Church Planting

Through a series of remarkable providences, Goodwood Baptist Church has been involved in encouraging and helping the Robertson Reformed Community Church, a church in the country areas to constitute.

At the same time we are involved in assisting Wallacedene Baptist Fellowship. This work, in an informal settlement some 30km from Goodwood is pastored by Otto Makalima who with his wife Matshepo are members of GBC. He is assisted by Mphumezi Hombana, another graduate of the Cape Town Baptist seminary.
They report as follows: “At least three hundred and fifty years have lapsed since the advent of the first missionary on the South African soil. Yet, the faith that has altered the course of history is still to be known among the indigenous inhabitants of this Land. That is, of course the experiential reformed evangelical faith, that once possessed the likes of Luther and Calvin. However, this is not in any way a failure on the part of the missionary endeavour of the colonial era. On the contrary, their work has been the necessary phase so that all South Africans would now be readily receptive to the doctrines of grace that once captivated the Puritans of the 17th century."