“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also’’

By: Revd. Jan.A. Scholtz
If you were searching for God’s treasure, you’d find it in people. Every person, in every nation on earth, is treasured by God. Yet for many people, life can be tough. ‘One great hour of sharing’ joins us with God, by providing decisive aid when disaster strikes and by helping refugees/people rebuild [...]

Not The End Of The Buchter

The Buchter News is changing, again. Due to a lack of funds and a desire to continue the newspaper, we are, for the time being not printing the paper in colour in order to half the printing costs. The paper is in dire need of financial help if it is to carry on serving the [...]

Economy and the Struggle for Justice

By Revd. Jan. Scholtz
Southern Africa has undergone a lot of challenges which have included political instability, increased poverty levels and general spiritual malaise in the communities that we serve.
In the following sentences I would like to raise some of the challenges and concerns that confront the people we serve, which we have to address [...]

Two Days

If you spend all your time looking back at yesterday, you are destined to trip over tomorrow.
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days, which should be kept from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday, with it`s mistakes and cares, it’s faults and blunders, it’s [...]

Do To Others As Though You Were The Others

By: Revd. Jan Scholtz
An eastern stable
A starlit night
When God’s eternal light
Shone in the darkness
Of a cheerless world-
A child divine was born
In human form
Like all others
As though he were the others
Reared in poverty
Living in humility
Dying in ignominy
Rising in victory
God’s only Son
With humankind one
Sharing abundant life
With all others
As though he were the others
In a world past caring-
Sin-stained
Power-ridden
Poverty-stricken-
Christ’s [...]

Dealing With Disability

Written by Gregory de Vries.
Grasp your new life and new goals firmly and move on.
Sudden or unexpected disability is an everyday reality in our society with accidents, current levels of violence or illnesses such as strokes.
Learn to accept.
The first step in dealing with a disability is accepting that it has happened and that your life [...]

LEARN TOWRITE IN THE SAND

A story tells that two friends were walking through the

desert. At a specific point of the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one, who got slapped, was hurt, but without anything to say, he wrote in the sand: “TO-DAY, MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN [...]

Thank God For My Shoes

By Ndafa Alpheus
I woke up one day and I realised that there were many things about my life I was not satisfied with or better still, there were challenges that were threatening my soul. And I said to myself, “Why should anyone envy me and want to be in my shoes.” No one knows how [...]

Religion And Economics

By Reverend Jan Scholtz
For most people the proverbial war between science and religion ended long ago, either in a stalemate or a truce. But the conflict between religion and economics go on; apparently for good reasons, after all, didn’t Jesus through the money-changers out of the temple?
Economics isn’t called ‘the dismal science’ for nothing; what [...]

SPCA July

DOG GROOMING
Dog grooming is an important time for both you and your dog and you should both enjoy the experience. You have a chance to increase the bond between you and it is a necessary part of maintaining the good health of your faithful companion. Pets need their human to care for them and they [...]