Frederick Samuel Modise

Life

Modise was born and grew up in a village inhabited by the Tswana tribe, near Hammanskraal in the Transvaal of South Africa. As an adult, Modise started his own businesses in the carpentry and funeral industries.

In middle age, Modise suffered a serious stomach ailment, his equipment was stolen, and he went bankrupt. Additionally, Modise's children died. Modise went to various prophets and healers within the Church without being healed. Afterwards, he turned to various seers and medicine men, with the same disappointing results.

In 1962, Modise was admitted to the Coronation Hospital in Johannesburg, where it was deemed his disease incurable. On 12 September 1962 at midnight, a voice told him to pray. He heard the same voice the following night at midnight again telling him to pray and then to follow it. He saw a house with a thatched roof and he was told to climb on the rafters. There he saw a great crowd of people of all races kneeling down and praying, facing the east. This place, he later told us, was Silo. He was asked if he could hear the prayers of the people. He replied that he only heard them pray 'for the sake of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ' because they did not know the Lord's Prayer. He told us that the whole world did not know how to pray in the right way. He was also given secret instructions on how to 'pray spiritually' after confessing his sins. He was told to teach people how to pray like this so that God could hear their prayers. On 14 September at midnight, the voice told him to get up from the bed, and that he would be home on 3 October 1962. The voice now said 'I am Jehovah your God who is discharging you from this hospital'. This was on a Saturday, which the voice said was the Sabbath. He proceeded to 'spiritually heal' fifteen people in the hospital after they had confessed their sins, before he was discharged on 3 October as he had been promised.

International Pentecost Holiness Church

International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) was founded in Meadowlands by Reverend Frederick Modise in 1962. This would mark the largest schism in the Zion Christian Church since 1948.

He built a church and immediately began spreading the message and pray for the sick. Many were healed and joined Rev Frederick Modise's church which he initially called the International Pentecost Holiness Church. In 1970, he moved the church headquarters to Oskraal, outside Pretoria. A large local church, called Jerusalem was built.

Rev. Frederick Modise's healing preaching produced great church growth and eventually grew also out of these premises. In May 1991, South African President FW de Klerk, inaugurated the church's new headquarters Silo, in Zuurbekom, west of Johannesburg.Reverend Fredrick Modise met with several South African Presidents during his lifetime.

Legacy

His Holy Grace the Comforter Glayton Modise (August 1940 - February 2016), the son of Frederick, led the International Pentecost Holiness Church which has more than 3 million converts and continues the work of God.