JOHANNESBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST - STORY

The Johannesburg Church of Christ was started by a handful of disciples that moved from Boston in 1986 to plant the church. Despite this being during the apartheid era in South Africa, it was determined that this would be a multi-racial church right from the outset. With God’s Spirit guiding them and a willingness from all the members to work hard and sacrifice for the cause of Christ, the church rapidly grew from the original 16 into an attendance of 500 within six years.

The church plateaued for a year or two while we worked out some of our growing pains but with the arrival of the Taliaferro’s in 1993, their inspirational faith and expert church-building experience, the church once again began a 10 year growth spurt which took us to Sunday attendances of over 3 000 at Standard Bank Arena.

Also, during the 1990’s the church embarked on an ambitious and faith stretching Mission Team sending phase. Churches were sent out to Umtata; Harare, Zimbabwe; Cape Town; Pretoria; Durban; Maputo, Mozambique; Luanda, Angola; Blantyre, Malawi; Gaborone, Botswana; Lusaka, Zambia; Maseru, Lesotho; Manzini, Swaziland; Antanarivo, Madagascar and Port Louis, Mauritius. At the same time the Cape Town church was able to start congregations in Windhoek, Namibia and Port Elizabeth, while the Pretoria church began congregations in Soshanguve and Polokwane. The Harare church also planted a church in Bulawayo.

God has done more than we could ask or imagine despite our many failures, mis-steps and shortcomings. But God has always worked through imperfect people of faith. We cannot wait to see what God has in store for us in the next twenty years.

HEB 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

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