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Pastor blessing a beer and handing it over to a church member           ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              SHOTLIST:\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Orange Farm - 15 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Pastor blessing a beer and handing it over to a church member\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Tsietsi Makiti praying behind the altar inside a bar, UPSOUND (English): \"Father God, bless our sacrament that is our liquor. Bless our sacrament that is our beer, bless everybody that is inside this church now and forever more.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Church member drinking a beer\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Holy bible on pool table that is used as altar\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Church members listening to Makiti preaching\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Pastor sleeping during the service\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Church members listening to Makiti preaching\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Makiti preaching while grabbing a beer, UPSOUND (English): \"Our sacrament, that is holy. Why? Because the pastors are blessing it before you drink.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tsietsi Makiti, Gabola church founder:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Many people in the taverns, in the pub, in the restaurants are regarded as sinners, because they are drinking. But the Christian church, they like to drink in the... in the backdoors, but they regard themselves as holy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Makiti pouring alcohol over his hands and baptising a church member, UPSOUND (English): \"As a pope in the house of the lord, I declare you a new member in the house of the Lord, which is the tavern. A holy church of God.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Church member sleeping during the ceremony\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Makiti baptising new member of the church UPSOUND (English): \"And you will receive all the rejected people from different churches of apartheid.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. New members being baptised\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Pastor praying while new members are baptised\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Makiti giving alcohol to new members, UPSOUND (English): \"You are welcome in Gabola church. You are welcome in Gabola church. Sip, take a sip, take a sip, take a sip. You are welcome in the House of the lord, amen. Stand up.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Tsietsi Makiti, Gabola church founder:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I was sent by the holy spirit to go to the taverns, to the pubs and to the shebeens (an unlicensed establishment or private house selling alcohol) to preach the word of God in there. Why? Because the rejected people of God are full in those places to be redeemed or to receive the kingdom of God.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various of church members dancing and singing\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Drowsy man sitting on a chair inside the bar\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Pastors blessing a beer, singing\u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Lehasa, Gabola Church member:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"While it's blessed, it still tastes as normal alcohol. But the blessing put in your mind that 'I don't have to do a mistake.' (I'm not doing anything wrong). I have to respect my colleagues. I have to respect my family.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Johannesburg - 19 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various of members of the South African Union Council of Independent Churches during a meeting\u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE (English) Modiri Patrick Shole, Archbishop and director of the South African Union Council of Independent Churches:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's amazing that people who are boozing at a tavern, they tend to use the name 'church' in a wrong place.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Orange Farm - 15 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              23. Pastor singing and drinking beer inside the Gabola church\u003cbr/\u003e              24. A child standing behind the bar in the tavern\u003cbr/\u003e              25. Man ordering a beer inside the tavern where the church service is held \u003cbr/\u003e              26. Pastor drinking beer, UPSOUND (English): 'Hallelujah, in the name of Jesus.'\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Johannesburg - 19 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              27. SOUNDBITE (English) Modiri Patrick Shole, Archbishop and director of the South African Union Council of Independent Churches:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It is a really disgrace. Yeah, it is really... In the history of our century, there is no way, that you have ever had, or you can even quote, that they have been using liquor in the church.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Orange Farm - 15 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              28. Pastor and churchgoers singing and dancing \u003cbr/\u003e              29. Church members singing and dancing\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Johannesburg - 19 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              30. SOUNDBITE (English) Modiri Patrick Shole, Archbishop and director of the South African Union Council of Independent Churches:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We only use wine for, (holy) communion, yes. Not for salvation, not for deliverance.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Orange Farm - 15 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              31. Gabola churchgoers posing for camera in front of the tavern, UPSOUND (English): \"Gabola!\"\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              Dressed in a red robe and a gold-trimmed bishop's mitre, a clergyman pours alcohol into his cupped hand and anoints the forehead of the man sitting before him.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"As a pope in the house of the lord, I declare you a new member in the house of the Lord, which is the tavern. A holy church of God,\" he says, passing  the chalice on. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Hallelujah!\" shout the congregation members who erupt in singing and dancing, swigging from bottles of beer.\u003cbr/\u003e              In an unusual tradition in this self-proclaimed church in South Africa, alcohol flows freely for worshippers - after being blessed by a pastor.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Gabola Church celebrates the drinking of alcohol that some other religious figures frown upon. \u003cbr/\u003e              The South African church was started eight months ago and has found an enthusiastic following.\u003cbr/\u003e              Gabola simply means \"drinking\" in the Tswana language. \u003cbr/\u003e              The church's founder and self-declared pope, Tsietsi Makiti, says he encourages responsible drinking and he emphasises that alcohol will only be sold to and 'blessed' by pastors for those over 20, two years more than South Africa's legal drinking age.\u003cbr/\u003e              He says he started the church because of the views of many Christian churches that drinkers in taverns should be regarded as sinners.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Gabola church is not, however, a member of the mainstream South African Council of Churches or affiliated with any other denominations.\u003cbr/\u003e              Archbishop Modiri Patrick Shole, director of the South African Union Council of Independent Churches, calls the Gabola church a \"disgrace\". \u003cbr/\u003e              The condemnation by other Christian organisations did not bother the 30 worshippers attending a recent Gabola service, held in a bar in the sprawling Orange Farm township 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Johannesburg.\u003cbr/\u003e              A pool table served as the altar, adorned with bottles of whiskey and beer. \u003cbr/\u003e              Six ministers at the altar solemnly blessed the chilled jumbo bottles of beer bought by most churchgoers. 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