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Explore in West Africa
The first GWC Explore facilitator training to be held in West Africa took place in Akropong, Akupem Ridge in Ghana in March. African Enterprise (AE) hosted the event with 28 delegates from AE partner...
Ravi Zacharias’ Global Evangelists’ Forum Southern Africa
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries South Africa, held their Global Evangelists’ Forum Southern Africa at Hatfield Christian Church, Pretoria in February, with approximately 300 delegates –...
The Broughton Knox Study Centre – at the heart of GWC
GWC’s library, housed in the Broughton Knox Study Centre, currently holds approximately 66000 volumes, which are constantly weeded and added to in accordance with the specialist study needs of GWC...
Faculty represent GWC at the Society of Biblical Literature conference
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is one of the premier scholarly communities in the world, engaging in research on the Bible and theology. Each year the international conference draws nearly...
Reflections on the Johannesburg Bible College conference
Towards the end of January, faculty member Rev Phumezo Masango was privileged to be invited to speak at the annual Johannesburg Bible College Conference. The Conference, held at JBC’s Soweto and...
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...