Internationally, Soul Action is the bit of Soul Survivor that exists to help people to do something about issues of injustice and poverty. In South Africa, Soul Action specifically exists to gather, mentor and encourage people to utilize their God-given potential, in order to address the various forms of cognitive, emotional, physical, social and spiritual poverty within business, the church, education and non profit organisations. Under the leadership of it's co-founders and Directors Phil and Rachel Bowyer, Soul Action is a Section 18A Public Beneficiary Organisation (No. 930 033 937), and a Non Profit (No. 076-225), having ...

VALUE #1: God the Father is, "...the providential source...the initiator and final goal of the missio dei" (Tennent 2014:124); and therefore we are invited to join His mission. But what is Mission? “What is mission?” is a question Soul Action often asks, and...

Holistic Potential

VALUE#2: Just like Jesus, all people have potential and therefore deserve the opportunity to grow cognitively, physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially (Luke 2:52). South Africans have a word for it - Kiff. Growing up in the 80’s everything was cool...

Mind the Gap

VALUE #3: "We need to come off our religious high horse and get our feet on the lowly, earthly ground of God's primary activity as creator and sustainer of life. We must relinquish missionary presuppositions and begin in the beginning with the Holy Spirit. Th...

Domino Business

Posted on August 17August 17 by data

Address: Anthem Church, 37 Mackeurtan Ave, Durban North 4051. (more…)

Education is a lifelong process

Posted on August 13 by Rachel Bowyer

Education is not just the acquiring of knowledge and skills while you are in school or studying at university or college. It is a lifelong process or journey. As adults, we learn through acquiring new knowledge and skills, trying out new experiences and challenging ourselves to overcome new things. Recently Soul Action facilitated a workshop on developing phonological awareness with crèche teachers. Previous workshops this year focused on some of the steps to phonological awareness: sound di...

Reggio Emilia Conference

Posted on August 7 by Rachel Bowyer

The ‘great forest installation’ at Africa’s Reggio Conference, was an invitation to create and share a vision of children's rights, to cultivate ecosystems that share ideas, information, resources. As we prepare to establish an affordable, excellent & integrated / transcultural school, Soul Action has been researching innovative models of education. In June, Rachel had the privilege of attending a 3-day conference on the Reggio Approach to education. The conference takes place annually ...

Policy Development

Posted on July 25 by Rachel Bowyer

The last few weeks have been incredibly fruitful, with a great deal of energy, time and thinking being spent developing policies and toolkits for the school. These include staff focused policies outlining procedures for recruitment and selection, processes for pay and performance management, and child focused policies considering learning needs, inclusion and admission procedures. A total of 19 policies have been written so far, nine of which have toolkits with all the necessary forms and templ...

Initiating Change

gathering and equipping leaders

Investing in Potential

meeting, mentoring & supporting leaders

Innovative in Action

choosing to make a positive difference

Soul Action works with leaders - of business, charity, the Church and education - to establish a more equitable, equal and integrated South Africa; a society where everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their God-given potential.

A BIT ABOUT SOUL ACTION

It is God’s Mission