Our Pastor

Pastor (Dr) Bagcine Bandile Ciliza is a Baptist Union Accredited Minister and is a registered Affiliate of ACRP (Association of Christian Religious Practitioners) with the Council for General Ministry Practitioners and is designated as a Religious Professional. Registration number 2018-G-01324.

With ministry experience of 20 years, Bagcine has been the senior pastor of Nancefield Baptist Church since 2018 and has previously pastored three churches. In his early years of ministry, he worked for Scripture Union as a fieldworker assigned to Johannesburg surrounding towns. His sermons impact generations through various outreaches. Bagcine is also a selling author and he speaks at conferences countrywide. Some may know him as a pastor, others as an inspiring preacher, an orator, a relationship strategist and still others as a beloved coach, mentor and loyal friend.

Pastor Bagcine Ciliza was born in East London, South Africa on the 3rd of November. A charismatic preacher and sound teacher of the Bible. Bagcine has sounded his voice through radio (Link FM Christian radio as a host in the early 2000s and has appeared on Tshwane TV over a long period of time for motivational sessions. His love for God’s people also saw him appointed as Ward Committee Member within the City Of Tshwane Municipality in the 2011/12 period.

His experiences nurtured his unique call to the ministry of salvation and honed his distinct ability to transcend tradition in his delivery of the gospel, through widening spiritual parameters in order to reach diverse people of manifold backgrounds, cultures, and denominations. He was ordained an apostle in June 2012. Today Pastor Bagcine says, he has a better understanding of why God called him. Pastor Bagcine has also worked to put his energy on his creative side. In November 2004, he released his book, Being a generational leader, a first-person account of his own experience with an unexpected setback, the mistakes, messes and errors of his life as a young pastor. To date, he is an author of the following books:- * WHY MEN OF GOD FALL * REMEDY OF AFFECTION * OUR PERFECT WEDDING, MY IMPERFECT MARRIAGE * BEING A GENERATIONAL LEADER * RE-INVENT * MAN IN TEARS * EXCUSE ME