(The latter town had its own congregation, the Kamanjab Reformed Church, from 1969 to 1977, but its origin and history is poorly understood.)
A school operated for the children of GKSA worshippers here, named as the congregation eventually would be for a Monsignor Bierman, who depending on the source was either an education inspector for the church or an administrator for the SWA government.
There was no church there at Urumbe farm; therefore, the local GKSA folk, mostly descended from those on the Dorsland Trek who were repatriated to SWA from 1928-1930.
Around 1948, work began on a church building for the Vanjaarsveld district under the architect Max Ecker, a German who had retired there.
According to legend, a member took the money to buy cattle and a windmill for himself, and was then forced to pay for the building, completed in 1949, out of his own pocket.