Soul Action: Stuff

the durban blog...

The Soul Action blog has been taken over by the lovely Bowyer family. Phil, Rachel and young Zac are out in Durban, South Africa under the banner of Soul Action identifying projects, working with churches and just generally being Soul Action in South Africa.

We thought you'd find some of their experiences and reflections pretty interesting! So read on...

the latest video sessions...

David Westlake, Tim Hughes and a few others teach on on God & justice.
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ENTRY EIGHT:

Posted 3rd December
The last few months have been really busy. The Network of Christian projects that are serving the poor and marginalised that we’ve been building for the past year has really begun to gain some momentum. After meeting more than 100 projects working across the city, Rachel and I felt we needed to move things along by finding some creative ways of getting them all to see what we’ve seen.

As a start we decided to invite every project we’ve met to come together to set up ‘stalls’ using artefacts, photos, etc. to represent their work. Some projects brought huge stands, video and PowerPoint presentations, others brought pots of jam and wax drawings done by the children from their pre-school. In total over 100 people came along, representing some 50 projects - it was an amazing day! We began with worship – in both English and Zulu – and then Mike Pilavachi spoke on how a hero is someone who has the ability to hang on for a few seconds longer. It proved to be a real encouragement to people who for most of the time feel up against it as they seek to serve the poor and marginalised in our city.

After a time of prayer and ministry everyone was asked to spend five minutes at each stall, sharing, listening and engaging in what we decided to call ‘speed networking’.

The feedback we’ve received since has been extremely encouraging; it’s definitely something we’ll do again. For the past ten weeks we’ve also been running a course which looks at justice in the Bible and gives individuals the opportunity to visit and hear from some of the projects we’ve visited across the city. It’s proved to be an incredible opportunity to take a closer look at God’s heart for the poor in the Bible and to see this in action in the lives of Durban’s Christians.

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A few articles to get your teeth into. Stuff on poverty, justice, climate change and loads more... plus we'll regularly update them too!
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What about the radio?

Listen to some of these sessions on God's heart for justice, the Bible and local social action by some of those connected to Soul Action!
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