and Mrs. Hay left the congregation after a fruitful five years, in which the building of its first parsonage had already begun.
von Wielligh, but a short but successful three years passed before the couple finally responded to the entreaties of the Port Shepstone Reformed Church and left to work there.
Fourteen months later, he left for another line of work, producing yet another vacancy for an entire year.
Gobabis was the last Namibian town to boast 2 NGK congregations (besides Walvis Bay, which still has three).
The other daughter churches, in Keetmanshoop, Outjo, Grootfontein, Tsumeb, Otjiwarongo, Mariental, had all been reincorporated into their mother congregations years earlier.