SERVICES

Sunday Mornings — 9AM

Friday Evening Youth — 7PM-9PM

  GETTING HERE

If you are planning a visit, you can't miss us! We are situated on the corner of C.J. Langhoven and Norvic Drive, across from the Greenacres Mall in Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha). Our main entrance and parking may be found here on Nile Road.

  WORSHIP

At GAP Church our corporate worship time is focused on the praise and worship of God. Our worship team is not a performance team, but seeks to encourage the entire congregation to lift their voices to God in praise and to focus all of our attention on worshipping His awesome name.

  CHILDREN AND YOUTH

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We have great facilities and an awesome volunteer team in our Children’s Church ministry. We love our children and see them as important members of our church community.

On Sundays, a Baby Room gives privacy to feeding moms and babies.

Munchkins is a supervised program for pre-schoolers where they can enjoy the Bible through fun-filled learning. Children’s church give our 7 – 12 years an energetic, spiritual program with a focus on relevant topics.

Youth

We are a community of young people that loves God passionately, shares God with the world and knows that He transforms, renews and empowers us all. We meet on Friday nights from 19:00 – 21:30.

  HOMEGROUPS

The early church is described in Acts 2 as "devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."(Acts 2:42)

At GAP we strive to be a church that emulates the simplicity and devotion of the early church. For this reason, we actively encourage all our members to be involved in a homegroup where we can disciple and encourage one another.

  ENRICHMENT COURSES

These are exciting opportunities which stretch, challenge, and grow us as individuals, couples or groups. Included are Engagement Counseling, Marriage Enrichment, Parenting Courses, Grief Share, Divorce Care, Divorce Care for Kidz, Youth and Family Missions, Church Camps, and Men and Women’s Retreats.

  FELLOWSHIP EVENTS

Men's Fellowship

Our men connect over breakfast and camps. These light hearted times are underpinned by a serious desire to learn about the Christian life and to pray together.

Ladies' Fellowship

Regular meetings with prayer, encouragement and fellowship make this an important facet of GAP.

Evergreens

Our Evergreen fellowship is for the young-at-heart. With regular fellowship and social events, our Evergreen group recognises the ongoing contribution believers can make later in life.

Family Camps

Once a year we try to get away as a church family and enjoy the beauty of God's creation together. Our family camps involve the whole family and in addition to just having fun together, we enjoy times of worship and studying scripture.

Our beliefs may be found in detail here in the Westminster Shorter Confession, but you can find some of the highlights below.

  HUMANITY'S PURPOSE

We believe a person's chief end is to glorify God, [a] and to enjoy Him forever. [b]

[a]. Ps. 86:9; Isa. 60:21; Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 6:20; 10:31; Rev.4:11
[b]. Ps. 16:5-11; 144:15; Isa. 12:2; Luke 2:10; Phil. 4:4; Rev.21:3-4

  SCRIPTURE

The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, [a] is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. [b]

[a]. Matt. 19:4-5 with Gen. 2:24; Luke 24:27, 44; 1 Cor. 2:13; 14:37; 2 Pet.1:20-21; 3:2, 15-16
[b]. Deut. 4:2; Ps. 19:7-11; Isa. 8:20; John 15:11; 20:30-31; Acts 17:11; 2 Tim. 3:15-17; 1 John 1:4

The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, [a] and what duty God requires of man [b].

[a]. Gen. 1:1; John 5:39; 20:31; Rom. 10:17; 2 Tim. 3:15
[b]. Deut. 10:12-13; Josh. 1:8; Ps. 119:105; Mic. 6:8; 2 Tim. 3:16-17

  GOD

God is a Spirit [a], infinite [b], eternal [c], and unchangeable [d] in his being [e], wisdom [f], power [g], holiness [h], justice [i], goodness [j], and truth [k].

[a]. Deut. 4:15-19; Luke 24:39; John 1:18; 4:24; Acts 17:29
[b]. 1 Kings 8:27; Ps. 139:7-10; 145:3; 147:5; Jer. 23:24; Rom. 11:33-36
[c]. Deut. 33:27; Ps. 90:2; 102:12, 24-27; Rev. 1:4,8
[d]. Ps. 33:11; Mal. 3:6; Heb. 1:12; 6:17-18; 13:8; Jas. 1:17
[e]. Ex. 3:14; Ps. 115:2-3; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:15-16
[f]. Ps. 104:24; Rom. 11:33-34; Heb. 4:13; 1 John 3:20
[g]. Gen. 17:1; Ps. 62:11; Jer. 32:17; Mat. 19:26; Rev. 1:8
[h]. Heb. 1:13; I Pet. 1:15-16; 1 John 3:3, 5; Rev. 15:4
[i]. Gen. 18:25; Ex. 34:6-7; Deut. 32:4; Ps. 96:13; Rom. 3:5, 26
[j]. Ps. 103:5; 107:8; Matt. 19:17; Rom. 2:4
[k]. Ex. 34:6; Deut. 32:4; Ps. 86:15; 117:2; Heb. 6:18

There is but one God only [a], the living and true God [b].

[a]. Deut. 6:4; Isa. 44:6; 45:21-22; 1 Cor. 8:4-6
[b]. Jer. 10:10; John 17:3; 1 Thess. 1:9; 1 John 5:20

Trinity: There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [a]; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. [b]

[a]. Matt. 3:16-17; 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Pet. 1:2
[b]. Ps. 45:6; John 1:1; 17:5; Acts 5:3-4; Rom. 9:5; Col. 2:9; Jude 24-25

  HUMANITY

God created man male and female, after his own image [a], in knowledge [b], righteousness, and holiness [c], with dominion over the creatures [d].

[a]. Gen. 1:27
[b]. Col. 3:10
[c]. Eph. 4:24
[d]. Gen. 1:28; see Ps. 8

  SIN

Sin is any failure to conform to God's perfect law.

[a]. Lev. 5:17; Jas. 4:17; 1 John 3:4

Every person by their fall[*] lost communion with God [a], are under his wrath [b] and curse [c], and so made liable to all miseries in this life [d], to death [e] itself, and to the pains of hell for ever [f].

[a]. Gen. 3:8, 24; John 8:34, 42, 44; Eph. 2:12; 4:18
[b]. John 3:36; Rom. 1:18; Eph. 2:3; 5:6
[c]. Gal. 3:10; Rev. 22:3
[d]. Gen. 3:16-19; Job 5:7; Ecc. 2:22-23; Rom. 8:18-23
[e]. Ezek. 18:4; Rom. 5:12; 6:23
[f]. Matt. 25:41, 46; 2 Thess. 1:9; Rev. 14:9-11
[*]. For more see questions 15-18 of the catechism linked above.

  SALVATION

God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life [a,] did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer [b].

[a]. Acts 13:48; Eph. 1:4-5; 2 Thess. 2:13-14
[b]. Gen. 3:15; 17:7; Ex. 19:5-6; Jer. 31:31-34; Matt. 20:28; 1 Cor. 11:25; Heb. 9:15

The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ [a], who, being the eternal Son of God [b], became man [c] and so was, and continues to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever [d].

[a]. John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Tim. 2:5-6
[b]. Ps. 2:7; Matt. 3:17; 17:5; John 1:18
[c]. Isa. 9:6; Matt. 1:23; John 1:14; Gal. 4:4
[d]. Acts 1:11; Heb. 7:24-25

Jesus Christ became man [a], made under the law [b], underwent the miseries of this life [c], the wrath of God [d], and the cursed death of the cross [e]; was buried, and continued under the power of death for a time. [f]

[a]. Luke 2:7; 2 Cor. 8:9; Gal. 4:4
[b]. Gal. 4:4
[c]. Isa. 53:3; Luke 9:58; John 4:6; 11:35; Heb. 2:18
[d]. Ps. 22:1 (Matt. 27:46); Isa. 53:10; 1 John 2:2
[e]. Gal. 3:13; Phil. 2:8
[f]. Matt. 12:40; 1 Cor. 15:3-4

Christ was resurrected on the third day in bodily form [a], ascended up into heaven [b], sits at the right hand [c] of God the Father, and he will come again to judge the world at the last day [d].

[a]. 1 Cor. 15:4
[b]. Ps. 68:18; Acts 1:11; Eph. 4:8
[c]. Ps. 110:1; Acts 2:33-34; Heb. 1:3
[d]. Matt. 16:27; Acts 17:31

We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit [a].

[a]. Titus 3:4-7

The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us [a], and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling [b].

[a]. Rom. 10:17; 1 Cor. 2:12-16; Eph. 2:8; Phil. 1:29
[b]. John 15:5; 1 Cor. 1:9; Eph. 3:17