2006 Annual Conference



    Five churches welcomed as full members of Sola 5

    At the recent Annual Business Meeting of Sola 5 the applications for full membership of the following churches were approved:
    1. Eastside Baptist Church (Windhoek, Namibia)
    2. Goodwood Baptist Church (Cape Town, South Africa)
    3. Kraaifontein Baptist Church (Cape Town, SA)
    4. Mount Zion Baptist Church (Alice, SA)
    5. Roberston Reformed Community Church (Robertson, SA)
    They are most warmly welcomed into the Sola 5 association of churches.   It is our prayer that the Lord will use them richly in His kingdom.

    For more details regarding the leadership of the churches, addresses, etc, go to the link "Membership details."


    Abstract of the sermon by Laban Mwashekele, September the 2nd 2006

    The theme

    (as we all know) is “the Glory of Christ and His Bride, which I sub-themed as “the unsearchable riches in Christ” (see 3:8c)

    Introduction

    In the text entrusted to me, namely Ephesians Chapter 3, the apostle Paul begins with a statement in 3:1: “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus ...


    The second Sola 5 Conference and Annual Business Meeting took place in Windhoek, Namibia from 31 August to 2 September 2006 at Eastside Baptist Church.  More than 200 people from all over southern Africa registered to attend the Conference.  Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Zambia were represented.

    Theme

    The theme of the Conference was “The glory of Christ in his bride in Ephesians.”  Six speakers expounded the letter, each addressing a chapter.  Bruce Button (Antipas Reformed Baptist Church, Pretoria), Christo Beetge (Brackenhurst Baptist Church, Alberton), Laban Mwashekele (Evangelical Baptist Mission, Windhoek), Roland Eskinazi (Goodwood Baptist Church, Cape Town), Doug van Meter (Brackenhurst Baptist Church), and Ronald Kalifungwa (Lusaka Baptist Church) were finally followed by Nico van der Walt (Antipas Reformed Baptist Church, Pretoria), closing the Conference in the seventh and final session.  Readers will find abstracts of most of the sermons in this edition of the Chronicles (the remaining ones are scheduled to appear in the next issue).