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The congregation completed its parsonage and built a spacious church hall. After long years of collections to build it, the church was finally completed in the early 1950s. The membership grew from around 400 in 1939 to over 800 in 1951. In 1961, Gobabis-South separated from the mother congregation,
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At the second council meeting, on March 2, 1940, Prop. F.J. Hay was selected, and on May 18 of that year, he was confirmed as pastor of the congregation. The Rev. and Mrs. Hay left the congregation after a fruitful five years, in which the building of its first parsonage had already begun. After a
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