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Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in Suider-Africa
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Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa
P.O. Box 20764
Windhoek
Namibia (Africa)
Address-No.: 13241 / 1116

The church was established through missionary work of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (cf. no. 1). The first synod was constituted in 1975 with only three congregations. The church grew in subsequent years. In 1987 it was divided into three independent regional synods which were held together by an umbrella body called the General Meeting of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Africa (ERCA). Four years later the three churches decided to merge again as a General Synod with the three churches functioning as regional synods (ERCA Kavango, Central, and Ovambo Regional Synods). In 1995 the Reformed Church in Caprivi, which had also originated from DRC missionary efforts, joined the ERCA and became the fourth Regional Synod of the Church. In 1995 the General Synod decided in principle to join the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (cf. South Africa no. 4). Union was officially announced in April 1997 at the synod of the Uniting Church in East London, South Africa.
 

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Statistic data of church

Members
total: 6850
Parishes
(conventionally): 31
house fellowships
(Number of growing parishes): 0
Ordained clergy
total: 24
 
no women´s ordination
Elders/Presbyters
total: 0
Deacons
total: 0
  no information about deacons
Missionaries
total: 0
 
no information about missionaries working abroad
Baptismal practise
no information about baptism
Godparents
No information about godparents
Lord's Supper
Frequency per annum: 0
Newspapers/ Periodicals
no information about publication of magazines
Theological training facilities

 
Number: 1

Schools providing general education
no information about other schools
Founded in
1975
Organizational structures
not communicated
Official languages
  • Afrikaans
  • English
  • Portuguese
  • Mara
  • Herrero
  • Kwangali
  • Lozi
  • Ndonga
  • Damara
Confessions
  • Apostles´ Creed
  • Athanasian Creed
  • Canon of Dort (1618/19)
  • Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
  • Nicene Creed (381)

 

last update: 27.02.2004
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