News & Announcements

Audio material: 'The Five Solas' -- Biblical Worldview Conference

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  • January 28, 2012

Dr Steve Lawson (Christ Fellowship Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama) on The Five Solas at the Biblical Worldview Conference in Johannesburg on 14 January 2011: 'The very essence of the Gospel: Saved by grace through faith in Christ alone' -- download

Introduction to the 5 Solas (19.2 MB mp3)

Martin Luther quoted: 'If you understand justification by faith alone, you will understand 50 other doctrines...' -- download

Sola Fide (23.2 MB mp3)

The other two messages:

Sola Scriptura (21.8 MB mp3)

Soli Deo Gloria (19.9 MB mp3)

Earlier the week Dr Lawson spoke on Heroes of Church History.

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Annual Sola 5 Conference 2012

The 2012 Conference has been scheduled for

6 to 9 September 2012
in Manzini, Swaziland

Provisional theme:
Loving Christ in all of life

Manzini Fellowship Church is preparing to host the meeting.  More detail to follow in due course.

Issue 14 of the Sola 5 magazine available

Copies of Chronicles 14 were distributed at the recent conference in Livingstone.  Inquire at your Sola 5 member church to get hold of one.  Alternatively various hard copy formats are available via a download:

-- Consecutive A4 pages
      (900 kB PDF)

-- Booklet format
      (1.2 MB PDF)

Or, read some of the articles here...

Local church news & prayer letters

News from the Ravens (from Bloemfontein, South Africa)

NOVEMBER 2011

“Who is like the Lord our God, Who dwells on high, Who humbles Himself to behold the things that are in the heavens and in the earth?” (Ps 113:5-6)

Once again there has been a prolonged silence from our end.  The Lord has sustained us by His grace and much has happened since our previous newsletter in April.

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Download the newsletter in PDF format (407 kB)

The photo shows Richard sharing about the church plant in Bloemfontein (South Africa) at the recent Sola 5 conference in Livingstone.

Note: The letter from the Ravens embodies news about the church plant under the oversight and support of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Roodepoort (South Africa) where Richard Raven is also an elder.

The Heart of Goodwood Baptist Church – God's Word!

29 June 2011

Nothing worthwhile can ever be accomplished without Gods word preached and applied. We praise the Lord for the seed sown and every evidence of it bearing fruit—in individual lives, through our corporate gathering on Sundays and the small groups regularly meeting in the life of the church.

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Download a PDF in colour with photos (490 kB)

Kabwata Baptist Church Prayer Letter

May 2011

Dear brothers and sisters,

“Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.  Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ”  (Colossians 4:2-3, New Living Translation).

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News -- Antipas Church, Vereeniging (South Africa)

17 April 2011

Antipas Vereeniging was founded in July 1984 with Nico van der Walt as the first pastor.  When he left for Pretoria in 1999, Johannes de Koning was pastor until 2003.  In January 2005 Kobus van der Walt and his wife Jeanne joined our congregation.

Download a PDF of the newsletter with photos (218 kB)

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Praise and Thanks for the Lord's Lovingkindness at Robertson Reformed Community Church (RRCC) -- Robertson, South Africa

17 April 2011

A LETTER OF THANKSGIVING

Mark, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings.


Psalm 92: 1-2
“It is good to give thanks to the LORD
And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning
And Your faithfulness by night.”

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A Church Report on Fairview Reformed Baptist Church (FRBC) -- Mufulira, Zambia

31st March 2011

I bring you heartfelt greetings from myself and from the rest of the brethrens at FRBC.

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Report on Evangel Baptist Church (Lusaka, Zambia).

28 March 2011

This eldership report is presented on behalf of all the elders at EBC.  In this report we give you an idea of what has happened and our way forward from an eldership perspective.  Needless to say this covers events from January 2010 to December 2010.

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