Die Nasate van die Rynse Sendelinge in Suid-Afrika

Die Nasate van die Rynse Sendelinge in Suid-Afrika (The Descendants of the Rhenish Missionaries in South Africa)

Raad Vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Pretoria, 1991, hardover, Afrikaans text, illustrated, 303 pages, reference library stamp to title page, otherwise condition: very good.

The Rhenish Church in South Africa is a small Protestant church denomination in South Africa consisting of 11 congregations, all in the South Western Cape. In the 1940s, more than 100 years after the Rhenish Missionary Society began its work at the Cape , the society decided that its original task was completed. Therefore, it negotiated with the Dutch Reformed Missionary Church about the transfer of its mission stations and congregations to this church. Many people at the various stations were dissatisfied with this possibility, but the society ignored it and continued with the transfer to the Dutch Reformed Missionary Church. Only Wupperthal decided to join the Moravian church. In 1951, Rev. Gideon Joseph Thomas, who in 1935 became the second and last indigenous Rhenish member to be ordained as a minister, and 108 members founded the Independent Rhenish Church. The RSG did not recognize the new church and considered it a breakaway movement. The first members of the church were members of the Bellville, Matroosfontein and Elsiesrivier congregations. Eventually the name was changed to the Rhenish Church in South Africa and in 2016 there were 11 congregations grouped into two regions, each with its own regional committee: Elsiesrivier, Matroosfontein, Atlantis, Belhar, Eersterivier, Ravensmead, Belhar, Mitchells Plain, Bellville, Kraaifontein, Clanwilliam and Doringbos.