St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church - Gibeon,Hardap Region

<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church - Gibeon,Hardap Region </TITLE> <base target=_top> </HEAD> <body background="/art/backgrnd/ltbstco.gif" bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <h1> Welcome to St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church </h1> <b>P O Box 17<br>The Old Village<br>Gibeon, Hardap Region 9000<br> Namibia<br>+264+63+251089/251011<br></center> </b><br><hr><h2>Staff / Leaders</h2> <table width=80%> <TR><TD><b>Rt. Rev.</b> </TD><TD><b>Gregory G M Ingram, Bishop</b><br> </TD><TD><A HREF="mailto:hansews@hotmail.com"> Send an Email...</A><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Rev.</b> </TD><TD><b>Hendrik /Gariseb, Presiding Elder</b><br> </TD><TD><A HREF="mailto:hansews@hotmail.com"> Send an Email...</A><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Rev.</b> </TD><TD><b>Willem Moses Hanse, Pastor</b><br> </TD><TD><A HREF="mailto:topnaarpe@hotmail.com"> Send an Email...</A><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Rev.</b> </TD><TD><b>Hans Petersen, Assistant Pastor</b><br> </TD><TD><A HREF="mailto:topnaarpe@hotmail.com"> Send an Email...</A><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Bro.</b> </TD><TD><b>Salomon J. Witbooi, Treasurer</b><br> </TD><TD><A HREF="mailto:topnaarpe@hotmail.com"> Send an Email...</A><br></TD></TR> </table> <br><hr><h2> Weekly Schedule</h2> <table width=60%> <TR><TD><b>Sunday Church School</b> </TD><TD><b>08h30 Sundays</b><br></TD></tr> <TR><TD><b>Worship Service</b> </TD><TD><b>10h00 Sundays</b><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Women's Missionary Society</b> </TD><TD><b>Sunday's at 15h00</b><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Youth Ministries</b> </TD><TD><b>Mon & Thurs at 17h00</b><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Church Choir Rehearsals</b> </TD><TD><b>Tue & Sat at 19h00</b><br></TD></TR> <TR><TD><b>Brassband Rehearsals</b> </TD><TD><b>19h00 Wednesdays</b><br></TD></TR> </table><br> <hr><h3> Brief History</h3> The St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church is one of the founding churches in the Gibeon Presiding Elder District of the Namibia Annual Conference. Its founder, the late Rev. Markus Witbooi was the secretary since time memorial and important historical documents of both the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Witbooi Traditional Authority is being safeguarded in the archives of St. Mark's A M E Church, Gibeon. The ageing and later blind late Rev. Markus Witbooi, one of the founding fathers of the church, worked very hard to establish the foundation his son, the Rev. Dr. Hendrik Witbooi inherited in 1978 and vastly expanded. During the latter's leadership a modern church building with the state-of-the-art equipment such as a pipe-organ was dedicated in 1991 by Bishop Robert Thomas, Jr. Due to his appointment as Namibia's first Deputy Prime Minister and also added duties as Presiding Elder, he was succeeded in September 1998 by the Rev. Willem Moses Hanse. Rev. Hanse has travelled widely in the Namibia Annual Conference following his studies at R R Wright Theological Seminary (1980-1982) and served faithfully at Daniel Dausab Memorial AME Church, Rehoboth; Bethel Memorial AME Church, Luderitz; St. Johns AME Church, Walvisbay, St. Bartholomew AME Church, Arandis and his last church was Moriah AME Church, /Uibis. He is married to a qualified school teacher Mrs. Anna-Marie Hanse(nee Boois)and have two sons (Jarques and Gregory). <br><br><hr><h3> Our Activities</h3> Music ministry consist of the Church Choir (consisting mainly of young adults), the Senior Choir (consisting mainly of elderly people in the pews) and the Brassband. We were at the centre of the Namibian liberation struggle. We provided services to the community with the following projects: * Halley's Kindergarden * Community Health Clinic * Automobile Workshop * AME Community Private Primary School * AME Community Private Secondary School <br><br><hr><center><br> St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church is associated with: African Methodist Episcopal (AME)<br>for additional information, see the<a href="/denomlst.htm" target=_top> denomination links</a>.<br><br>For information about this page contact: <a HREF="mailto:hansews@hotmail.com">hansews@hotmail.com</a><br><br>Last Update: Sun Nov 05 13:38:48 (CST)<br>This page has been accessed: <b>5009</b> times since Mon Aug 09 10:59:23 1999.<br><br><hr><br>Search for other churches in the <a href="/ch_srch.htm#top" target=_top>Church Directory</a><br> <br>To apply for a FREE Web page like this for your church <a href="/appform.html" target=_top>Click Here.</a><br> <br>This Web page is sponsored by <a href= "/index.html" target=_top>Net Ministries</a>.<a href="/index.html" target=_top><br><IMG align=absmiddle hspace=4 src="/art/minilogo.gif"width=124,height=46 alt="[Net Ministries Home]" border=0></a></center></body></html>