by Stuart Chase | 6 Feb 2021 | Churches, Eastside Baptist Church (Windhoek, Namibia), Newsletters
Dear Sola 5 community, Thank you for your ongoing prayer support and faithfulness in remembering us in Namibia. 2020 has deeply challenged our communications and interactions with one another and therefore we are all the more thankful for your regular prayer letters...
by Stuart Chase | 13 Dec 2019 | Brackenhurst Baptist Church (Alberton, South Africa), Churches, Newsletters
Dear brethren, Please find below a ministry update from Brackenhurst Baptist Church. The following is an edited version of the pastors’ report delivered at the church’s fourth quarterly members’ meeting for 2019. The past year, as most years, has included great...
by Stuart Chase | 3 Apr 2019 | Brackenhurst Baptist Church (Alberton, South Africa), Churches, Newsletters
In many ways, the last year has been the most difficult we can remember at Brackenhurst Baptist Church (BBC). Between the 2018 and 2019 AGMs, BBC lost 32 members—some through promotion to glory, some through membership transfer, some through discipline, and some...
by Stuart Chase | 14 Feb 2018 | Articles
I recently read the autobiography of Andre Agassi, the American tennis player whose profession career spanned twenty years (1986–2006) and whose unorthodox apparel and attitude is widely credited with helping to revive the popularity of the sport by which he made his...
by Stuart Chase | 4 Oct 2017 | Articles
It seems that we live in a world of memes. According to Merriam-Webster, a meme, strictly speaking, is “any idea, behaviour, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another within a culture.” Most people have come to associate the word, however, with a...
by Stuart Chase | 25 Jul 2017 | Articles
In our ongoing consideration of the seven things that God hates, we have considered “haughty eyes,” “a lying tongue,” “hands that shed innocent blood,” “a heart that devises wicked plans,” “feet that make haste to run to evil” and “a false witness who breathes out...