Igreja Cristã de Aliança em Angola (ICAA)

President: Rev. Alberto Guala

STATISTICS (2022)

Church founded on February 4, 1885 by the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA); date that marks the arrival of the first missionaries of the United States Christian Alliance.

It has a mission called “Evangelical Mission of Mboca”. Founded in 1907 by Reverend Elmer E. Christ, this work was officially recognized by the Portuguese Government on June 21, 1910; B. O. No. 26.

On March 8, 1914, the first baptism of three natives, Maria Muendo, João Yedo and David Macosso, converted in 1911, was performed. This last one would become the first pastor of the missionary work, who was consecrated on the 23 of August of 1931.

On July 31, 1931, the Christian Missionary Alliance granted the local Church its autonomy.

In 1954, during the Cacongo Bonnet Conference, the Missionary Work of the Alliance welcomes, by integration, the Work of the Mission of Mr. Stober, founded in 1902, in the coastal part of Cabinda, while the C&MA dominated the whole countryside. In 1982, at the VIIth General Assembly members of Stober’s work voted unilaterally for the disintegration of the church.

On 29 July 1957, at the Kinkonzi Conference, the Mboca Mission was under the supervision of the Canadian Baptist Community “CBOMB”. With the worsening of the war of self-determination of Angola, the Canadian Missionaries leave the territory after four years of work in Cabinda.

After this disintegration, the Church was baptized as “Baptist Christian Church in Angola”, in honor of the last missionaries who worked with the church, which was soon renamed “Christian Alliance Church in Angola” with the acronym “ICAA” by decision of the Annual General Meeting in 1995.

NOTE: The outbreak of Angola’s first war of liberation from Portuguese colonial rule provoked an exodus of its populations to other neighboring countries in the Mayombe region, the cradle of the Christian Alliance in Angola, as well as the premature withdrawal of the missionaries. This caused serious problems that affected not only the society as well as the local church, highlighting the near-complete destruction of the physical structures of the Mboca Mission.

Despite this painful reality in which the Alliance church has plunged itself (high poverty, persecution of its leaders, loss of cadres and infrastructures to other denominations), we recognize the great contribution of some leaders who, with good spirit, elevated the good name of the work of the Alliance in Angola, notably Rev. André Conga da Costa.

Finally, in 1996, with the signs of the fall of the monopartidarism in Angola, which gave rise to the birth of the multiparty system, it was possible to establish new internal and external contacts until, on March 26, 1998, the Christian Alliance Church in Angola is again, accepted as a member of the World Alliance Community and of CREAA, at the Abidjan – Ivory Coast Conference.

Today the church functions normally, trying to mark its presence in every national space.

The Christian Alliance Church in Angola has been officially recognized by the Angolan state, since February 14, 1992 – “Diário da República” 1st series Nº7.