SERMON TOPIC: The missing blue thread
BY: Michael Sischy ON: 10 October 2021
Sermon synopsis: The missing blue thread in the prayer shawl.
SERMON TOPIC: Missiology
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 25 May 2021
Sermon synopsis: God has not commanded us to go into “most of the world”, but into “all the world”. Despite Jesus’ command to evangelize, almost one third of the world’s population (28%) – 1 in 3 people - have never.....
SERMON TOPIC: Wycliffe Bible Translators in SA
BY: Johanna Pillinger ON: 7 July 2019
Sermon synopsis: Bible Translation is at the core of who Wycliffe are. We want to see God’s Word alive in every language, transforming lives and communities in this generation.
Almost one third of the world's.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 5 - Trends and opportunities
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 18 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: Jesus gave the Great Commission 2000 years ago, what’s happened since?
“With the explosion of the church in the Southern Hemisphere, we must ask, does the church of the Lord Jesus Christ still.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 7 - Trends and opportunities
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 26 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: TREND 1: MIGRATION
In the past you had to go to a foreign country to be a missionary to other people groups. Now many of those people groups are coming to us. “Go into all the world” includes.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 6 - Trends and opportunities - HIV-AIDS
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 29 July 2018
Sermon synopsis: HIV-AIDS is a pandemic that is ravaging families, communities and entire nations. Since the start of the epidemic around 78 million have become infected with HIV and 35 million people have died of.....
SERMON TOPIC: MISSIONS- The prototype Christian church
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 22 July 2018
Sermon synopsis: Acts 11:26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
But what were the traits of this prototype church in Antioch where Christians first received their name? Amongst other things,.....
SERMON TOPIC: i4118 Foundation
BY: Des Burrows ON: 24 June 2018
Sermon synopsis: Presentation on the work of the i4118 Foundation.
SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 4 February 2018
Sermon synopsis: Evangelism is the commitment to or act of preaching the Gospel with the intention of spreading the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
SERMON TOPIC: The only hope for peace
BY: Michael Sischy ON: 14 November 2017
Sermon synopsis: The only hope for peace was born in the Middle East.
Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful.....
SERMON TOPIC: Here Am I, Send Me
BY: Nico Bougas ON: 25 September 2017
Sermon synopsis: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
Isaiah 6.8
SERMON TOPIC: The Holy Spirit in Missions
BY: Julio Da Silva ON: 29 May 2017
Sermon synopsis: Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
SERMON TOPIC: Hellenic Ministries
BY: Steve Dutton ON: 1 May 2016
Sermon synopsis: Feedback on the work of Hellenic Ministries in Greece.
SERMON TOPIC: Exhortation from Scottish missionaries
BY: John Tait ON: 24 April 2016
Sermon synopsis: John 19:16-27 (KJV) Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull,.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Christmas Story
BY: Nik Ripken ON: 10 October 2015
Sermon synopsis: The Christmas story in Matthew 1-2 from the perspective of the persecuted church.
Nik and Ruth Ripken are veteran overseas workers for 30 years. During those years they have served in the.....
SERMON TOPIC: The parable of the banquet
BY: Lindsey Parker ON: 4 October 2015
Sermon synopsis: Luke 14:15 When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
16 Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part3b - Global trends (cont)
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 13 September 2015
Sermon synopsis: So what are some of the global trends we are seeing in today’s world? How do these present challenges or opportunities for us to advance and complete the Great Commission?
- Positive trends in.....
SERMON TOPIC: Passion for souls
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 23 August 2015
Sermon synopsis: When William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was asked by the king of England what the ruling force of his life was, he replied, “Sir, some men’s passion is for gold, other men’s passion is.....
SERMON TOPIC: Passion for souls - Part 2
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 10 August 2015
Sermon synopsis: While hiding in a cave from his enemies, David cries in despair that “no man cared for my soul” (Psalm 142:4)
Today too there are millions of people in the world whose souls it seems no one cares.....
SERMON TOPIC: Last words of Jesus - The great commission
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 12 July 2015
Sermon synopsis: When someone is about to leave us (e.g. death or a departure to a faraway land), the last words they speak are ones that they consider to be the most important. There’s no time for wasted words when.....
SERMON TOPIC: Missions
BY: Andy Barnard ON: 28 June 2015
Sermon synopsis: The importance and the true purpose of missions as seen throughout the Bible.
SERMON TOPIC: Our Mission
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 21 June 2015
Sermon synopsis: Let me introduce my message today with two questions.
1) Do you consider yourself a true Christian, meaning "a Disciple of Christ Jesus" who is compelled by God's love to do his will?
2) What is.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 3- Global trends
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 June 2015
Sermon synopsis: If current patterns continue, the unreached will still be 23-28% of the world’s population in 2025 (Stan Park, Ethne '06). So how should we approach missions and evangelism? Should we just keep on.....
SERMON TOPIC: Greek culture and the Bible
BY: Iakovos Nikolopoulos ON: 1 March 2015
Sermon synopsis: Have you ever wondered why the New Testament was written in Greek even though it's authors were predominantly Jewish? Iakovos Nikolopoulos, a tour guide from Greece, talks about the impact of Greek.....
SERMON TOPIC: Greece 2014 Vision Tour
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 23 November 2014
Sermon synopsis: Feedback from Ken, Bev, Brenda and Lynne on the Greece 2014 Vision Tour with Hellenic Ministries.
SERMON TOPIC: The four lepers of Samaria
BY: Graham Sahling ON: 16 November 2014
Sermon synopsis: 2 Kings 7:3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there,.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 2 - Uneven distribution of resources
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 29 June 2014
Sermon synopsis: There is enough evangelistic activity to reach the whole world.
Enough activity for every one in the world to hear a 1-hour presentation of the Gospel every other day all year long.
Over 1,43.....
SERMON TOPIC: True religion
BY: Candice Towndrow ON: 22 June 2014
Sermon synopsis: James 1:26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as.....
SERMON TOPIC: Last words of Jesus - The great commission
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 15 June 2014
Sermon synopsis: When someone is about to leave us (e.g. death or a departure to a faraway land), the last words they speak are ones that they consider to be the most important.
There’s no time for wasted words.....
SERMON TOPIC: What makes good soil
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 25 May 2014
Sermon synopsis: A Christian who does not bear fruit for the kingdom is not good soil. You cannot say “I am good soil” when you haven’t produced any harvest. In the parable of the sower Jesus said:
Matt 13:23.....
SERMON TOPIC: The scattering of the church
BY: Mark Hodgetts ON: 24 May 2014
Sermon synopsis: It took Acts 8:1 to fulfill Acts 1:8.
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Hellenic Ministries
BY: Nico Bougas ON: 12 May 2014
Sermon synopsis: Greece was one of the first countries that the apostle Paul evangelized in response to the call from the Macedonian man in a vision. But 2000 years later Greece is again in desperate need of.....
SERMON TOPIC: ANTIOCH - The prototype Christian church
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 15 February 2014
Sermon synopsis: Acts 11:26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
As Antioch was the place where followers of Jesus were first named “Christians”, the name by which we are still called today,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Global Evangelism Mission
BY: Joseph Mpakanyane ON: 30 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: Joseph shares on the work of GEM (Global Evangelism Mission) in Lesotho. Also a brief look at the parable of the talents and what we can learn from it.
SERMON TOPIC: God can use anyone
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 23 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: Former shoe salesman, D.L. Moody said,
“If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent. After all, there are comparatively few people.....
SERMON TOPIC: Reaching the functionally illerate
BY: Ron Free ON: 17 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: A look at the challenges of reaching those who are functionally illiterate for Christ.
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Intro
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Erica Grunewald
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 1
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 3
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 4
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Erica Grunewald.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 5
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 2
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai
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Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 6
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and.....
SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 7
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speakers: Candice Towndrow & Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me;.....
SERMON TOPIC: How To Invest Your Life
BY: Steve Dutton ON: 14 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Matthew 25:14-30
"Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to.....
SERMON TOPIC: Testimony
BY: Ilias Tsartsampalidis ON: 10 March 2013
Sermon synopsis: Ilias and his wife Nelly are involved with Hellenic Ministries in Greece. Hellenic Ministries is committed to proclaiming the gospel through direct and indirect evangelism and missions, primarily in.....
SERMON TOPIC: Our responsibility to the poor
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 3 March 2013
Sermon synopsis: In the world today, more than 6 billion people live. If this world were shrunk to the size of a village of 100 people, what would it look like?
Of the 100 people in this village - 20 are.....
SERMON TOPIC: Womens World Day of Prayer
BY: Lynne van Wyk ON: 1 March 2013
Sermon synopsis: The 2013 Women's World Day of Prayer with it's focus on France.
SERMON TOPIC: Becoming a devoted follower of Jesus
BY: Missions ON: 4 November 2012
Sermon synopsis: Will you still serve Jesus if, like Job, you: (1) lost your money (2) had death in the family (3) lost your health (4) were lonely?
Job 1:20-22 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his.....
SERMON TOPIC: Mission Shaped Communications
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 27 July 2012
Sermon synopsis: Isa 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Healthcare Christian Fellowship
BY: HCF ON: 24 June 2012
Sermon synopsis: Mark 16:15 (KJV) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Ps 142:4 (KJV) I looked on my right hand, and beheld , but there was no man that would.....
SERMON TOPIC: The prototype Christian church (Missionary church)
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 17 June 2012
Sermon synopsis: Followers of Jesus were known by some as the “Nazarene sect” (Acts 24:5).
At the time of Stephen’s martyrdom, Christianity was referred to as “the Way” (Acts 9:1-2)
But the disciples were first.....
SERMON TOPIC: Cambodia
BY: Candice Towndrow ON: 6 November 2011
Sermon synopsis: Feedback on Candice's mission trip to Cambodia and the Philippines.
SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 24 July 2011
Sermon synopsis: Often people ask, "What prophetic event remains unfulfilled to prevent the return of Jesus?"
Well consider this prophecy by Jesus.
In Matthew 24:14, speaking prophetically Jesus said that "this.....
SERMON TOPIC: Missions and ministry
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 3 July 2011
Sermon synopsis: A look at the importance of "works of service" in the light of missions and ministry.
Ephesians 4:11-12 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to.....
SERMON TOPIC: Ezekiel 47
BY: Candice Towndrow ON: 3 April 2011
Sermon synopsis: Ezekiel 47:1 The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was.....
SERMON TOPIC: Solving community problems
BY: Costa Mitchell ON: 6 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
Costa Mitchell is the national director of the Association of Vineyard Churches in South Africa.
SERMON TOPIC: Our mission
BY: Costa Mitchell ON: 6 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
Costa Mitchell is the national director of the Association of Vineyard Churches in South Africa.
SERMON TOPIC: Mercy Actions
BY: Julio Da Silva ON: 5 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
SERMON TOPIC: God's heart for the lost
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 19 September 2010
Sermon synopsis: Psalm 50:16 But to the wicked, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? 17 You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you. 18 When you see a thief,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Missions
BY: Rudi Korda ON: 1 August 2010
Sermon synopsis: Matt 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord,.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Unfinished Task
BY: Louis Blom ON: 25 July 2010
Sermon synopsis: Every year… 36.4 million …people die without Christ. The 10/40 Window has:
- 65% of the world’s population.
- 90% of the world’s poorest.
- 95% those unreached by Christian witness.
The.....
SERMON TOPIC: The disobedient church
BY: Missions ON: 18 April 2010
Sermon synopsis: (1) THE COMMAND
(2) THE CONCERN
(3) THE CAUSE &
(4) THE CURE
SERMON TOPIC: Beautiful Gate
BY: Ray Haakonsen ON: 21 June 2009
Sermon synopsis: Ray shares his testimony of how God led him from being a fighter pilot in the Rhodesian army to ultimately founding and operating the “Beautiful Gate” care centre in Lesotho for abandoned.....
SERMON TOPIC: The power of the Holy Spirit - "Dunamis"
BY: Louis Blom ON: 6 June 2009
Sermon synopsis: Louis Blom gives feedback from Judea Harvest. 1000 tents set up, 10000 crusades, 4500 churches planted, 65 churches planted in India.
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit.....
SERMON TOPIC: Kinross Mission School
BY: Chris Jordan ON: 14 April 2009
Sermon synopsis: CHALLENGES
- There is no running water or toilets at the school
- There is no electricity
- Classes are overcrowded
- Over 100 children on the waiting list
- For some children this is their.....
SERMON TOPIC: The kingdom of God - 6C - Missions
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 14 December 2008
Sermon synopsis: What are the characteristics of those who keep the "Great Commission" of Jesus? The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. So how will they hear the gospel unless we respond to the call - to.....
SERMON TOPIC: The kingdom of God - 6B - MISSIONS
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 9 November 2008
Sermon synopsis: What is the "Great Commission" that Jesus gave and what are the excuses that Christians use for not keeping it?
(1) Calvinist fatalism,
(2) It’s a big sacrifice,
(3) You might suffer,
(4) I’m.....
SERMON TOPIC: Missions
BY: Candice Towndrow ON: 31 August 2008
Sermon synopsis: Jer 17:5 This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 He will be like a bush in the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Missions in Taiwan
BY: Daniel Hughes ON: 24 August 2008
Sermon synopsis: Daniel and Arlene Hughes share on the ministry to the Hakka people in Taiwan.
SERMON TOPIC: God uses the things man despises
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 6 July 2008
Sermon synopsis: Just as David used 5 stones to defeat Goliath, so God uses 5 things to defeat Satan. He uses:
(1) the foolish things,
(2) the weak things,
(3) the lowly things,
(4) the despised things AND
(5).....
SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 26 August 2007
Sermon synopsis: 4 lepers went out from a city that was starving and found food, but while they were feasting they said “What we are doing is not right”.
In like manner, the gospel is one beggar telling another.....
SERMON TOPIC: Being a witness
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 3 September 2005
Sermon synopsis: We are not all evangelists, but we are all called to be witnesses.
SERMON TOPIC: Testimony
BY: Eileen Beggs ON: 14 November 1999
Sermon synopsis: Testimony of an Irish missionary to Zimbabwe, the Seychelles and South Africa. Eileen and her husband used to fellowship with the Roodepoort Assemblies of God Fellowship while in South Africa.
SERMON TOPIC: Prison Ministry in Madagascar
BY: Dot Oosthuizen ON: 26 May 1996
Sermon synopsis: Dot Oosthuizen shares about how the Lord opened the doors for her to minster to prisoners in Madagascar.
SERMON TOPIC: The 4 Ms for churches of tomorrow
BY: David Wong ON: 17 June 1995
Sermon synopsis: David Wong from the Pentecostal Mission in Hong Kong speaks on the “M’s” that are required for the church of the 21st century to remain relevant. They are not Methodology, Money and.....
SERMON TOPIC: Helping the poor aged folk
BY: Irene Ntintile ON: 14 February 1994
Sermon synopsis: Irene shares about her work helping the poor old folk in Soweto.
SERMON TOPIC: Testimony - Radio Broadcast
BY: W.F.P. Burton ON: 2 January 1969
Sermon synopsis: W F P Burton (aka Willie Burton) was born in 1886 and began pioneer missionary work in the Congo (now Zaire) in 1915. When he moved from the mission field 50 years later his work had grown into.....
SERMON TOPIC: Testimony
BY: W.F.P. Burton ON: 16 September 1968
Sermon synopsis: Testimony of famous Congo missionary W.F.P. Burton.
SERMON TOPIC: Taking South Africa for God
BY: Nicholas Bhengu ON: 6 March 1955
Sermon synopsis: An article in the March 1955 Pentecostal Evangel by Nicholas Bhengu on "Taking South Africa for God."
SERMON TOPIC: Through Gates of Splendour
BY: Jim Elliot ON: 30 December 1950
Sermon synopsis: Quest for the Aucas. The Spiritual Legacy of 5 Missionary Martyrs. Rachel Saints last interview.
SERMON TOPIC: Our Journey
BY: Mike Oosthuizen ON:
Sermon synopsis: Mike and Christine Oosthuizen went from the Brakpan Assembly as missionaries with WEC. On a visit to Brakpan, Mike recounts their journey.
SERMON TOPIC: A missionary remembers
BY: Gertrude Kast ON:
Sermon synopsis: A book written in 1973 with the memoirs of missionary Gertrude Elizabeth Kast, wife of August Kast. The Kasts were missionaries at the Mount Tabor Mission in Lesotho.
SERMON TOPIC: What mean ye by these stones
BY: W.F.P. Burton ON:
Sermon synopsis: BOOK: Bible talks on the Lord's table.
SERMON TOPIC: Missionary pioneering in Congo forests
BY: W.F.P. Burton ON:
Sermon synopsis: Missionary pioneering in Congo forests : a narrative of the labours of William F.P. Burton and his companions in the native villages of Luba-Land (1922).
Burton (1886–1971) was a British.....