“Mother Christinah Mokotudi Nku is counted among the greatest women of the Christian faith, such as Susanna Wesley (the mother of the man who started
the Methodist Movement, the Reverend John Wesley), Katherine von Bora (the wife of Martin Luther), and Anne Hutchinson (the first woman preacher for New England). These three greatest women, among others, played a pivotal role from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Mother Prophet Christinah Nku, born in poverty and obscurity, brought the Gospel from a tiny muddy area called Small Farms in Evaton and pioneered a movement of the Apostolic Church, wearing
blue and white regalia or robes. She made a significant contribution to the traditionally male-dominated Christian churches and advanced the ministry of
the Apostolic Churches, like Vibia Perpetua who lived in North Africa at Carthage, where Christians from Rome had brought the Gospel and where vigorous Christian churches were springing up.”
Reverend Gift Moerane Former Executive Mayor of Emfuleni
Born into South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church in 1894, Christinah Nku experienced numerous visions as a young girl. Plagued with illness as a young woman, she was told by God she would not die. A decade later, she received a vision of a large church with twelve doors, and then in 1939, a vision to build it
not far from Johannesburg. In her dreams, Christinah recalled the healing of the crippled bystander in John’s Gospel, which led her to focus on the healing ministry in her own religious life.