Diakonaat en jeug in Afrikaanssprekende Gereformeerde gemeentes in Suid-Afrika ; Diaconate and youth in Afrikaans-speaking Reformed congregations in South Africa

South Africa is characterised by various socio-economic and socio-political challenges (fractures) not easily met (or healed). ‘Fractures’ refer to social, economic, religious, spatial, ecological, environmental, and economic injustices and other issues. Within this context, the church is confronted with her vocation. The unique vocation of a congregation is that the members become a ‘new community’ (koinonia) in which they not only care for one another but also develop relationships featuring care for, and mercy and solidarity (diakonia) with the weak, poor, and marginalised in society. Sever... Mehr ...