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ICETE conference tackles theological education across Africa
In October 2018, GWC faculty member Dr Vuyani Sindo attended the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE) Triennial conference in Panama City, Panama, which hosted around...
Lessons learned in creating your own cross- cultural children’s ministry curriculum
When writing your own curriculum for cross-cultural missions to children, it is wise to keep in mind that the most important goal of the exercise is to help children get to know God better, and to...
What is Women’s Ministry?
Ministry to women is fundamentally Word ministry. Here at GWC we teach the Bible to women so that they would ‘be transformed by the renewing of their minds’ (Rom 12:3). We endeavour to raise up...
GWC Alumni – spreading the Gospel
George Whitefield College was pleased to be able to graduate twenty-three students from our accredited programmes and thirty-one Explore students at our graduation ceremony at the end of 2018. While...
GWC Matriculation 2019
GWC held its annual matriculation service on 14th March. This event marks the formal entry of new students and faculty into the academic fellowship of the College. Every matriculant’s name is...
Principal Matters
The first quarter of the year has seen much progress for the College, both here in Muizenberg as well outside of South Africa. Locally speaking, our larger than usual group of first years have shown...
Living in Hope
Our students are enjoying living in the new Hope Motlhope Student Centre. “I live in single female accommodation on the second floor of the Hope Centre”, says second year BTh student, Amanda...
The African Enterprise Partnership in Kampala
Explore Open Day in Kampala A case study between AE Uganda and GWC commenced in November 2017 with the training of 42 facilitators in Kampala in preparation for the African Evangelistic Enterprise...
Romans 14
Romans 14 John Child, GWC lecturer, Christian Doctrine; Ethics; Pastoral Studies BA (Rhodes), Dip Th (BISA), BD Hons (London), MTh (UNISA). One of the main reasons Paul wrote Romans was to address...
Sowing Gospel Seeds in Soweto
Q&A with alumnus, Musawenkosi Ntinga, head pastor of Christ Central Soweto Q: What led to the planting of Christ Central Soweto? A: The idea of Christ Central Soweto was born from a desire by...
Seeds for Hope – Legacy and Bequest Giving
GWC’s legacy and bequest programme is named Seeds for Hope. The ‘seeds’ represent the gospel message planted by our alumni as they communicate the gospel throughout Africa and across the world. The...
Lesotho Ministry Week 2018
A seventeen-member strong missions team from GWC and St Peter’s Church, Fish Hoek, headed by Ross Anderson and comprising mostly GWC students, spent a week in Lesotho over the September break,...
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...