DIOCESE OF CHRIST THE KING
Churches in Johannesburg

The aims of this diocese are firstly and foremost, to offer devoted and creative worship to almighty God in every congregation and in our individual lives. We long to deepen our life of prayer and worship and to make attractive public worship available to parishioners and neighbours in every place. Secondly we aim to develop the people of God for service. From small beginnings there are now about 400 fully trained lay ministers in the Diocese, working together with church councillors and counsellors, Sunday Schools teachers, youth leaders musicians and many others for whom the less-than-20 full-time clergy serve as role models, branch managers, co-ordinators and mentors. Thirdly we have to interact with a society in urban and peri-urban South Africa, which is in development and transformation. From one school in 1990 we now run three, two of them in Orange Farm, with nearly 3000 children in our daily care. We work with early childhood development centres, poverty alleviation programmes, health, nutrition and wellness strategies, environmental issues, women’s development activities, care of orphans and vulnerable children, and advocacy for justice and peace. These goals rest on practical efforts to develop an effective, efficient, sustainable and solvent diocese which can support its programmes of worship, training and outreach, and continue to grow its footprint in the communities of southern Gauteng. It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Revd Canon William Mostert has been elected as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Christ the King. Since Monday some of the endorsers made critical and important contributions. We also realize that much of what is contained in this Call needs deeper collective reflection and the diverse insights of both those who have endorsed it and many others who did not yet have a chance. Therefore this is an invitation to go on deep journeys together in times to come. This huge area was divided along an arbitrary horizontal line in 1922 to create the Diocese of Johannesburg. The story of its life and work is told in Bishop Peter Lee’s book, Compromise and Courage. Regular incidents of violence included three major clashes with multiple deaths and injuries in Sebokeng and Boipatong in 1991 and Inevitably many of these worship in primitive structures and church-building is a constant demand, if not the key priority. It has a scheduled programme, welcomes groups to create their own agendas, and is open every Wednesday for QUIET WEDNESDAYs.