ACSA: My Church!

OUR HISTORY

 

Apostolic Church World-Wide History

The Apostolic church an international movement which is found in more than 40 Nations of the World. 

The Apostolic Church was born out of the Welsh Revival that occurred in 1904-09 in the coal mine district of Penygroes, South Wales. During the Revival some had experienced speaking in tongues and prophecy. In the new church these manifestations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit began to be heard more frequently. It was a coal miner, D.P. Williams who became one of the founding members of Apostolic church.

This out pouring and awakening of the Holy Ghost Visitation spread across many parts of the World. This revival swept even across Africa. Some of the pioneer nations of the Apostolic Church include Nigeria and Ghana in the early 1930’s.

Apostolic Church Southern Africa History

The ACSA was founded by the Apostolic Church United Kingdom who in the late 1950’s handed the work to the Apostolic Church Denmark. The work gained its ground in South Africa in the early 60’s. The missionaries from these overseas Nations pioneered this work which has grown so much that it is now found all over the nation.

It wasn’t easy for these early missionaries to establish the work in South Africa because of the Apartheid system which caused the first Apostolic mission to be divided into separate groups for the whites, the Indian, the coloured and the black population.

When the work was established among the black South Africans, they established its headquarters at Nthanda, popularly known as Inanda, a black Township in the outskirt of Durban. The work grew extensively that a bigger place was a must. They later bought a mushroom farm on a bigger piece of land at Riverview 7 km form Hillcrest. This is now the headquarters for ACSA, just a few kilometres away from the famous Inanda Dam and sits on top of the valley of a thousand Hills.

The headquarters consist of a church Auditoriums, offices, staff houses, dormitories, dining halls, kitchens, a small farming area and parking.