About Us

Our purpose is to make mature disciples of Jesus Christ, in ever increasing number, who

• love God (Deuteronomy 10:17);

• love people (Matthew 22:39, 25:40); and

• love the Bible (Psalms 119:44-45, 89)

We gather regularly to encourage one another and be encouraged by the truth of the salvation we have through Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

We proclaim and teach God’s Word, the Bible, at every opportunity, submitting ourselves to it (Ephesians 4:1), and seeking to be transformed by it.

We take God’s truth, wherever we can, to make disciples of those who hear the good news and respond in faith and obedience to Jesus as Lord (Matthew 28:20). To this end, we partner with other like-minded believers, churches and organisations to take the good news of Jesus to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8), knowing we can reach more working together than we can on our own.

The following is a brief summary of what we believe:

• The unity of the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit in the Godhead – one God eternally existing in three equally divine Persons – who alone is worthy to receive all glory, honour and adoration.
• The divine inspiration & infallibility of Holy Scripture (the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments), as originally given, and its supreme authority in all matters of faith & conduct. These are complete in God’s revelation of his will for salvation, and sufficient to know all that God requires us to believe and do.
• The creation by God of human beings, male and female – equally made in the image of God, but different in body and role; equally enjoying access to God by faith in Christ Jesus and both called to significant engagement in family, church, and civic life exercising the gifts God has given them.
• The universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the Fall, rendering humanity subject to God’s wrath and condemnation. As a result, all people are alienated from God, corrupted in every aspect of their being and condemned to death – apart from God’s gracious intervention.
• The plan of God from all eternity, whereby He determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe and language and people and nation. To this end he foreknew them and chose them, to the praise of his glorious grace, setting his saving love on those he has chosen, having ordained Christ to be their Redeemer.
• The gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ – utter folly to the world, even though it is the power of God to those who are being saved; this good news centres on the person and work (death, resurrection & return) of Jesus Christ.
• The Word (Eternal Son), became flesh, Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human being, one Person in two natures. He was conceived through the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified, rose on the third day and ascended into heaven.
• The redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin, only through the sacrificial death, as our representative & substitute, of Jesus Christ: who on the cross cancelled the debt of sin and reconciled to God all those who believe in him; who by his bodily resurrection was vindicated by the Father, broke the power of death, defeated Satan, and brought everlasting life to his people; and who by his ascension has been forever exalted as Lord and is preparing a place for us to be with him. Salvation is found in no one else.
• The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit to make the death of Christ effective in the individual sinner, granting repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ, baptizing them into union with him. He is present in believers producing the fruit of salvation, enabling them to walk in holiness and equipping them for works of service to build up the Church.
• The Church is God’s true covenant people, manifest in local churches, of which Christ is the only Head. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her members’ love for one another and the world.
• The expectation of the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ and the resurrection of both the living & the dead, the righteous & the unrighteous, to either eternal conscious punishment or to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb. On that day the church will be presented faultless before God, and
• his people will be enthralled by the immediacy of his ineffable holiness, everything to the praise of his glorious grace.

REACH is an acronym that helpfully reflects what we think our purpose is: to reach South Africa with the good news of Jesus Christ. As an acronym, it reflects our identity as a gospel believing and gospel proclaiming family. In its non-contracted form, our name reflects the history and tradition of our identity. We are the Reformed, Evangelical, Anglican Church of SA:

• Reformed because our roots are in the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century and the biblical truth that justification is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, according to Scripture alone, for the glory of God alone.
• Evangelical because of the absolute supremacy we assign to the Bible as the inspired and infallible Word of God as the final authority in all matters of faith and life and the absolute centrality we attach to the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ in both our salvation and ongoing sanctification through inward work of the Holy Spirit.
• Anglican because we subscribe to the statement of faith known as the 39 Articles, to the liturgy and common worship principles of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and to the ordination structures as found in the Ordinals.
• Church because we are a local gathering who gather as a visible expression of the heavenly gathering; where people from every nation, every tribe and every tongue, gathers around the throne of God in worship.