Welcome to St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church

P O Box 17
The Old Village
Gibeon, Hardap Region 9000
Namibia
+264+63+251089/251011

Staff / Leaders

Rt. Rev.	Gregory G M Ingram, Bishop	Send an Email...
Rev.	Hendrik /Gariseb, Presiding Elder	Send an Email...
Rev.	Willem Moses Hanse, Pastor	Send an Email...
Rev.	Hans Petersen, Assistant Pastor	Send an Email...
Bro.	Salomon J. Witbooi, Treasurer	Send an Email...

Weekly Schedule

Sunday Church School	08h30 Sundays
Worship Service	10h00 Sundays
Women's Missionary Society	Sunday's at 15h00
Youth Ministries	Mon & Thurs at 17h00
Church Choir Rehearsals	Tue & Sat at 19h00
Brassband Rehearsals	19h00 Wednesdays

Brief History

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 Markus Witbooi was the secretary since time memorial and important historical documents of both the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Witbooi Traditional Authority is being safeguarded in the archives of St. Mark's A M E Church, Gibeon.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).

Our Activities

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

St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church is associated with: African Methodist Episcopal (AME)
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