Mamre

District: Cape Town North

Members: 2229
Outstations: Modderriver 1960, 1st outstation – Non existent due to decline in membership and Darling with 200 members

1700 Henning Hüsing a meat contractor was given grazing rights. 1701 Governor WA van der Stel send 1 sergeant and 10 soldiers to protect farmers against maranding Buschmen/Khoi-Khoi. During the hunting season WA van der Stel stayed in the farm house (parsonage 1). The parsonage deteriorated until the Moravian Missionaries came.

27 March 1808 the Moravian Missionaries, Khorhammer and Schmidt held first sermon under a poplar tree for 100 Khoi-khoi people ate Louwskloof. A monument-stone was erected and it is still be found there today. 03 April 1808 the first sermon was held in the parsonage. The Khoi people were taught to read, write, sing and other skills. 31 August 1816 the corner stone of the Church was laid. 06 February 1818 was inauguration of the Church.

1854 Groenekloof was renamed as the Biblical Mamre. Khorhammer died in Genadendal of pneumonia. Hans Klapmuts leader of the Khoi-khoi at Louwskloof was Baptist at the age of almost 100 years old. His house was used as an isolation hospital at the time when small pocks broke out amongst the slave in 1839