Welcome to the New Church Buccleuch

Pastor
Rev. Mark Allais
Phone: 011 804 1145
Cell: 082 330 1515

Physical Address
14 Muller St. South
Buccleuch
Sandton
Gauteng.

Postal Address
P.O. Box 816
Kelvin
2054

E-mail Address

Services
Sundays at 9:30am
(includes a Children's Programme)

About Us

We are a group of families and individuals committed to learning from, and following, the Lord (i.e. Jesus Christ) who is the one living, loving and ever-present God of heaven and earth. We are a small but vital community of about 125 adults and children spread over much of Gauteng. Many of our congregation drive 20-30 minutes, or even more, to attend church on Sunday mornings.

Ours is an English speaking New Church group, even though our congregation is a cross-section of South African society. We have people from many backgrounds, cultures and languages attending our Sunday services. There are other New Church groups in the Gauteng area that cater for language requirements such as isiZulu and Sesotho.

The New Church is a spiritual movement that is already established, and is growing, in many countries around the world. In South Africa there are more people who are part of this New Church than in any other country.

The New Church is a growing reflection of the New South Africa.

What's "New" About the New Church

The New Church has been in South Africa since the 1840's and, elswhere in the world, for even longer than that. So what's "New" about the New Church? It is the freshness of its religious and spiritual insight and practicality, when compared to traditional Christianity, that makes it "New". It has an openness in reaching out to new communities and different language groups, both here in South Africa and in other countries around the world.

Our Basic Affirmations

• The Lord Jesus Christ is the one living God
• He is present with us in every moment of our life, with a passionate love, profound wisdom and pervasive power to help each one of us.
• His Word enables us to learn what it is to be truly human, how to grow as a person, to recognise and love him and others, to trust His life and reality.
• We are given the freedom, as adults, to choose what kind of person we really want to be forever. This is being "born again" - not in a miraculous instant conversion but continuously, through our decisions and lives from day to day, with the Lord always present helping.
• This new birth enables us to learn to love deeply, to be intimate, trusting, committed to forgiveness and reconcilliation, to act with justice and compassion and to make a difference by our life here on earth.
• "What God has joined together" He will not separate. A marriage, in which there is true love, can continue forever, into eternity.
• We are born so that we can live forever. "Death" is just the end of the physical body which enables us to live in this natural world. We continue to live as a person forever.

These affirmations come out of a powerful set of books the we call "The Writings". We find the Writings consistently echo and support what is true in the Bible. The writings were written over 300 years ago by Emanuel Swedenborg, a mining engineer and scientist whose quest turned to the things of the human spirit, the things that make us truly human.