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About Goshen City Church

Goshen City Church is a registered faith-based community development Non-Profit Company (NPC) aimed at empowering people spiritually, academically and socially. Goshen is founded and anchored on the principles and teachings of the Christian faith.

As an organisation with a special focus on youth developmental agenda established in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, Goshen creates and implements programmes aimed at tackling most of the socio-economic challenges. Our aim is to become a most relevant and impactful centre of development as well as a place of comfort and plenty for many in the community.

Pastor Collen and Mrs Nompumelelo Maluleke are leaders of Goshen City Church. The couple are blessed with four children and passionate about building families, helping the needy and empowering communities at large. Pastor Collen answered his call into ministry to establish the church in 2020 and later launched on 21 November 2021 after having served under the leadership of Apostle Felix Okoh of House of Treasures Ministries. Ps. Collen is a recording Gospel artist, business man in various industries and a community developer.

OUR MISSION AND VISION

What does Goshen mean?

Goshen / (ˈɡəʊʃən) / noun. A region of ancient Egypt, east of the Nile delta: granted to Jacob and his descendants by the king of Egypt and inhabited by them until the Exodus (Genesis 45:10)

Our Vision

Our vision is to see Christ revealed in the Inner City, South Africa, Africa and the world.

Our Mission

To demonstrate the love of Christ on earth.

OUR CORE VALUES

Guided by our core values, we live out our faith with purpose and passion every day. Join us as we strive to make a difference in the world around us.

Love

Love isn’t just a feeling, it’s our guiding principle. We build a community where compassion, kindness, and acceptance flourish.

Family

Family isn’t just a word, it’s our cornerstone. We cultivate a community where unity, support, and belonging thrive.

Generosity

Generosity isn’t just an action, it’s our foundation. We foster a community where sharing, compassion, and abundance abound.

Servant Leadership

Servant leadership isn’t just a practice, it’s our ethos. We cultivate a community where humility, empowerment and service shine.

Prayer

Prayer isn’t just a habit, it’s our lifeline. We nurture a community where connection, faith, and guidance thrive.

Soul Winning

Soul winning isn’t just a mission, it’s our calling. We inspire a community where outreach, compassion, and transformation flourish.

Worship

Worship isn’t just a ritual, it’s our heartbeat. We foster a community where reverence, unity, and spiritual growth resonate.

Faith

Faith isn’t just a belief, it’s our foundation. We cultivate a community where trust, resilience, unity, and hope endure.

Goshen City Church Vision and Mission

Demonstrating the love of Christ on earth so He can be revealed in the inner city, South Africa, Africa and the world.

WHAT DO WE BELIEVE IN?

Our Statement of Faith.

  • We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, in their original writing, as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
  • We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
  • We believe that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death physically and spiritually; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in the case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression involving personal guilt.
  • With regards to sexual behaviour, we believe in heterosexual relationships between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of lawful matrimony.
  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
  • We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
  • We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that all who repent of their sin and receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
  • We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
  • With regards to submission to authority, we believe in the principle of being in authority because you are under authority. As such, it is understood that membership shall be subject to submission to authority in matters pertaining to church governance, doctrine and personal behaviour.
  • We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
  • We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this concept of the Church spiritual and therefore, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of church membership.
  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances – Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith, that Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Saviour’s broken body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, until he comes.
  • We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old and New Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
  • We believe that the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation.
  • We believe the Leadership of the local church has the authority from the scriptures to withdraw the membership of any member for serious, unrepentant misconduct or similar cause.
  • The Church is open to any further truth, which the Holy Spirit may illuminate from the Scriptures.