Further emergence

Further emergence of the Reformed Church abroad. Migratory Movement of the Members: The Angola Trek, 1874-1875. Dorsland Trek. Migrant farmers went to St Januario, Humpata. The reason for the move was unhappiness with management of the Z.A Republic, a political-civil matter. The first group to move was the Van der Merwe trek that arrived in Angola after heavy losses five years later in 1880. A large number of Reformed members were in the migrant groups and they established the Reformed Church Humpata (in what was then Portuguese West Africa). It is not known whether there was a minister here before the advent of rev. Pieter Biewenga in 1903. After more and more Afrikaners settled north of Humpata over time, a separate ward for ministry was set up in Que, Cubal, Hanha and Catumbela. Rev. Biewenga, who had done missionary work as minister of the congregation of Humpata, was confirmed as Que's first and only minister on May 28,  1906. He served the congregation until 1926, two years before it, like Humpata, dissolved in 1928.