A creative ministry at Benoni Baptist Church is photography. The team Sonny and Yolanda, together with Kaitlyn, snap shots on a Sunday. Craig and Robert are involved in video streaming. The disclaimer We take photos in the main hall, and the Sunday service is live streamed. We will never post photos of children without permission
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Welcome to Benoni Baptist Church. Wonder what our services are like? Here’s an example of a Sunday service at Benoni Baptist Church. Not a performance. A gathering of ordinary people under the Word of God. My name is Mark Penrith, I am the senior pastor of Benoni Baptist Church. We are conservative. And evangelical. Really,
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Open in prayer Open with each member of the group sharing a prayer request, and then pray for one another. Scripture reading But you are to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching. Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, in love, in endurance. In the same way, older
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This afternoon, the elders of Benoni Baptist Church (Mark Penrith, Andre Broodyk, and David Somerset), together with members, and pastors from Baptist Northern Association churches examined Gerhard Wessels for the office of elder at Benoni Baptist Church. We asked him questions. He answered. We listened. The preamble The New Testament is not silent about how
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Chosing songs to add to our hymnology is not a lightweight thing. And we’ve have a new addition. Not a passing emotion dressed in melody. A prayer set to music. This is Getty. Keith and Kristyn. You know their work. In Christ Alone. The Power of the Cross. They write for the church. They write
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The Baptist Northern Association is a self-governing fellowship of autonomous Baptist churches in southern Africa sharing a common faith and co-operating in ministry. Basically, we’re churches that partner together to get things done. David Somerset, Evans Odhiambo, Diego Rizzo, and myself went through to Rosettenville Baptist Church on Monday evening, 7 September 2026, to attend
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Open in prayer Open with each member of the group sharing a prayer request, and then pray for one another. Scripture reading Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your
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Open in prayer Open with each member of the group sharing a prayer request, and then pray for one another. Scripture reading For there are many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from the circumcision party. It is necessary to silence them; they are ruining entire households by teaching what they
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Our elders meet every second week, alternating our attention between oversight and shepherding. This past Thursday we read Scripture, prayed, and exercised oversight. In keeping with our desire to remain transparent, here is a digest of key items from our meeting. We streamed out agenda. Several items were removed as they are being effectively managed
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In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul wrote that Christ gave the church pastors and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ, until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into maturity with a stature
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