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Southern Africa – Acts 29
I remember when COVID 19 first landed in South Africa. I must confess that I was fearful and confused, and like everyone else in the world I was glued to...
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So, you are excited about planting a church. The vision is there. You’ve done your research. You know the place where you want to plant. You have the support of...
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For many church planters, raising funds is one of the hardest things they have to do. However, as difficult as fundraising can be, it is still necessary, and is actually...
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Introduction Ever since Christianity came to our shores, it was seen by many of our people as a foreign religion coming to replace African culture. What gave this claim even...
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In his book “Future Next”, John Sanei states that COVID-19 has changed the way the world works. “We must stop expecting to have certainty; there is no certainty out there,”....
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Rest Like A Child – Reflections from my first, but definitely not last, sabbatical. During the months of December 2020 to February 2021, I took a well-needed break –...
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In Part 2 of Episode 1, One goes into much more detail about where Acts 29 Southern Africa is headed. We hear about the “dream team” and get a sneak...
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One Mokgatle | A Sit Down with the Network Director As an introduction to our “Acts 29 Southern Africa: Healthy Churches Planting Healthy Churches” Podcast, we spoke to our Network...
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Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis and facing many challenges. In the early 2000s, the Government introduced an indigenisation law that compelled all foreign-owned companies to cede 51% of their...
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In light of the many things that have come to the fore over the last few weeks, I felt compelled to share some of my reflections as a Christian, white,...
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Discerning The Leading Of The Holy Spirit In Church Planting Church planting, pastoral ministry, and being a follower of Jesus is a lifelong pursuit of seeking to faithfully discern and...
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Adam Ramsey, One Mokgatle, Mario Maneville, Musa Ntinga and Tobie Meyer look closely at what God promises about his mission in the world and the challenges that come with it. Drawing from...
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Adam Ramsey, One Mokgatle, Mario Maneville, Musa Ntinga and Tobie Meyer look closely at what God promises about his mission in the world and the challenges that come with it. Drawing from...
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Diversity is the new watchword in church vision statements and five years plans, especially among church planters. Of course, diverse churches are crucial to overcoming the legacy of our past....
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It has been a real joy and encouragement to see a resurgence of robust and healthy theology, once again, being displayed within churches across the various denominational lines and movements...
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Southern Africa has an estimated population of nearly 300 million people and contains a diversity of languages, races, cultures and people groups. There is a great need in the...
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Diversity in the church, with everything that it means and implies and all the ways in which it should be manifested, is a hot and widely discussed topic at this...
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What do you do apart from ministry? How do you support yourself?” asked the enquirer when he found out that I was planting/pastoring a church. I have had to field...
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I can clearly remember the evening I responded to God’s pursuit for my heart. I was welcomed into the family of Jesus Christ with multiple hugs and many excited faces....
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True North Church (formerly known as Midrand Bible Church) was planted by BBC as a hybrid church plant – in other words, a cross between a site and an autonomous...
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It seems like yesterday when we said goodbye to friends and family in KZN to relocate to Cape Town for Musa to study theology. Although he enjoyed being a Civil...
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More Than… On Wednesday 11 April 2018, I spent “An Evening with Acts 29” at the New Hope School in Pretoria where a crowd gathered to explore the complex social...
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In October 2017, Acts 29 Southern Africa hosted Dr Tony Merida for a 1 day Expository Preaching Lab for preachers, teachers & preaching teams who want to develop their ability...
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In October 2017, Acts 29 Southern Africa hosted Dr Tony Merida for a 1 day Expository Preaching Lab for preachers, teachers & preaching teams who want to develop their ability...
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In October 2017, Acts 29 Southern Africa hosted Dr Tony Merida for a 1 day Expository Preaching Lab for preachers, teachers & preaching teams who want to develop their ability...
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In the first session of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference, Dr Tony Merida shares on how the Word and the ministry of the Word from the pulpit shapes...
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This is the 1st of the 3 “My Life as a Church Planter” sessions from the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference.
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In the 2nd session of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference, Femi Osunnuyi speaks about how the gospel must root all of our disciple making efforts. It saves, changes...
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Churches aren’t just planted by individuals but by family units who serve, sacrifice and support, often in invisible but costly ways. Confidence Mokgatle and Lalie Moraba have first hand experience...
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The temptation in kids and youth ministry is to see them as places of distraction and entertainment rather than avenues of disciple making. Charl van Wyk and Taryn Tomlinson have...
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This is the 2nd of the 3 “My Life as a Church Planter” sessions from the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference.
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In the 3rd session of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference, One Mokgatle speaks about how to create, nurture and multiply New Testament emulating, diverse, grace-filled communities of discipleship.
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This is the 3rd of the 3 “My Life as a Church Planter” sessions from the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference.
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In the 5th session of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference we explore how the multiplication of churches requires multiplication in churches. Pastor Oscar Muriu has decades of experience...
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In the 4th session of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference, Dr Tony Merida talks about how justice and mercy aren’t optional extras. They are logical outflows of a...
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In Breakout Session 3 of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference, Pastor Oscar Muriu spoke about how to create church communities where leader development is normative and effective.
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In Breakout Session 4 of the 2017 Acts 29 Southern Africa Conference, Badi Badibanga & Kevin Aldridge speak about how we build effective teams so that we have healthy shared pulpits...
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In our 6th and final session of the 2017 Southern Africa Conference, Ross Lester speaks about how the unstoppable gospel goes forward into the nations.
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The unifying power of the gospel is so clearly demonstrated in a place like Pretoria – with it’s stark history of racial segregation – through the planting of transcultural churches....
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South Africa is a country with a complex political and religious history, still living and breathing the effects of apartheid rule. Whilst living in the UK Johan Verster and Tobie Meyer both felt the...
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History teaches us that one of the main reasons for wartime success is the quantity and the quality of the soldiers who get deployed for battle. The same principle, of...
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In our attempt to plant a transcultural church in the city of Pretoria, I am often asked; why are you so passionate about this, so passionate that you would choose...
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For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility – Ephesians 2:14 It has been...
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In September 2015 Acts 29 Southern Africa was launched at the ‘Diverse City’ conference in Johannesburg. With over 130 people from 8 nations the conference was a great success. Pray for this...
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