We aim to convert, attract people of all races to the love and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The African Native Church or African Native Mission Church was founded on 14 January 1892 at Hillside, Sterkspruit in the Colony of Good Hope (Eastern Cape Province). It was founded in a “Cave” at Hillside, in the Herschel District, Sterkspruit. The inception of African Native Mission Church came out of burning desire of Rev Jonas Goduka and others to restore dignity of all native people, and serve God in their own way than being subjected to discriminative treatment of other churches and more over he believed that primitive baptism was by immersion than sprinkling which was practiced by other churches.

Initially, the Church used both names “African Native Church” and “African Native Mission Church” respectively, but more of the first than the latter, until late 1980’s when it became so politically tense such that the Church had to use only African Native Mission Church, because Apartheid Government showed some concerns about the “African Native Church” which was abbreviated as ANC, similar to the political party and on many occasions ministers and members of African Native Church were harassed by Apartheid Law Enforcement Agencies because of the abbreviation similarity. Its founder, Jonas Goduka was born of the Ngqika tribe near King William's Town in 1846, and not long afterwards his parents moved to Fort Beaufort where he grew up. In 1869 he got married in Christian rites to Hannah Goduka.