Brief HistoryThe 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 Markus Witbooi was the secretary since time memorial and important historical documents of both the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Witbooi Traditional Authority is being safeguarded in the archives of St. Mark’s A M E Church, Gibeon.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).
Brief HistoryThe 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 Markus Witbooi was the secretary since time memorial and important historical documents of both the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Witbooi Traditional Authority is being safeguarded in the archives of St. Mark’s A M E Church, Gibeon.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 ActivitiesMusic 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
Our Services & Events
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
Our Staff
Gregory G M Ingram, Bishop
Rt. Rev. ✤ hansews@hotmail.com
Hendrik /Gariseb, Presiding Elder
Rev. ✤ hansews@hotmail.com
Willem Moses Hanse, Pastor
Rev. ✤ topnaarpe@hotmail.com
Hans Petersen, Assistant Pastor
Rev. ✤ topnaarpe@hotmail.com
Salomon J. Witbooi, Treasurer
Bro. ✤ topnaarpe@hotmail.com
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