A field of a million prayers
They were called and they came, a million people from every corner of South Africa. They gathered on April 22, 2017, in an expanse of field near Bloemfontein for the largest prayer meeting the country had ever seen. “[Bloemfontein] is the centre, or the heart, of the nation,” said organizer Angus Buchan as the event…
Challenged, changed, rewarded
My partner Suzanne Braun and I spent three years as Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) service workers in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho from 2011-14. As the connecting peoples coordinator and planning, monitoring and evaluation coordinator, we worked to support a wide variety of MCC partner organizations throughout the SwaLeSA area. Much of what we did…
The alternative method of God
One thing that I find so inspiring in South Africa is the countless people who participate in miraculous activities as they strive to make their communities better. In working for the Anabaptist Network in South Africa, my wife and I have the honour of meeting different people all around the country and listening to the…
