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16 by the end of 2014. The members' efforts continued, however, in 2016 outside of GKSA auspices. Even before the
Middellande Synod (primarily consisting of black churches) and its primarily white or mixed-race counterparts were reclassified into the Klassis format, denominations seceded from Aranos, including Namib-Kus in 2007 and Khomas-Hoogland in 2009. The three congregations were all members until 2016 of the Klassis Waterberg, along with Outjo, Otjiwarongo, and
173:. The first services were held June 20, 1930, in Kemel farm. On June 21, a service was held at Kema farm, beginning the Gibeon Reformed Church. Services were held on the Omrah farm until June 20, 1959, when the church building finally opened along with the first Classis in South West Africa. From 1940 to 1959, the congregation was also known as the Omrah Reformed Church.
105:. It left the denomination in 2016. With 16 confirmed and five baptized members at the end of 2014, it was the second smallest Reformed Church in Namibia, after the Karasburg Reformed Church, which had 12 confirmed and two baptized members. In 2015, the Aranos congregation grew to 19 confirmed and six baptized members.
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217:, Dm. H.A. Louw laid the keystone of the Aranos Reformed Church. The members worked hard to build the church under council guidance, especially a builder named Kiepie Erasmus. The builders deviated from the architect's plan, however, for instance completing the concrete tower with cement bricks.
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Churches), prompting the building committee to consider building a church there. The town, around 175 km from
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198:, on the banks of which Aranos lies. In 1954, Aranos was granted town status, and in 1957, a town board was founded. The town grew quickly at first. During the tenure of Dr. D.C.S. van der Merwe (pastor in
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294:(af) Schalekamp, Dm. M.E. (chairman: edition commission). 2001. Die Almanak van die Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika vir die jaar 2002. Potchefstroom: Administratiewe Buro.
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Mariental Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) (then Gibeon) was founded, until 1930, the church council only recognized five congregations in
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