BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PHC IN ZAMBIA
Mission work under the auspices of the Pentecostal Holiness Church began in Central Africa in 1950. Yearly visits were made into this area for some time by missionaries living in South Africa. In 1953 the first missionary of the denomination located permanently in Central Africa.
In 1956 the Central Africa conference was organized covering what is now known as Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It operated as such until early June 1966, when the Zimbabwe Conference was officially organized as a separate conference.
At the Quadrennial Conference in 1974, the churches in Malawi formed their own conference, thus leaving the Zambia conference as a separate entity too.
In 1989 the Zambia conference was divided into three; the Copperbelt Conference, the Northern/Luapula Conference and the Southern Conference. 1995 saw the organization of the Eastern Conference from within the Conference with all the churches stretching from Luangwa Bridge to Chama.
We now have six conferences in Zambia namely; Southern, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Northern and North Western.