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Dutch Reformed Church

British  

noun

  1. any of the three Calvinist Churches to which most Afrikaans-speaking South Africans belong

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As head of the Dutch Reformed Church’s program to reach Jews, Willem kept in touch with these things.

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And in the Dutch Reformed Church, a minister’s first sermon in his first church was the most solemn, joyous, emotional occasion that an unemotional people could conceive.

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Father, Betsie, and I were on our way to the Dutch Reformed church in Velsen, a small town not far from Haarlem, where Peter had won the post of organist in competition against forty older and more experienced musicians.

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Since 1967 it has been governed by the Dutch Reformed Church.

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Only a few of the country's religious groups have adopted policies that are more favourable towards the community, among them the Dutch Reformed Church and the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.

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