Events & News (Page 17)

Gift of Blankets from Ballito NG church

Five ladies from the Ballito NG Family Church handed over a wonderful gift to Kwasizabantu on 15 May 2013. These ladies, under the inspiration of Mrs Venter and Mrs Small, have been crocheting blankets and other items, for many months. Since they visited in winter last year, and noticed how cold it was in the…

Cedar College Graduation 2013

On 10 May the official graduation ceremony was held of the 2012 graduates of Cedar College of Education. Professors from North-West University Potchefstroom bestowed the degrees. Prof Barry Richter was the main speaker. He also announced the NWU is to confer a special award on Rev Erlo Stegen at it’s doctoral graduation on 23 May…

International Visitors from India and the Congo

We are privileged to have visitors from overseas throughout the year. In the last week they included a group of 20 from central Africa and a group from South India, Andrapradesh. Pastor Deevanaiah from Holy Ministries in India addressed 4 meetings and gave 2 Radio Khwezi interviews. Rev Stegen had preached twice a day at…

New Venture for Orphans in Eastern Cape

Kwasizabantu has recently taken over the running of an orphan project, school and farm in the Eastern Cape. Situated just 10km from the East London airport this project, called Daily Bread, has been running for some years under the leadership of very dedicated staff. The orphanage and school are situated on about 110 hectares of…

New Giant Hothouse Begins

The first sweet-pepper plants were officially planted by Rev Erlo Stegen on Monday 11th of February 2013. This giant hothouse (4 hectares in size) is fully operational in the first quarter (containing nearly 40,000 plants) and the next quarter is now ready for planting. All in all, the hothouse has the potential to produce many…

Dining Tent Goes Up

The new tent donated from KSB Switzerland is being erected just before the Ministers’ Conference 2013 as the dining-room for the conference. It was used for the first time at Kwasizabantu on 21 December 2012 for a Christmas Celebration. It takes the co-workers a few days to erect because of the exact measurements needed for…

Christmas Celebration 2012

A tent from Europe was erected at Kwasizabantu Mission for the first time on 21 December 2012. For many years it served audiences who attended Kwasizabantu conferences in Europe. They now have halls for bigger audiences and have donated the tent to the mission in South Africa. About 800 people were seated around tables at…

KwaSizabantu Youth Conference December 2012

15 December, 7pm: The film, Pilgrim’s Progress, was shown. (This was officially the last service but services continued on Saturday and Sunday for those waiting for transport.) 15 December, 3pm: Umphakathi young people shared and there was discussion and questions with the audience. 14 December, 10am: Rev Erlo Stegen spoke from Zech 3: 1 –…

Cedar College Closes for 2012

CCE closed on 16th November for the year. It was also a time of saying goodbye to the 4th year students (10 in all). On Sunday 11 November the students sang for the mission and Rafiki gave a farewell speech on behalf of the 4th year students. The 4th year students had an outreach at…