It covered an extensive territory and took its name from what was then the major population center, though the coastal cities later surpassed Usakos's growth.
In 1952, six years after its foundation, the congregation had 900 confirmed members out of 1,400 souls, of whom more than two-thirds lived in Usakos proper.
The congregation stretched from the Namib Desert through growing levels of vegetation to the verdant hills east of Usakos.
In Walvis Bay, the ribbon on the NGK church was cut by the Rev.
P. Visser, who would several years later leave for Vanrhynsdorp, laid the keystone in Walvis Bay.
Tydeman, one of the oldest members of the congregation who had campaigned for years to build a church in South West Africa's premier beach resort.