Lambert Road Baptist Church


Lambert Road Baptist Church is an evangelical church located in the suburb of Morningside, in Durban, South Africa. This church is a member of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa.

History

Among the British Settlers of 1820 was a small group of Baptists who established the first Baptist Church in South Africa, in Salem. Lambert Road Baptist Church was planted in Durban in 1904 by the Durban Central and Bulwer Road Baptist Churches to minister to "the Stamford Hill area", what is today the suburb of Morningside. During the 1950s and 1960s the church had an all age Sunday school of 200, and a significant young adult ministry.

Pastors

Pastors who have served at Lambert Road Baptist Church over the years are:
NameYears
Richard Raine Miller1904–1906
Dr Alfred Hall1906–1909
Thomas Aitken1910–1913
George William Cross1913–1918
Arthur Henry Chapman1918–1922
Henry James Batts1922–1926
Robert Fortune Lindsay1927–1943
Kenneth Richardson1943–1945
Llewelyn Glyndwr Tudor1946–1954
Prof John Norman Jonsson1954–1960
Cedric Winter1961–1971
Robert Jardine Baston1972–1993
Stephen McKibbin1994–1998
Dr Terence Barton McGee1999–2004
Patrick Haynes2006–2007
Gareth Simpson2008–2011

Vision

The vision of the Lambert Road Baptist Church, captured in their logo, is to be:
The first pastor at Lambert Road Baptist Church, Richard Miller, when he arrived in Durban, was quoted as saying, "What faith and hope, how much of love and labour, how many prayers, how many tears, have gone to building the fabric that has now arisen in the Lambert Road Baptist Church, is known to God."