The Dutch Reformed Church in Barkly East is the 72nd-oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in what was the Cape Church for more than a century and a half, before the establishment of the Synods of Western and Southern Cape, Beyers, C.J. 1981. Suid-Afrikaanse Biografiese Woordeboek Deel IV. Durban en Pretoria: Butterworth & Kie (SA) (Edms.) Bpk. namens die Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing. Eastern Cape and Northern Cape in the middle of the decade after 1970 and beyond.. URL besoek op 22 Oktober 2015. It was indeed the 76th congregation to be founded, but four congregations that were older than Barkly East have since been incorporated into neighboring congregations, 1952-vertaling van Die Bybel. URL besoek op 5 Oktober 2015. namely Middelburg (1852, no. 41), Komga (1859, no. 63), Greykerk (1862, no. 65) and Alice (1862, no. 66), all in the present NG Church in the Eastern Cape. In 2016, the congregation had 263 professing and 90 baptized members. Besides the main church on Barkly East, the village of Rhodes is also a ministry point of the congregation. Die gemeente adverteer in Oktober 2015 vir 'n brugleraar . URL besoek op 22 Oktober 2015.
Ministers Carl Hendrik Radloff, 1880–1886 G.S. Malan, 1886–1887 Helgard Müller, 1887–1894 F.W.R. Cast, 1894–1927 Gert Johannes Barnard, 7 December 1928 – 3 August 1946 (died in office) Jacobus Andries Theron, 1947–1957 Johan Gregorius Bezuidenhoud, 1958–1962 Cillié Malan, 1962–1966 Johannes Ströhmenger Berry, 1966–1970 Errol Viljoen, 1970–1975 Floris Nicolaas Marais, 1976–1980 Johannes Jurie van Deventer, 1980–1985 Willem Abraham van Zyl, 1985–2005 Johannes Gysbertus Marthinus (Jannie) Richter, 2006–2016
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