Our story
A growing number of people were coming to Living Hope Church in Hatfield, Pretoria from the West of Pretoria and from the Townships North-West of Pretoria (Ga-Rankuwa, Soshanguve, Mabopane). This included several students from the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) in Ga-Rankuwa. All these areas did not have any English-medium, Bible-teaching churches that we knew of, and due to distance, it was often a struggle for many of these people to get to Living Hope for church.
One of the Living Hope pastors, Donovan Drew, moved with his family to Danville, Pretoria West in March 2020 to have more opportunities for evangelism, discipleship, and facilitating fellowship for those in the area. We started a weekly Bible Study on the campus of SMU University and monthly Young Adult meetings at the Drews' home. We began new Gospel Community Groups in Danville (at the Drews' home) and in Ga-Rankuwa (in Jimmy Monama's flat in the Doctor's Quarters at George Mukhari hospital), and helped facilitate transport to Sunday Worship Services and other church events. Momentum continued to grow, and the Living Hope elders decided around August 2021 that the time was right for us to press forward and plant a church in Pretoria West.
On Sunday, 27 February 2022, Living Hope sent
out 15 of their members to serve as the core of the
new church. For the first 2 months, the church plant
met for Sunday Worship at the Drews' home in
Danville. From May 2022 to February 2025 our
Sunday Worship gatherings were held at Die
Heuwel Primary School in Proclamation Hill.
We became an independent local church on Sunday, 8 October 2023, once 2 of the founding members, Dumi Ndhlovu and Nhlanhla Nkosi, were appointed as elders and the church had a plurality of elders providing oversight.
God provided an amazing home for our church in Andeon, through remarkable providence, sacrificial giving from our members, and a variety of generous donors. Our first Sunday at our own property was 2 March, 2025, a Sunday which also marked 3 years since our first Sunday gathering as a church plant.
