Keister, Jakob
*01.03.1927, ? † 07.11.1991, ?.


Baptized: 24.04.1927. Confirmed: 02.12.1945.
Mother language: Nama. Other languages: Afrikaans, English.
Worked as a teacher in Gibeon and Dabib before joining the Church.
Completed Augustineum in 1948-1950.
Pastor course: 1965, 1967-1968.
Ordained on the 15.12.1967 in Gibeon.1

Oral Information by Sarah Jod in Fransfontein on 03.08.2004


Pastor Jakob Keister, second from left in the front row. (Foto from Sarah Jod) - Also published somewhere, eg. Gockel 2003:83 (aus den Beständen von Ursula Pönnighaus)
Keister was the ELK pastor in Otjimbingwe in the 1960'tees. Kumundu (principel of the School) and the local ELK pastor Jakob Keister had much to do with each other, as there houses were next to each other and and as the congregation pastor, Keister was in charge of the School. It was through the contact with pastor Jakob Keister that the possibility to become an Evangelist was opened for Hanadoab. Keister told him, that he wanted Hanadoab to be trained as an Evangelist.2
Was appointed as the ELK pastor in 1978 to the congregation Maltahöhe to replace the Evangelist Joël Hanadoab, who had worked there with the authorities of a pastor.
Jakob Keister was the brother of the wife of Kameeta.

Kirchenleitungsmitglied 1978 unter Präses Lukas de Vries.3

Married:
Married Anna Maria (no surname recorded) on 08.07.1952, born 24.04.1934 in Gibeon.4
Children: 
Emil Ernst			10.01.1954
Anna Sabina			14.09.1955
Theodor Titus			18.09.1957
Efraim Gideon		22.10.1959
Jakob				24.03.1962
Moses Johannes		20.09.1963
Theresia Elzie			29.09.1965

Education:

Other family members connected to RMS:

Mission Stations:
Congregations:
Lutheran Theological Seminary Umpumulo	1968
Otjimbingwe		01.01.1969 - 1977
Maltahöhe		no date recorded

History with the RMS:

1 AELCRN Cardsystem of the co-workers, n.N.
2 Hanadoab.
3 Gockel 2003:83.
4 AELCRN Cardsystem of the co-workers, n.N.
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