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peteportal01@gmail.com (Pete Portal) — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:26:13 GMT

The (un)successful Podcast:

Maruwaan: Forever Changed

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:22:31 GMT

The story of Maruwaan Scullard, a young man once wrecked by addiction and violence, who found Jesus one night through a miraculous healing, and lived his life forever changed.

Empty Vessels with Guest Pete Portal - Kings Cross Church

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:22:06 GMT

In this teaching, Pete shares with Kings Cross Church London.

The Follower Podcast: How to Be (un)Successful

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:04:28 GMT

In this conversation, Pete talks about how choosing unsuccess might be the best path to human flourishing. He shares his own story and the struggles that inspired this idea. In addition, he invites us to consider an alternative way of ordering our lives that looks less like the messages filling billboards and magazines and more like the one of scripture.

Hopeful Activists: How to Flourish

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:02:35 GMT

Pete Portal was born in the UK but has lived in Cape Town, South Africa for the last 15 years.

We all have feelings of failure and disappointment, in this conversation we learn to reframe our view of success within Jesus’ framework.

What do you do when Justice gets you stabbed in the back

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:59:49 GMT

In this 6-part series, explore how we as followers of Jesus can respond and walk through the disorientating moments in our lives, in the complexity of today’s culture, by looking to the ancient paths of Jesus.

Kyung Chul (Charlie) Kang is your host for this podcast, joined by Dr Jason Clark in the studio as they discuss mission and how we’re called to participate in it.

Later in the episode, we’re joined by Pete and Sarah Portal who are part of the 24-7 Prayer Community in Manenberg, South Africa, an area of poverty, high crime, and high unemployment. They speak about the ups and downs of ministry, having made the bold decisions to follow the leading of Jesus yet facing incredible amounts of betrayals and disappointments.

In this episode, we discuss:

Dealing with disappointmentsFinding Jesus in the places where injustice is rampantWhat does it mean to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly?How justice might cost us in terms of time, effort and reputationThe difficult balance between justice and mercy‘It’s all just a bit overwhelming’Not evaluating success on results but instead living in obedienceHow do we truly see the people in front of us through the eyes of God?Seeing the fruit of our ministry years later

More about the contributors:

Dr Jason Clark

Jason is Principal and Head of Waverley Abbey College. He holds two PhDs and was previously Pastor at Sutton Vineyard Church, having been involved in church planting and leadership for many years. He is married with three adult children and worships at Emmaus Road Church in Guildford.

Pete and Sarah Portal

Pete and Sarah do life with young adults coming out of gangsterism and drug addiction and help these young adults find faith, freedom and wholeness. Pete is on the board of 24-7 Prayer South Africa, and spends much of my time growing relationships and networks across racial and socio-economic divides, as well as speaking at churches and organisations both locally and internationally on matters of faith and social transformation.

Kyung Chul (Charlie) Kang

Charlie is a member of the Waverley Abbey Community, living onsite as a prayer missionary, holding rhythms of prayer and serving to build a House of Prayer for all nations.

South Africa: Church of Caged Lions | 24/7 Prayer

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:56:47 GMT

Is the church in the West asleep?

Brian and Hannah are joined by Pete Portal, who lives with his family in Manenberg, a township in South Africa. Pete and his wife share their lives with young men coming out of addiction and gang violence, and they’ve seen God do incredible things in their community. Pete talks about how to grieve well in a context full of loss, violence, and injustice, and how Jesus enables impossible hope. He describes how a life in ministry has confronted him with how drastically God’s idea of success is different from the world’s. How has a worldly idea of success crept into the goals of the church? And what’s the solution?

How to be (Un)Successful: Emmaus Rd. Church

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:30:13 GMT

Pete Portal shares from his new book, How to be (Un)Successful: An Unlikely Guide to Human Flourishing, and what it means to really know Christ more, based on Philippians 3:10-11. Pete is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Along with his wife Sarah and daughter Simi, they do life with young men coming out of gangsterism and drug addiction and help these young men find faith, freedom and wholeness.

The Gathering '23 | 24-7 Prayer

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:27:02 GMT

“What does it look like to be an unsuccessful prayer movement in a world where there is an obsession with being seen?”

Pete Portal spoke powerfully about what it looks like be an unsuccessful prayer movement and how our pain can either be transferred onto others or be transformed by giving it to God.

“An unsuccessful prayer movement will measure itself by two metrics: the presence of Jesus, leading us to love the poor… We need to remember that the purpose of our life lies beyond ourselves”

Recorded live in Vienna at The Gathering '23

Bridgetown Church with Jonathan Tremaine

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:22:44 GMT

Jonathan Tremaine Thomas talks with author and speaker Pete Portal on a vision for justice and mercy and how the Spirit empowers us for mission.

A Life of Justice & Mercy | Holy Spirit Conference

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:17:26 GMT

From "Holy Spirit Conference 2023." Pete Portal on a life of justice and mercy led by the Spirit.

Inspired Podcast: Jesus Amongst Gangsters!

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:42:51 GMT

Pete Portal shares stunning stories of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. The reality and result of his life choices and the messy lives he engages with are a tapestry of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair, the miraculous and the mundane, all balanced on a knife-edge.

Kingdom Come, 2021

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:40:25 GMT

Are you tired of slick, polished content? Then you'll love this! My talk at our first 'Kingdom Come' event. Relating stories from scripture and history, to cast vision for a move of the Holy Spirit in Cape Town and South Africa today.

Breaking addiction with faith in new book ‘No Neutral Ground’

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:37:27 GMT

Pete Portal’s new debut book, No Neutral Ground, draws on his experiences from a decade living and working in Manenberg, a community repeatedly defined by its high rates of violent crime, substance abuse, and gangsterism. Through his church work in the community, Pete has managed to rehabilitate many lives and turn them around for the better. He joins Expresso to share more about his experiences.

A fight in a takeaway restaurant led me to Christianity

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:17:46 GMT

Pete Portal leads an outreach project to gang members and drug addicts in Manenberg, South Africa. He tells Justin Brierley about his journey to faith as a teenager.

The legacy of Maruwaan, a Muslim drug addict who came to Christ

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:03:39 GMT

Pete Portal leads an outreach project to gang members and drug addicts in Manenberg, South Africa. He tells Justin Brierley about the story of Maruwaan who came to faith out of a Muslim gang, addicted to drugs, and his tragic death.

Ken&Co: In conversation with Pete Portal

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:59:23 GMT

Pete Portal is a missionary in Manenberg, South Africa where he is passionate about changing the narrative of one of the most notorious gang areas in Africa. He is part of leading "Tree of life" church, part of the National team for 24-7 Prayer South Africa. Pete and his wife Sarah live with young men coming out of gangsterism and drug addiction and, along with a team of friends, disciple and re-parent these young men into faith, freedom and wholeness. Pete is also the Author of "No Neutral Ground" which I highly endorse.

HTB Onslow Square on Sunday

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:55:28 GMT

'It is as supernatural to love our neighbours as it is to raise the dead.' Thanks to Pete Portal who challenged perceptions and encouraged us to take risks in his interview at HTB Onslow Square on Sunday.

Prophecy, Revival, & Activism with Julian Adams

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:44:12 GMT

If we are to see justice, we need to be people of the prophetic, and people of hope. As a result of this last season, we're in need of a new perspective on the personal and systemic prophetic. In this video, I interview my friend Pete Portal, of Tree of Life in Manenberg, South Africa. Pete carries a unique perspective on revival, justice, and prophecy. Having worked in the most dangerous parts of the world, Pete knows what it means to see God's kingdom come in the valleys of the earth.

A conversation with Pete Portal (Podcast)

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:26:08 GMT

There are people who live the Gospel in such a compelling way that it inspires you to do the same. Pete Portal is one of those people. Having lived and ministered in Mannenberg, Cape Town for the past 15 years, Pete has many stories to tell about what it means to follow Jesus to the depths and the ends. Pete is a husband to his wife Sarah, father to his daughter Simi, servant at Tree of life Mannenberg, and author of the book No neutral ground. But above all that, he is a follower of Jesus. As always I hope this conversation helps you follow Jesus well.

The Gospel call to be political

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:53:57 GMT

Listen to this interview with Pete Portal from The Gathering Online 2020, where he shares about the current political climate.