The Gobabis Reformed Church was born of the migration of around 2,000 Angola-Afrikaners, descendants of the Dorsland Trek emigrants of the 1880s who mostly adhered to the GKSA and mostly returned to South West Africa (SWA) in 1929.
writes as follows about the Afrikaners' role in the founding of the settlement: "The Particular Synod of the Cape Reformed Church had, on May 26, 1930, delegated the Rev.
van Jaarsveld to seek out members from Angola and South Africa and organize a church to guide them in the Word and the Sacrament.
Van Jaarseveld blessed the inauguration with the words of Ephesians 2:19-22: 'Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
An emotional moment arose when the last minutes from a meeting in Humpata, Angola, were read, approved, and signed by the council.
On Saturday, June 7, 1930 (the Gobabis congregation's foundation date), the Reformed Church members gathered at Helew 408 farm, near the house of P.C.
Van Jaarsveld, the chairman, explained to the congregation that the existing Angola church council had been dissolved and a new one needed to be elected, which it then was by secret ballot.
As in Angola, a cattle fund was established to which people were expected to contribute to the best of their ability.The remains of the farm church still stand.
The new congregation immediately set about acquiring church lands in the Gobabis area after leaving Portuguese Angola.
du Plessis placed the Holy Bible on the lectern, and elder M. Van der Merwe placed the Psalter by its side.
Van Vuuren was born September 14, 1867, as Susanna Catherina du Plessis in Grivelfontein, near Rustenburg, and died on July 7, 1952.
The general trend of GKSA congregations in Namibia in the first decade and a half of the 21st century was stable, except for major declines in Aranos, the Grootfontein, and the Karasburg