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GWC welcomes Drs Dick and Caroline Seed
GWC is pleased to welcome Drs Dick and Caroline Seed to the College under the auspices of Church Mission Society (UK) and in association with OCA’s Africa Mile Deep programme. Their key areas of...
The impact of Children’s Ministry training at Trinity Church Mitchell’s Plain
This year we were delighted, as a church, to send two home-grown students to GWC to train in Children’s Ministry. Children’s ministry worker, Emmanuel, says, “I am learning how to run children’s...
‘Explore the Bible’ taught in French in the Democratic Republic of Congo
GWC Master’s student, Raphael Mukanya and Bishop Martin Morrison from Christ Church, Midrand visited Bukavu in the DRC in July 2018 to teach the Explore material to a growing church. With French...
Visiting Old Testament scholar, Dr John H. Walton, sets GWC abuzz
GWC welcomed Old Testament scholar, Dr John Walton, for a week in August this year. Both our undergraduates and postgraduates were stimulated to think in new ways about how we can escape our own...
‘Explore’ training reaches African Honey Bee in Kwambonambi
An unusual alliance between GWC and African Honey Bee led to the remote town of Kwambonambi, north of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal where group leaders, who are being trained by African Honey Bee...
The Hope Motlhope Student Centre set to impact residential learning
The Hope Motlhope Student Centre was officially opened in August by the present and former principals of the College, Dr Mark Dickson and Dr David Seccombe. This new development represents a...
Principal Matters
Dear Friends, Since the last newsletter a number of important events have occurred. In June, I attended GAFCON in Jerusalem. The conference itself revealed a significant deepening of a commitment to...
Dr Ashley Null inspires and encourages GWC’s postgraduate students
In May, GWC had the great privilege of hosting visiting lecturer, Rev Canon Dr Ashley Null. Dr Null is not only an internationally respected scholar on the English Reformation, he also applies the...
The 95 Theses Re-Written
The 95 Theses Re-Written Stephen Rockwell, GWC Faculty, Biblical Studies, New Testament, Greek BSc Hons 1st Class (Sydney), LTh, BTh (GWC), MTh (Moore) The 31st of October, 2017 marked the...
Dealing with Deuteronomy
Dealing with Deuteronomy Bradley Trout, GWC ERF (Evangelical Research Fellowship) PhD student “Amazingly… I do not recall hearing one sermon on [Deuteronomy] over my seventy years of...
Romans 13
Romans 13 John Child, GWC lecturer, Christian Doctrine; Ethics; Pastoral Studies BA (Rhodes), Dip Th (BISA), BD Hons (London), MTh (UNISA). Paul began speaking about love in Romans 12:9: Love must...
Lesotho Mission Trip DAY 3 #SheepMadness #MadnessMultiplied
Lesotho Mission Trip DAY 3 #SheepMadness #MadnessMultiplied Michaela Maree GWC Bachelor of Theology Student Now. Today. Day 3 of the Lesotho Mission Trip. As I mentioned in my first blog about...
Romans 12
Romans 12 John Child, GWC lecturer, Christian Doctrine; Ethics; Pastoral Studies BA (Rhodes), Dip Th (BISA), BD Hons (London), MTh (UNISA). 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view...
Are you in a battle with Satan?
Are YOU in a battle with Satan? Len Ritchie GWC Master of Theology Student Most of us in the modern West think of evil as something that exists within humanity. We see evil in individuals who...
Equal but different in Christ
Equal but different in Christ Dr Mark Dickson, GWC Principal, Biblical Hebrew, Philosophy BSc (Major: Physics)(UCT), Dip Th (BISA), MA (NWU) The Bible is made up of 66 books but is the single...
We Will Proclaim Christ Faithfully To The Nations
We Will Proclaim Christ Faithfully To The Nations The Rt Rev Glenn Lyons, REACH-SA Presiding Bishop This was the rallying cry of GAFCON 2018 and it surely captured the essence of a week that saw...
Bridging the gap between kids, church and the law
Bridging the gap between kids, church and the law Niki Hodson, Children's Ministry BA (English & Drama) UCT, BA Hons (Psychology) (Cornerstone) At the end of last year, I attended a conference...
Inxeba and the Customary Initiation Bill: A necessary reflection to be had
Inxeba and the Customary Initiation Bill: A necessary reflection to be had Phumezo Masango, GWC Faculty, Church History, Practical Theology, New Testament BTh (NWU) In recent months we have...
Explore Correspondence Course Takes Root and Grows in Uganda
The Explore team trained 40 facilitators in Uganda in November 2017 who formed the core of the approximately 250 delegates who attended a training conference in February 2018. Clergy, pastors and...
The Escalating Need for Theological Training in Tanzania
The church in Tanzania is growing and is in need of leadership, direction, and discernment with regard to ministry. It is a massive and ongoing need. Young people are coming to faith and are led to...