In the year 1999, about one hundred individuals came together to form the Manzini Fellowship Church (MFC). The church’s first pastor was Dr Charles Mahlangu, and he served with five elders (O.B Macwele, O.M Dlamini, H.G Shongwe, G.R Bhembe, and A.E.F Simelane). One of the elders, Andy Simelane, was called a “roving elder” because he went from cell to cell encouraging the brethren. Hence, when Charles left the pastorate to go and take up the principal’s position at the Evangelical Seminary of South Africa (ESSA) in 2002, the church called Andy Simelane to take over the pastorate. In the same year, the church began to support church-planting work in northern Mozambique where they sent two brothers as missionaries. What started out as two churches with ten members in 2002 have now (2019l become 20 churches with over 200 members. The latest testimony from there has been the conversion of a Muslim leader, who has had to leave the area to avoid being killed. In 2003 they also started to support a new church plant in Thembisa, just outside Pretoria in South Africa. Some members of this church drove all the way from Thembisa to attend the meetings (see their picture below).

For many years the Manzini Fellowship Church remained lonely because they could not find any church within Swaziland that held on the same biblical belief.  The breakthrough came in February 2006 when they invited Pastor Martin Holdt of Constantia Park Baptist Church to minister among them. Martin introduced them to a whole host of Reformed conferences in South Africa, such as the Shepherds’ Conference, the Grace Ministers’ Conference, the reformed Evangelical FamilConference (Skogheim) and the Sola 5 Conference. Since then they have not missed a single one of these conferences. To top it all up, the church joined the Sola 5 family of churches in 2007 when Sola 5 had its annual conference in Zambia.
The Manzini Fellowship Church has a very active membership, comprising mostly professional and business people. The church members participate in church-based ministries meant to reach out to non-Christians in obedience to the Great Commission. Presently MFC has has 8 such ministries some of these are ladies ministry, men’s ministry, Sunday school ministry and a youth fellowship ministry, couples ministry, building ministry, evangelism ministry & malihambe ministry.