In light of the recent restrictions on public gatherings we will be broadcasting our services live.
To watch our Sunday service live, please click here to watch on Youtube and click here to watch on Facebook.
MIDWEEK ONLINE GATHERING
In this season, more than ever, we need to stay connected! Due to this we will be digging deeper and unpacking our Sunday sermons together on Tuesday nights. This is a space to ask the tough questions, dig into scripture and connect.
If you would like to join a group to further discuss this content and connect with like-minded people who are on the same journey, please sign up to be added to one of our incredible Life Groups who are meeting across our city and now beyond the boundaries of Durban via Zoom.
COURAGEOUS COMMUNITIES
We believe real life change happens in communities and more specifically, courageous communities.
A courageous community is one that trusts God to place them into the right relationships to be blessed, and to be used for their good and His glory. When people trust God to knit them into the right community, they become more open to God speaking through or using those around them to impact their lives. This is what we are hoping for, for our church.
To take the first step into community, sign up for one of the courses below or sign up to join one of our Life Groups, who are currently meeting weekly via Zoom from homes across our city.
Alpha Groups
Alpha is a series of eleven sessions that explores life, spirituality and the Christian faith in a fun and non-judgmental environment. Alpha creates a space, online or in person, where people are excited to bring their friends for a conversation about faith, life and God.
Whether you’re just checking it out, new to faith, exploring spirituality or just want to make some new friends, you are invited.
Alpha Team
Alpha is only possible through a team of people who are passionate about creating space for people of all backgrounds to explore faith in the context of feeling loved, honoured and listened to.
We need lots of help to create this special environment that makes Alpha so unique. We need people to help with hosting, prayer and helpers(need to be comfortable with zoom platform).
PREMARITAL
Set up your marriage on a solid Biblical foundation.
Join our pastors, Ross Rodger, Natalie Naude and Paul Taylor as they discuss the key principles to setting yourself up well for marriage. Topics include: High Grace High Confrontation, Sex, Being a Rescuer vs. Victim, Friends, Family and a Shared Calendar, Finances and how to Submit, Serve and Honour your partner.
Course starts on Monday 17 August at 7PM on Zoom
Due to COVID-19 regulations we currently cannot meet as we are used to but look forward to the day that we can welcome you back to one of our sites at these times…
OUR SITES
Florida Road
113 Florida Road
Morningside
08:15
10:00
17:00
Kloof
Kloof Country Club
Victory Lane, Kloof
08:00
09:30
North Coast
27 Main Road
Umhlali
09:00
WHAT TO EXPECT
Our Sunday gatherings are generally between 60 and 75 minutes. There is a time of contemporary praise and worship followed by topical, Bible based preaching. Kids have a blast at our Kids Church which runs for the duration of the service and kids are signed in and out of Kids’ Church by parents / guardians.
All are welcome at our services and people come as they are (which is generally very casual because it’s Durban after all). Our teams are looking forward to welcoming you and our Baristas would love to make you a cappuccino.
MEDIA
We now have a way to listen to our sermons that is better than ever, we no longer use SoundCloud. Instead, we use 3 new incredible relevant platforms, being Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and Spotify. Just download the app to your phone, and then you can download the sermons to your phone and listen when you are not in Wifi or click the relevant link below to go to the desktop version.
WHO WE ARE
The vision of the Olive Tree Church is to
Enjoy God, Love People, Release Potential, Impact Community.
We believe that people who learn to Enjoy God during the ups and downs of life, will bear the fruit of that relationship. If God is love, then being with Him will rub off on you. Our first goal is to help people enjoy God so that they will love those around them.
Secondly, we believe that each person has been designed uniquely, with gifts, passions and talents that they have been given to impact their communities. Our role as a church is to help release the potential that exists in every person so that they are both able and inspired to use whatever God has given them to impact our city.
Our goal is to plant 10 sites throughout the city of Durban, each working collectively to both reach and transform the city at large.
Olive Tree Church currently partners with We Are Durban, City Story and Florida Road UIP. Our goal is to release 5000 volunteers through our sites and these partners to bring change to the city.
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 relationship 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 infilling of the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service. We believe in the ministry of all believers.
- 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 regeneration by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this concept of the church, 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 in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of new birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation.
PEOPLE
GET INVOLVED
Ministries: We have a number of different ministries to give you an opportunity to learn, grow and serve in. Our goal for all of our ministries is that they will grow those within the ministry to eventually make a kingdom difference in our city.
GET IN TOUCH
CONTACT US
031 303 9063
113 Florida Road, Morningside, Durban, 4001
Office Hours : 8-4pm, Monday to Thursday
GIVE
Florida Road:
FNB, Musgrave Branch – 221126
Account Number 50900007391
Kloof:
FNB, Musgrave Branch – 221126
Account Number 62375306480
North Coast:
FNB, Musgrave Branch – 221126
Account Number 62436355425
