ABOUT US
In the year 1999, about one hundred individuals came together to form the Manzini Fellowship Church (MFC). The church’s first pastor was Dr Charles Mahlangu, and he served with five elders (O.B Macwele, O.M Dlamini, H.G Shongwe, G.R Bhembe, and A.E.F Simelane). One of the elders, Andy Simelane, was called a “roving elder” because he went from cell to cell encouraging the brethren. Hence, when Charles left the pastorate to go and take up the principal’s position at the Evangelical Seminary of South Africa (ESSA) in 2002, the church called Andy Simelane to take over the pastorate. In the same year, the church began to support church-planting work in northern Mozambique where they sent two brothers as missionaries. What started out as two churches with ten members in 2002 have now (2019l become 20 churches with over 200 members. The latest testimony from there has been the conversion of a Muslim leader, who has had to leave the area to avoid being killed. In 2003 they also started to support a new church plant in Thembisa, just outside Pretoria in South Africa. Some members of this church drove all the way from Thembisa to attend the meetings (see their picture below).
For many years the Manzini Fellowship Church remained lonely because they could not find any church within Swaziland that held on the same biblical belief. The breakthrough came in February 2006 when they invited Pastor Martin Holdt of Constantia Park Baptist Church to minister among them. Martin introduced them to a whole host of Reformed conferences in South Africa, such as the Shepherds’ Conference, the Grace Ministers’ Conference, the reformed Evangelical FamilConference (Skogheim) and the Sola 5 Conference. Since then they have not missed a single one of these conferences. To top it all up, the church joined the Sola 5 family of churches in 2007 when Sola 5 had its annual conference in Zambia.
The Manzini Fellowship Church has a very active membership, comprising mostly professional and business people. The church members participate in church-based ministries meant to reach out to non-Christians in obedience to the Great Commission. Presently MFC has has 8 such ministries some of these are ladies ministry, men’s ministry, Sunday school ministry and a youth fellowship ministry, couples ministry, building ministry, evangelism ministry & malihambe ministry.
We believe in One Triune God, The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. According to the Scriptures.
We believe that through man, sin entered the world and all creation, leading to the total depravity of all mankind. According to the Scriptures.
We believe God the Son came to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins. By His death on the cross, and His resurrection on the Third day. According to the Scriptures.
We believe God the Son came to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins. By his death on the cross and his resurrection on the third day. According to the scripture.
We believe God has made a provision by which man can be reconciled with Him, through repentance and regeneration. According to the Scriptures.
We believe salvation comes only through believing the proclaimed gospel message, confessing with the mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believing in the heart that Go raised Christ from the dead. According to the Scriptures.
We believe that upon embracing the Lordship of Christ as my Saviour, my sins were forgiven, I was cleansed by the blood of Christ, and my reconciliation with God was effected. According to the Scriptures.
We believe that at salvation, God the Holy Spirit indwells the believer, and makes him his temple. According to the Scriptures.
We believe that at salvation, Jesus Christ baptizes each believer by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ. According to the Scriptures.
We believe that at salvation, God the Holy Spirit seals each believer as a declaration of ownership, guaranteeing future redemption. According to the scriptures.
We believe that at salvation, a believer is made a steward of the manifold grace of God. According to the Scriptures.
We believe each and every believer in the Body of Christ is entrusted with gifts of the Holy Spirit, to fulfil God’s program and agenda in the Church and in the world. According to the Scriptures.
We believe the Church is the pillar and foundation of the Truth, it is mandated to train and equip all members of the Body of Christ to the attainment of the full measure of growth in the Holy Spirit, through the power of God.
We believe that, in accordance with the Word, the overall objective/agenda of the Church is the proclamation of the gospel message, and the training, equipping and teaching of the saints in the Whole Counsel of God.
We believe Christ Jesus will return in body* to snatch His Church out of this world, raising all the dead in Christ. According to the Scriptures.
We believe in the second coming of Christ, at which all unbelievers will be judged. According to the scriptures
We believe Jesus Christ will judge Satan, his angels, and all unbelievers, by casting them into the lake of unquenchable fire. According to the Scriptures.
We believe in the resurrection of the dead, and that they will acquire their immortal bodies. According to the Scriptures.
We believe all Scriptures is God-breathed, and it is useful for the equipping and training of my stewardship, in all areas of life. According to the Scriptures.
Statement of Faith
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Manzini Fellowship Church