Outjo Reformed Church (NGK)

The Outjo Reformed Church is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in northwestern Namibia.
The congregation was founded on November 13, 1943, with 329 confirmed and 600 total members seceding from its mother church, the Otjiwarongo Reformed Church (NGK). The first church council included seven elders and seven deacons. Otjiwarongo contributed £500 toward a church hall in Outjo. Collections brought the total to over £1,000. The first pastor, the Rev. S.H. van der Spuy, was invested on April 15, 1944. Notwithstanding 22 posts, he served the congregation until 1952.
Outjo was, after the secession of the Kamanjab Reformed Church (NGK) in 1953, the northwesternmost congregation of the Cape Church, with a footprint larger than Free State province. Bordered on the north by Angola and on the west by the Skeleton Coast, it included the Kaokoveld and Ovamboland. Among the natural wonders included was the Vingerklip, the Versteende Woud. The congregation outgrew its meeting hall and began raising money to build a new church in the early 1950s. In 2010, the membership had reduced to 284 confirmed and 93 baptized members, but those numbers had rebounded to 323 and 114 respectively.

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