Due to Level One regulations, we are able to open our buildings again. We are so excited to welcome a limited number of our community back!

We are asking everyone who can and is connected to a community to do everything you can to get a little community together in a home over the next few weeks and do church the way we see church done in the book of Acts.

If you have not been gathering on a Sunday in a Life Group or Home Church, we would love for you to host you for our Sunday service at the church. Booking is essential – please scroll down to “Sunday Services” to book your spot.

The vision of the Olive Tree Church is to Enjoy God, Love People, Release Potential and 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.

CHURCH ONLINE EXPERIENCE

Due to Covid-19 and restrictions on public gatherings we will be broadcasting our services live online.

Even in this season where we may be apart physically, the power of a courageous community is that we can still stay connected!
No matter where you are right now—whether in you are in Durban or not, we would love to connect with you!

JOIN US THIS SUNDAY LIVE AT 9AM

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SUNDAY SERVICES

There are people gathering in homes all around our city for watch parties. This way of doing church is the way the church in Acts would have run, they would have had letters instead of videos, but church has exploded across the world over centuries.

Due to Level One regulations, we are able to open our buildings again. We are so excited to welcome (a limited number) our community back! If you have not been gathering on a Sunday in a Life Group or Home Church, we would love for you to join us for our Sunday Service in our buildings.

FLORIDA ROAD

Join us at our Florida Road site for our 8:15AM, 10:00AM or 6:00PM service. Due to regulations, seating is limited and booking your spot is essential. Please complete the below form to book your spot for the Sunday service and/or Kids Church.

BOOK FOR THE SERVICE

KLOOF

Join us at Kloof Country Club for our Sunday Services at 9AM. Due to regulations, seating is limited and booking your spot is essential. Please email us to book your spot for the Watch Party or book your kiddies (Age 6-12) a spot for Kids Church

BOOK FOR THE SERVICE

NORTH COAST

Join us at our North Coast Watch party at 9AM.

OFF THE CUFF

An unscripted conversation around crucial and current topics.

It’s not your typical Sunday Service but rather relevant topics for our young adults community who are hungry to understand what is going on?
Join us every Sunday night at 6PM on Facebook and Church Online.

This is the perfect opportunity to invite a friend,
share the conversation
host a watch party
and keep the conversation going.

No matter where you are right now, we want to share this conversation with you!

BOOK A SEAT IN THE ROOM

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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.

MIDWEEK ONLINE GATHERING

In this season, more than ever, we need to stay connected! Due to this we will be digging deeper and unpacking the Sunday Sermon during our Midweek Gathering.

When Jesus described what He was doing on earth, He said in Luke 19:10 “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” God’s mission for the church and therefore for those of us who call ourselves Christian is to seek and save the lost, but that often comes with a sense of “ought to” and guilt because talking about Jesus requires courage and conviction. The conversation doesn’t always go as we’d hoped and on most occasions, most of us don’t feel qualified to represent Jesus. In this 3 week series, we are going to look at the beautiful message, an authentic messenger and how to live in such a way that you provoke questions in those around you

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CONNECT WITH A PASTOR

Are your new to Olive Tree? Have you joined in the last six months and have not been able to connect with anyone personally? Our pastors would LOVE to have a coffee with you (mask-to-mask or virtually)

Has this season been tough on you and you just need some pastoral care or connection? Please let us know, we would love to connect with you

GIVE US YOUR DETAILS AND ONE OF OUR PASTORS WILL CONTACT YOU

KIDS CHURCH

While we can’t gather in our Kids Church room’s on a Sunday, we can still have an incredible time learning about God, growing in relationship with Him and learning how to share His love with the world!

If you would like a low data solution to receiving our Kids Church material, Please email Elzanne to be added to our mailing list

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GET CONNECTED

If you want to get a feel for who we are, where we come from and how you can grow in our community, you need to attend a Get connected class. Get Connected will help you to find a group and a ministry to serve in as well as giving you a clear picture of who’s who in our church

HOSPITALITY TEAMS

If you really want to get to know people, get into the kitchen with them. This is where you get to be part of the family. Our Hospitality teams are where the magic of building relationships whilst serving happens.

GROW GROUPS

Grow groups are courses that we run 3 times a year for 6 – 9 weeks a term. Each grow group is part of an overall ministry and so there is a next step at the end of each grow group cycle.

To sign up for one of our upcoming courses click signup below.

LIFE GROUPS

These are groups that continue for large chunks of the year. They vary from highly relational communities to bible study groups. There are between 6 and 20 people per group.

To sign up for one of our upcoming courses click below

WE ARE DURBAN

We are Durban is our social justice side of the church. We are Durban Exists to Empower Social Dignity Organisations to excel in their mandate.

We serve the Social dignity organisations in 3 ways:

Providing relevant, professional conferences for the heads of the organisations to equip and network them
Providing inducted and prepared volunteers who add value to the organisations
Liaising with the municipality on projects that further the causes of the organisations

If you’d like to learn more about We Are Durban, you can go to their website http://wearedurban.com

OUR PODCASTS

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.

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.

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

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Kloof

Kloof Country Club
Victory Lane, Kloof

08:00

09:30

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North Coast

27 Main Road
Umhlali

09:00

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PEOPLE

Ross Rodger

Lead Elder

Paul Taylor

Kloof Site Leader

Natalie Naude

North Coast Site Leader

Justin Elson

Worship Pastor

Lutho Ngebeza

Youth Pastor

Sarah Robins

Florida Road Hospitality

Burnette Taylor

Kloof Implementor

Candy Bowers

North Coast Implementor

Tim Kidgell

Faith at Home Pastor

Elzanne Marais

Kids Church Pastor

Derek Mayo

Florida Road Hospitality

Gary Blair

Preacher

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

info@otc.org.za

113 Florida Road, Morningside, Durban, 4001

Office Hours : 8-4pm, Monday to Thursday

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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

Due to Level One regulations, we are able to open our buildings again. We are so excited to welcome a limited number of our community back!

The vision of the Olive Tree Church is to Enjoy God, Love People, Release Potential and Impact Community

CHURCH ONLINE EXPERIENCE

SUNDAY SERVICES

FLORIDA ROAD

KLOOF

NORTH COAST

OFF THE CUFF

COURAGEOUS COMMUNITIES

MIDWEEK ONLINE GATHERING

CONNECT WITH A PASTOR

KIDS CHURCH

GET CONNECTED

HOSPITALITY TEAMS

GROW GROUPS

LIFE GROUPS

WE ARE DURBAN

OUR PODCASTS

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

PEOPLE

Ross Rodger

Paul Taylor

Natalie Naude

Justin Elson

Lutho Ngebeza

Sarah Robins

Burnette Taylor

Candy Bowers

Tim Kidgell

Elzanne Marais

Derek Mayo

Gary Blair

GET INVOLVED

GET IN TOUCH

Send us mail

CONTACT US

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