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ACCOUNT NAME: CHRISTIAN SURFERS SA
BANK NAME: FNB (FIRST NATIONAL BANK)
BRANCH: JEFFREYS BAY – 210515
ACCOUNT NR: 62277574705
ACCOUNT TYPE: CHEQUE ACCOUNT
SWIFT CODE: FIRNZAJJ
REFERENCE: CS SA Donation

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We share the good news of Jesus with surfers, following him together in community and empowering others to do the same. So that every surfer and every surfing community would have opportunity to know and follow Jesus.

OUR CORE VALUES

Gospel Centered

Faith-focused, Bible is our authority, Jesus, discipleship, prayer
(Matthew 28:18-20)

Servant Hearted

Humility, sacrifice, trust, empowering of others (Matthew 20:26-27)

People Of Integrity

Godly character, accountable, authentic (Titus 2:11-12, James 4:17)

Inclusivity

Celebrate diversity, community, relational, partnering, international, open-source (Galatians 3:28)

Surfer Focused

Adventurous, risk-taking, innovative, have-a-go (John 10:10)

Our Core Strategic Ideas

Connecting

Choosing to create opportunities and platforms that will help initiate relationships. e.g. our personal surfing, media, movie nights, camps, outreach contests, etc.

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LOCAL MISSIONS

Hubs, clubs and surf groups are led by surfer friendly churches.

Activities include regular gatherings, Bible sharing, contests, camps, day trips and surf coaching. Local mission is a key way to reach and disciple surfers.

DEVELOPMENT SURFING

Surfing is used as the means to reach out and uplift the poor and underprivileged.

Through partnering in development coaching and sustainable long-term upliftment programmes, we follow the servant heart of Jesus.

SURF MISSIONS

We organise outreaches and Southern African mission trips,
surf camps and cross-border mission trips.

We share the Good News of Jesus from Mozambique to Namibia.

Serving

Choosing to create opportunities and platforms that enable us to meet the needs of our wider surfing community. e.g. serving at events, people care, logistical support, emergency response, community development, etc.
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SERVING

“See a need meet a need.” Meeting the needs of our wider surfing community. It’s pretty simple and powerful way to positively impact your surfing community. e.g. event service teams, logistical support, adaptive surfing etc.

We offer support at various surf comps, from grassroot level to WSL contests.

Through building friendships with surfers, event organisers, coaches, their friends and family,
we grow trust-relationships and have the opportunity to share our faith.

Contact us at info@christiansurfers.co.za should you wish to serve with us at events.

Partnerships

Choosing to develop relationships of trust where sharing and joining with others helps us to achieve our vision. e.g. local churches, mission agencies, surf industry, secular surfing organisations, surf media, alumni, Aleph, etc.
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PARTNERSHIPS

Develop relationships of trust, where sharing and joining with others help advance the Kingdom. e.g. local churches, mission agencies, surf industry, prayer networks etc.

PRAY FOR SURFERS NETWORK

The Pray for Surfers Network connects each local group along the coast through united prayer. This national community of praying surfers and believers are committed to intercede for surfers and surf communities.
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SUPPORTING THE LOCAL CHURCH

Advancing God’s Kingdom together with partnering local churches and organisations along the coastline of South Africa.

In partnering with local churches, we develop connections with the surfer, providing opportunities to reach the unreached, through building relationships.

CSSA provide equipping and support to empower partners to reach and disciple surfers
and helping them grow their life-long relationship with Jesus.

Discipleship

Choosing to create opportunities and platforms that introduce and grow surfers in their life-long relationship with Jesus. e.g. local missions, Bible studies, camps, national movements, prayer, etc.
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DISCIPLESHIP

Grow and encourage surfers, through the local church, in their life-long relationship with Jesus.
e.g. life groups, camps, prayer, spiritual disciplines etc.

LOCAL CHURCH

Christian Surfers South Africa supports the local church by sharing its experience and resources.  This could take the form of mentoring and leadership development or training of surf chaplaincy outreach groups.

If there are surfers in your church, let’s partner to reach the beach and the surfers in the water.

We are always excited to discuss opportunities to reach surfers.

Equipping

Choosing to create opportunities and platforms that empower our people to advance our mission. e.g. training, mentoring, resources, leadership development, spiritual disciplines, CSALT, etc.

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EQUIPPING

Supporting and empowering leaders and partners with the resources, training and mentorship needed to reach and disciple surfers.

EQUIPPING RESOURCES

Supporting your ministry by providing support resources & services. There are some many great resources out there and Christian Surfers have specific material you can use, like our Surfers Bibles. We also offer training, which could be at a conference, camp or at focused time away.

NATIONAL GATHERINGS

Christian Surfers is about experiencing life in community.

So, every year we get the whole tribe together – surfers – skaters – skimmers, ‘cos we’re inclusive.

CSALT

The Christian Surfers Africa Leadership Training (CSALT) program equips surfers and skaters to purposefully impact their local communities with the Good News of Jesus.

Equip – Surf – Skate – Serve – Disciple

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OUR DNA

Our DNA is represented by a triangle, with four distinctive characteristics:

  • The triangle centrepiece is the very heart of Christian Surfer and three sides.
  • Being Christ Centred is our first characteristic and at the heart of our movement, the next three characteristic are how we organise ourselves to achieve our purpose, represented by the three external sides of our DNA Triangle.
  • Each of these characteristic is found in every aspect of our mission and is key to positively impact and influencing your surfing community.

OUR HISTORY

Christian Surfers South Africa was born in the early ’90s when a few passionate young surfers wanted to share their faith in Jesus Christ with their surf buddies. This was at a time when surfers were generally not made to feel welcome in traditional church meetings, and so Sonsurf was born, an organisation bringing the gospel of Jesus to the hard core surfers of East London and Cape Town. It quickly spread to the other surf centres around our coastline, mainly through clubs, creating a space for surfers to discover Jesus and grow in faith while being accepted as surfers.
As the mission expanded and more clubs were formed, larger outreach projects were taken on such as hosting some of the largest contests on the local circuit (even with live Christian rock bands!) This led to youth camps with hundreds of wild groms, which led to the formation of more local clubs. From early days Sonsurf started to network with similar missions around the globe, and eventually around the turn of the millennium it was decided to form one international organisation and so the name was changed to Christian Surfers. A national office was established in Jeffreys Bay, along with an internship programme called CSALT to equip young people for surf ministry. A surf school in Strand was established and surf chaplaincy and service team ministries were birthed when CS was asked to serve at the ASP WCT event at J-Bay (Billabong Pro). And so our story continues as we share the Good News with our surf tribe and trust our God that every surfer and every surf community in South Africa will have an opportunity to know and follow Jesus.