This article traces the life and times of Christoph Sandrock (1845–1930), a missionary with the Berlin Mission Society, during the Anglo Boer War at Springfontein in the southern Free State, South Africa. Based mainly ...

In this article the process of unification within the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM of SA) is described, using the minutes from the different councils of the respective Sections of the AFM and the reminiscences ...

This article will examine how the World Council of Churches (WCC) has carved its historical mission and influence in the African Independent Churches (AICs), through the Organization of African Independent Churches (OAIC) ...

Self-supporting ministry has been accepted by ELCSA (the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa) and should, therefore, be seen as a ministry that, together with full-time ministry, can contribute to the welfare ...

This research article examines the validity of Berger’s statement (Berger, 1999:2) that the assumption that we live in a secularised world is false (Berger is a sociologist of religion). Berger’s statement was followed ...

From the time of its inception in 1869, the Moravian Church in South Africa was divided into two provinces along ethnic lines. As the church is the “body of Jesus Christ,” which confesses the one Lord, who has one faith ...