Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa |Uniting Reformed
Church in Southern Africa| |Associations||World Communion of
Reformed Churches| |Branched from||Dutch Reformed Church| The
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (Verenigende
Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika) was formed by the union of
the black and coloured Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk mission
churches. Main markers in the URCSA'S history In 1652 the Dutch
formed a halfway station at the Cape and introduced slavery by
whites. Various foreign mission organisations started working in
South Africa, which led to the formation of a number of
denominations amongst those people who otherwise would have been
excluded from the main churches. This process motivated the
Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) in South Africa to start its
own independent mission work. In 1857 the NGK synod decided to
have separate services for coloured members. A separate church,
the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) was formed in 1881. For
blacks, the Dutch Reformed Chur