Michaelis Congregation
Vryheid

Vryheid is an active and very musical congregation with choir and brass band. Various other activities are offered especially for seniors. The congregation also support mission and diaconic projects.
Michaelis Congregation Vryheid is a predominantly German speaking congregation with 145 members.
The Michaelis Private School is an English medium private Christian primary school with up to 168 learners and 100 children in the Michaelis Kindergarten.

The Michaelis Congregation Vryheid was founded on 1 October 1921.
The mother congregation Glückstadt was founded in 1908 when German farmers had settled in the area between Glückstadt and Swart Mfolozi and is not used anymore by the Lutherans. The pastor of the Glückstadt Congregation conducted 12 Services per year in the farming area of Scheepersnek and in Vryheid. As a result, the independent congregation Scheepersnek-Vryheid was established on 1 October 1921. Pastor Reinhard Drews was the first pastor of the newly established congregation residing in the manse in Scheepersnek.
In Vryheid, the congregation worshipped in a chapel in Hlobane Street. After a plot was purchased in Mark Street under very favourable conditions the old manse was built in 1949 and Pastor Drews resided there until his retirement after 40 years of ministry.
A new church was built on that plot and consecrated on 8 March 1964 and the two churches, in Scheepersnek and Vryheid, were not used anymore.

 

Pastor Elke Carrihill
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 084 482 5296

Church Services:

German – 09:30
Every Sunday (except the 3rd and 5th Sunday)
English– 09:30 most 5th Sunday
Afrikaans- most 3rd Sunday

Trilingual Services on Christmas Eve and Easter

Contact details:
082 482 5296
[email protected]

Physical Address:
109 Mark Street
3100 Vryheid