Events & News (Page 21)

Mission College Expansion

Since the foundation of Cedar College of Education in the early ’90s, God has faithfully given growth. The current female student hostel is far too small and many were turned away this year due to the lack of sufficient accommodation. On completion, the new hostel will be able to accommodate 90 students together with flats…

Youth Weekend at Mozambique Mission

A wonderful turnout and great blessings were experienced at a recent youth weekend held in Mozambique. A more central place was hired for the weekend, at Cacia in Gaza Province. The camp site is about 400km south of the Kwasizabantu centre in Inyambane Province. A number of co-workers & preachers joined Carlos, (including S. Khumalo,…

Abundant Onion Harvest at Tugela Mission

Deep down in the Tugela valley a treasure was found amongst the people at “Maqhogo”. This very rural area was recently given over to Kwasizabantu Mission to continue with the former work of a Canadian missionary couple. Community involvement projects mushroomed almost overnight. One of the main focuses is agricultural development. Heavy machines have been…

Provision of Food for Local Community

Of the most important projects at Kwasizabantu Mission is growing food! The mission does not do fundraising and has concentrated on seeking the Lord in prayer for all needs, and at the same time, doing “with our might what our hands find to do” (as is so apt in the Hymn “To the work…”. A…

Christmas Carols Evening 2009

This year we could have the Christmas Carols Evening, in the new Auditorium, on Saturday night, 21 November. Various choirs and a few “skits” were presented, followed by a devotion for the occasion. The audience participated in singing well-known carols, in English and Zulu.

First Large Scale Visit from KwaSizabantu to Maqhogo

Erlo Stegen, director of Kwasizabantu Mission, arranged for KSB staff and helpers to visit the new Maqhogo mission. This new mission opportunity is placed close to the Tugela river (the largest river in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal). Two large buses as well as other vehicles arrived late morning on the 17th November 2009. It was…

Opening of Kwasizabantu Free State Branch

On Saturday, 12 September 2009, the dream came true for a new KSB centre in the Free State Province of South Africa. Pastor Gideon Jacobs and his co-workers have long been praying for another centre for KwaSizabantu’s ministry in the Free State. The ministry will also continue in the existing centre in Smithfield. The official…

DSS Sports Day

Every year DSS has a Sports Day. It is mostly a time of fun for the children, teachers and parents. The more serious part is qualifying for the next round which a competition between various Christian Schools. There are two sports teams (or, “houses”), Murray and Morris (both Andrew Murray and Samuel Morris were Africans…

KwaSizabantu Youth Conference July 2009

The theme is: “God makes all things new”, and in Zulu, “Uwenza konke kube kusha”. This is a fitting theme in two ways. Firstly, it gives hope that the Lord can recreate messed up lives and make them completely new. Secondly, it is the first Youth Conference in the new Auditorium which was recently reconstructed…

Outreach to Namibia

A team is returning from a very blessed trip to Namibia. As the journey by bus takes 3 days, the 19 seater and 8 seater buses left the Mission on Thursday 28 May. They had 2 overnight breaks, the first at the Snymans farm (Lichtenburg) and the second with Dr Francois Louw’s family in ;