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Numbers 6:23-27. It was located in the present Church Street on the lot where the old Wium boarding house later stood, and in its vicinity several corpses were excavated during renovations, as it was customary at the time to bury people of any distinction inside the church. This faithful minister began with missions and education among the slaves and subjects, but he was not destined to attend the church's dedication, as he died on May 5 of that year, a victim of the fever (probably meaning malaria).
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peace; those who bring good tidings of good; those who say to Zion: Your God is King." In the afternoon he baptized three children. As a consultant, he visited the congregation every three months and in the meantime the services were observed by the sick roster
Mankadan. In January 1687, the first church council was appointed, consisting of one elder and one deacon. The deacon was Dirk Coetzee.
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members, to whom I go four times a year to administer the sacraments there, which during my absence by a sickness grid is observed so that this place becomes very significant over time, including all the years in suffering, to which the All-sufficient God wants to grant his grace and radiate us with his grace and favorable presence."
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The corner stone of the first building was laid in
February 1687. Thanks to the lovely cooperation of the congregation and great help provided by Governor Simon van der Stel, by whom the town was laid out and after whom it was also named, this little church could already be opened on 19 October 1687
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The first minute of the congregation that has been preserved, and which is quite possibly also the very first, is that of 15 October 1697. In the same year, Rev. Petrus Kalden from Cape Town reports to the
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