News and Updates

Bishop Alan’s trip to Klerksdorp 13th to 16th January 2012 Bishop Alan Kenyon-Hoare travelled to Klerksdorp in the North West Province to meet with various clergy who had applied to join the ACC MDSA. On the 14th he had a meeting to tell the clergy all about the ACC and handed out a copy of the St...

Have you noticed? Most of the commercials in our newspapers, T.V. ads, and junk mail no longer refer to the coming season as ’Christmas’ but rather as ‘the holidays?’ Of course, if the ads were an attempt not to offend anyone, there might be some merit in it. But the festivals of other faiths such...

Bishop Alan made his annual visit to the parishes and missions in the Free State from the 8th to the 12th September.  Flying first to Bloemfontein he then drove to the township of Botshabelo, about 47 km from the airport, where he inspected the Church site on which had been erected a "shack church",  built...

It’s a miracle… Imagine being so short-sighted that you can’t see anything more than two inches from your nose. Then imagine getting spectacles that give you almost normal vision – and even better, not having to pay for them. Daily life for Julia Matokotsi of Harankopane in Qwa-Qwa near the Free State town of Harrismith has...

At 2am on the 18th July a fire started in a neighbour's house and spread to Bavumeleni Khaya. The building was completely gutted, together with furniture, appliances, bedding, personal possessions etc.  Little Lisakhanya Jacob Bongco, who was only 20 months, old perished in the fire, although he was one of the first children taken to...