Community Transformation Stories

20 Feb 2024

Celebrating 10 Years Of Message South Africa

This week we get to celebrate Message South Africa’s 10th birthday! Can you believe it’s already 10 years of mission across the country? Find out what’s been happening.

21 Nov 2023

Celebrating Our 2023 Urban Heroes

Held at the start of November, this year’s Urban Hero Awards was an incredible black-tie dinner event, kindly sponsored by many of our key partners, to celebrate our five amazing award winners. We had wonderful feedback from guests who shared how the evening brought them so much hope and that they’re grateful to see how […]

24 Mar 2023

‘God’s Been So Faithful’

From their Eden Café in Downtown Eastside (Vancouver), the Eden team also run an Employment Programme which gives young people the opportunity to grow in their work skills as well as their faith. Tyler is one person who has recently graduated from the programme. This is his story.

23 Nov 2022

Five Years Of Eden: Fari Maghami

We caught up with Fari who heads up our Eden team in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) to hear what’s been happening.

17 Jun 2022

Reaching Out To Refugees

We’ve all been shocked by what’s happening in Ukraine. As the conflict began, Message Germany knew they couldn’t stand by and do nothing so they got stuck straight into mission helping Ukrainian families.

25 Oct 2021

Coming Full Circle

For many young people living in the toughest neighbourhoods in South Africa, it’s almost impossible to avoid getting involved in gangsterism. But we know this isn’t the plan that God has for them.

25 Jun 2021

Helping To Make The City A Better Place

It was my mother who first met Jesus when she was invited along to Coastal Church by a friend and was so overcome by God’s love that she accepted Jesus into her life. A few years later, I too was drawn to Christianity and was baptized in English Bay in 2004!

09 May 2019

Eden Vancouver

On the western coast of Canada in the city of Vancouver you’ll find Fari and the Eden DTES team.