Jahanika (Johanika), Erastus
* ?, ? † .


Was baptized by Bernsmann in the year 1894 or 1895 in Omburo. Bernsmann wanted to send him to Otjimbingwe to the Augustineum, but his parents did not agree. Later Bernsmann lost the contact with him. When Bernsmann came to Karibib in 1905 he encoutered Erastus Jahanika in the POW camp. He was released by the authorities under the "Mission agreement" which allowed Teachers and Evangelists to leave the camps if requested by the RMS. Jahanika was supposed to teach at the mission School in Karibib, but his health did not allow it, as he was permanently sick of scurvy. When the home for orphans was opened in Otjimbingwe in 1906, Erastus Jahanika was send there. He arrived there weak and with swollen limbs. Vegetables, grown in the own garden made him to recover soon, and he helped in the Garden and in the School.1 By 1907 he became an important teacher and helper in the home for orphans (Waisenhaus).2
1909 "schied im August aus, weil seine Mitarbeit nicht mehr nötig war."3
Jahanika, Erastus, was married when he joined the "Gehilfenseminar" in Gaub in 1911, came from Swakopmund.4 This was the first course in Gaub.5
Was placed to Otjoru, a branch station of Outjo, by Trey.6
Married:
His wife was [no name given] baptized on the 22.09.1907 in Otjimbingwe.7
Children: 

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History with the RMS:


1 BRMG 1907:85.
2 BRMG 1907:139.
3 JBRMG 1990:29.
4 AELCRN V 6.1:4.
5 AELCRN VIII 3.1-3.
6 JBRMG 1912:39.
7 JBRMG 1907:31.
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