Category: Breaking News

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Hope in a COVID Siege

We, in South Africa, have just ended our first week of a national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a world, we are under siege and experiencing it in real-time like no generation before us. As this siege crept towards us inexorably and a lockdown was announced, my social media news feeds were...

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Locked Down, not Locked Out

Around the country, churches are being called on to open their doors as Care Centres to the vulnerable, to those who are unable to self-isolate due to high-density living areas, to healthcare workers who need rest between shifts somewhere near their workplace, and as community testing and collection & distribution sites. With the need for...

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Love = Physical Distancing + Social Solidarity

To our dear community At this time of heightened awareness of our global connectivity, we are deeply grateful for groups of people across the world and in the neighbourhoods around us, whose hearts have been knitted together by love for God, each other and our neighbours.  We have considered when and what to communicate in...

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Cape Town Refugee Crisis

There is a crisis involving refugees in the City Bowl area that has resulted in a large number of people being sheltered at churches. Central Methodist Church, St Georges Cathedral and the Groote Kerk are directly involved and need your support. We are partnering with the RESPOND Coalition More Than Peace who are involved with...

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Investing in church catalysed social change

In these uncertain times where injustice, oppression and corruption seem to be ascendant, do you yearn to see Jesus’ church living out the peace and justice of God for the world in more sustained and effective ways?  We do, and we’d like to invite you to consider investing in that possibility by financially supporting the...

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Giving Guidelines in response to a disaster.

The following are some practical tips and points to consider when considering what to donate in response to a disaster incident. More than anything only give what is being asked for by those who are making the appeal. Don’t be fooled into thinking that giving something is better than giving nothing. Nothing is in fact...

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Art, Faith and Burden

Zach Stewart is a talented artist and deep thinker whose work explores topics such as whiteness, colonisation, lament, faith, justice and humanity — among other things. Zach matriculated at the end of last year and his final matric art project (of which the pieces included here are part) explored the topic ‘burden’. We asked Zach...

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June 2019: Looking to the Youth

Remembering an advocate of children The past few weeks have been a difficult time for us as The Warehouse community. On the 26th of May, after being diagnosed with end-stage liver cancer just a month before, our dear sister, friend, and colleague of over eight years – Ntombi Tshingilane – passed away. Our hearts are...

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May 2019: What Would Jesus Vote (Part 2)

In its welfare, you will find your welfare “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare” Jeremiah 29:7 The context into which this instruction was given was no doubt different from ours...