About the CCAP-Nkhoma Synod
The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod is a bible loving Reformed community in Malawi confessionally and historically linked to the 16th century Reformation of the Church in the Netherlands through the missional enterprises of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Western Cape Synod in South Africa. The CCAP-Nkhoma Synod subscribes to the following confessional formularies and the Three Reformed Forms of Unity: The Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dordt.
Origin and History
The origin of the CCAP Nkhoma Synod goes back to the arrival of the Reverends Andrew Charles Murray and Theunis C. Botha Vlok who established the first mission station at Mvera in the territory of Traditional Authority Chiwere in Dowa district on 28 November 1889. Before 1900, the following mission stations which later became congregations were established: Kongwe (189), Nkhoma (1896) and Malembo and Livlezi were taken over from the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland in 1895.
Before 1924, Nkhoma Synod was called the Dutch Reformed Church Mission (D.R.C.M). It became a Presbytery in 1924 then same year when the Presbyteries of Blantyre and Livingstonia formed a federation of churches called the CCAP. Nkhoma Presbytery joined the CCAP in 1926. When the Presbyteries of Blantyre, Livingstonia and Nkhoma attained statuses of Synods in 1956, the Synod of the CCAP became the General Synod of the CCAP (later the General Assembly).