Written by: Peter Hammond
Article source: Literature4Africa
On Easter Saturday we conducted an evangelistic outreach at Sea Point. “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Colossians 3:16
Despite rain the previous day, it was a beautiful day in brilliant sunshine and there were crowds of people out enjoying the Sea Point promenade.
We set up a Literature for Africa Table and gazebo, with sharkfin banners, inviting Pedestrians passing by to help themselves to a variety of Gospel literature on our table. This included the Jesus Messiah Gospel comic books And The Case for Easter book by Lee Strobel. These books were offered free to those who completed Our Spiritual Well-being Survey, which basically takes people through the Evangelism Explosion and Way of the Master Evangelistic questions. By God’s grace I was able to lead 7 people through these convicting Evangelistic questions and pray with them before presenting them with their copies of these life changing books. “So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
Muslims for the Messiah
We were also joined by more than 10 volunteers who distributed World Missionary Press Gospel booklets to the many passersby. Several Muslims gladly received How to Know God Gospel booklets from us. “For… the Gospel of Christ, … is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes…” Romans 1:16
Jews for Jesus
We were also able to pray with a number of Jewish people and lead one of them to Christ. We designed a Gospel tract specifically for these people: How to Recognize the Messiah. There were also four men in wheelchairs that I was able to have evangelistic conversations with and pray with. We had some encounters with atheists and some hostile individuals, some of whom we were able to pray with and some of them even took Gospel literature to read. “For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
Consignment for KwaZulu
This morning we had the joy of loading up and sending off a consignment of hundreds of Bibles and many thousands of Gospel booklets to KwaSizabantu Mission in KwaZulu Natal, over 1600 kilometers away. “The Lord gave the Word; great was the company that published it.” Psalm 68:11
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Date published: 13/04/2026
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