The earliest records show that St Thomas Church started meeting in the 1930’s as a church plant from Holy Trinity Church Gardens, into the racially mixed suburb of District Six. The church met at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) hall. At that time, the congregation consisted of people from different cultural backgrounds, all living in the same communities and attending and serving at the new church. An early account says that there were four services on a Sunday: Firstly an outdoors service on one of the main roads of the community, secondly the morning service in the hall, thirdly the adult Sunday school classes, and then fourthly an evening evangelistic service.  In the late 1960s the Group Areas Act of the Apartheid Government came into effect. This forced people who were “not white” to leave their homes in District 6. People were forcibly relocated to an area called the Cape Flats, a distance out of the city, including this area called Heideveld.