WHAT IS IESA?

The Evangelical Synodal Church of Angola, is a group of local churches, who accept the doutrine and rules approved by the General synod of the Denomination.

Historically IESA is the fruit of the work of the "Alliance Missionnaire Evangelique"- with headquarters in Switzerland, known in Angola as "Missão Evangélica Filafricana".

IESA was found on November 30th 1897 in Kalukembe - Huila, by Heli Chatelain, a Swiss missionary, who was tenaciously opposed to the oppression of the blacks and to the slave trade, wich was a current commodity at the time.

IESA'S DOCTRINAL BASE ( Declaration of Faith)

a) We believe without reserves in the complete inspiration of the Holy Scriptures given by God to teach, correct, instruct in justice, so that the man of God be perfect in God, in both faith and conduct.

b) We believe in one and only God existing fully in three persons:
    God the Father: Creator of the heavens and the earth, wich he protects by his unchanging love and power.
    God the Son: Jesus Christ manifested in flesh. We believe in His glorious pre-existence, in His virgin birth, in His pure human life, in His divine miracles, in His death in subistitution, in His physical resurrection, in His being taken to heaven, where He lives for us as our High priest and advocate, and in His second coming in power and glory.
   God the Holy Spirit: We believe in the absolute deity and in the person of the Holy Spirit who regenerates, santifies, iluminates and enables us for for a holy life of witness, fr all who believe in the Lord Jesus.

c) We believe in free salvation from Jesus Christ given to repentant sinners, who having been created in the image of God, of His own free will took on our sins before God.

d) We believe in the Spiritual unity of all those who have believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for their salvation...

e) We believe in the existence of Satan and his demons as a malignant personality, causer of sin, and therefore, God's and man's main enimy.

f) We believe in physical resurrection for all the dead, with believers going to an eternal blessing and unbelievers going to judgmente and eternal punishment/