ANTHEM WORSHIP

OUR WORSHIP JOURNEY

The Church of the Good Shepherd in Durban North changed its name to Anthem in January 2017. The church was birthed as a community in 1901 and has a rich heritage. The current facility was built in the 1970s around the same time as when it broke away from the Presbyterian denomination into autonomy. The church is still pioneering today, wanting to be a blessing to the city of Durban and beyond.

In 2014, there were significant prophetic words spoken over the community, specifically with regard to worship music and particularly one spoken by a recognized prophetic voice…

“There is a particular anointing coming upon your worship. God says you are to invest time and money into sound and production around worship because something of worship is going to crack open in your church in a new way. There are going to be songwriters and creative types that are going to flow from there that is going to begin to lift the lid of worship, and the Lord says there’s going to be a sound that’s going to capture Africa, a sound that’s going to capture the uniqueness of Durban, even as God raised up a group called Friends First in apartheid days to be a prophetic sound for this nation, even so, God says there is something of the redemptive history in your church that is going to reclaim a sound sending justice and mercy.  You need to know that your worship will carry an element that will release decrees around justice and mercy.”