The Free Church of Scotland currently has over 100 congregations in Scotland, as well as 2 in London and 5 in North America, and sister Churches founded by mission work in India, Peru and South Africa. The Church also has a full time college in the heart of Edinburgh for the training of Ministers and other Christian workers and sustains an extensive Missionary programme relative to the size of the church. Dating from 1843 but with its roots in the Reformation, it owes its distinctive title to its historical struggle to remain ‘free’ from state interference in its internal affairs. It has close and active relations with many other Reformed churches of Jesus Christ throughout the world and stands firmly in the tradition which accepts the Bible in its entirety as the Word of God and, therefore, derives its forms of teaching, worship, ministry and government from it.

In 1919 “het Potchefstroomse Universiteitskollege voor Christelijke Hooger Onderwys” was established, and in 1922 the PUK was subsumed under the University of South Africa. In those years the theological department of the PUK came into being, and had developed into a fully fledged Theological Faculty by 1930. In 1951 the PUK was recognised as an independent university which would be known as the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys). In 1904, a new institution was born as a result of a merger, namely the North West University. 

The Faculty bases its teaching on the Bible as the Word of God, the truths of which are embodied in the Three Forms of Unity.