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The Dutch Reformed Church in Burgersdorp is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Synod of Eastern Cape in South Africa. [1] It is the eighth oldest congregation in this Synod and was founded in 1846, [2] 54 years after Graaff-Reinet. In the entire NG Church it was the 34th foundation, all of which except Pietermaritzburg (1839 ...
Burgersdorp is a medium-sized town in Walter Sisulu in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.. In 1869 a Theological Seminary was established here by the Gereformeerde Kerk, but in 1905 it was moved to Potchefstroom, acting as an instrument in the formation of the PUK in 1919, then becoming the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education ...
Eric James Bodington was an eminent Anglican priest [1] and author in the early decades of the twentieth century. [2]Born on 17 December 1862, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford [3] and ordained in 1886. [4]
Christ Church, Church Street, Burgersdorp Architecturally, it is a high-roofed late-Victorian church building with neo—Gothic features. The east end has a facade broken by three lancet windows heavily rusticated and underlined by a plaster pediment. The side facades have three round-head casements.
Burgersdorp was for decades the largest Reformed church in the Cape Colony and because the town housed the Church's Theological School from 1869 to the end of 1904, also the most important. In 1872, when there were only 10 congregations in the Boer Republic and seven in the Colony, Burgersdorp had a membership of 989, compared to Reddersburg in ...
The Reformed Church in Rustenburg, South Africa has agreement with Koshin Presbyterian Church in Korea to support evangelism, and establishing new multicultural churches in Rustenburg area. The church cooperates with the Presbyterian Church of Brazil in missions in Angola and Mozambique. It is also involved in a Reformed church plant in Hanoi ...
[1] [2] In 1880 the family moved to Burgersdorp. Up till 1890 he went to school in Burgersdorp. In 1890 his father, a pastor moved to Middelburg and Postma attend the Christian school there. He passed standard 10 (grade 12) in 1896 in Burgersdorp. He passed the intermediate exam of the University of Good Hope in Cape Town.
Daniël Pieter Rossouw was young when his father died, and then his mother moved from Cape Town to Burgersdorp, where he worked in a store to support her in her old age.. Enrolled at the local Albert Academy, he gained the attention of the headmaster, Dr. John Brebner, a popular figure among the local you