With the discovery of gold on the Reef and the influx of miners from Great Britain, small pockets of church work in the Main Denominations (English = Anglican and Methodist; Welsh= Baptist; Scottish = Presbyterian) began to spring up led at first by laity.  

The first Anglican group met at a house in Elsburg, and they petitioned the Bishop who (since Boksburg was the first mining township proclaimed on the East Rand - proclaimed a few days before Johannesburg) sent a missionary priest to Boksburg to establish a parish in 1890