THE VISION . THE DREAM
Our History
When Andrew Selley and his wife Emma were sent from New Covenant Church, now known as Storehouse Church, to plant Joshua Generation Church in Cape Town in 1999, they believed God was calling them to build this new church in a way that reflects the pattern we see in the Bible. They dreamed that returning to the New Testament model would not only shape where they lived but also influence and impact churches far beyond Cape Town and South Africa, changing how the world sees and does church.
Andrew served within the apostolic leadership of NCMI, a first-generation apostolic movement, from 1999 to 2006. Under the leadership of Dudley Daniel, Andrew learned how to build church according to the Bible rather than denominational structures and developed a deeper understanding of leadership and authority when working as a team.
Together with the leadership team of JoshGen, Andrew sensed the Lord speaking about starting something new where the spotlight shifts from apostolic teams to ordinary saints doing the work of the ministry, as we see in Ephesians 4:11-16. Therefore, we see ourselves as a second-generation apostolic movement.
And so, we started in June 2011 with just 35 people in a room, and a dream to see the church restored to reflect what we see in the New Testament. We began connecting with churches around the world who sensed the Lord leading them to be part of this movement, and are grateful for our early partners Oxygen Life Church and JoshGen in South Africa, and Living Hope on the Isle of Man. City on a Hill Church, South Africa, and Estação 337 in Brazil soon followed.
We have since worked together to strengthen and restore the body of Christ, and these churches have become base churches within our movement, serving others in our field. The Lord also added Jonathan and Annette Stanfield, Brad and Angela Verreynne, William and Pamela Marias, and Ryan and Lelani Kingsley from these churches to lead alongside Andrew and Emma to minister and build into our partnering churches.
Early on, in 2012, more than 300 saints from many nations gathered for our first international conference, meeting together in Cape Town, South Africa – a significant moment that showed how the Lord was knitting us together and growing us. This was closely followed by the Conference on the Isle of Man in 2013, where a group of 70 South Africans went over, most of them saints who travelled at their own expense to join in what God was doing.
In 2020, as COVID-19 locked down the world, we saw a sharp increase in the number of churches added and new nations opened to us. Amongst those is Living Waters Church in the Netherlands, planted by Peter and Eefje de Korte during lockdown. Today, they have become a base church in Europe, having planted multiple congregations, flourishing in a very secular culture.
Since then, we have also seen our footprint grow in North America and Australasia, as Andrew and the leadership team felt that God was sending his family to move to the United States in 2024, to establish a new field and serve the churches of this region. And, in 2025, Brad and Angela Verreynne, along with the leadership team, felt that God was sending their family to Australia to spearhead the work in Australasia and break open new nations in that region.
Along with these families, there have been many leaders and believers who moved to new cities and countries to plant or support church plants, some of which include New Zealand, Canada, England, Taiwan, Mauritius, Switzerland, Ireland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia.
Today, we are grateful to partner with churches in more than 20 nations and to see so many of our partners flourishing and planting new congregations as they grow. We believe God’s plan for the church unfolds as every part plays its unique role and we look forward to seeing more healthy churches built as we keep moving forward.
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