Move Church Namibia (formerly Living Word Namibia) was planted in Windhoek by Johannes and Marissa Coetzee on 2 February 2020, after they were commissioned and sent out by Beweeg Kerk Kaap (formerly Lewende Woord Kaap).
Beweeg Kerk Kaap, planted and led by apostolic leaders, JC and Jénene van Rooyen, grew into its own network after 12 years of serving the vision of the Lewende Woord network (founded by Nevil and Rina Norden in Pretoria, South Africa in 1986). In 2024, Lewende Woord’s national apostolic and prophetic board blessed and released JC and the Cape Town birthed congregations to step into a new movement and identity, with the vision to activate and mobilise the church for service in the Kingdom of God.
The Move Church | Beweeg Kerk network currently consists of these congregations: Beweeg Kerk Kaap (main campus), Beweeg Kerk Overberg, Move Church Namibia, Beweeg Kerk Wellington and Beweeg Kerk satellite campus in Bethal.
The name “Move Church | Beweeg Kerk”, comes from several prophetic words over JC and Jénene across a span of 15 years, that God will entrust them to lead a network of congregations whose feet would constantly be moving to reach a broken world for Jesus Christ.
Move Church | Beweeg Kerk continues to function in a loving, brotherhood relationship and affiliation with our brothers and sisters at Lewende Woord.
Johannes and Marissa are the lead pastors of Move Church Namibia. They have each served in full time ministry for over 20 years cumulatively in local church environments, as well as media and missions; and social justice work (anti-human trafficking) across Africa, USA and Europe. Both earned Bachelor’s degrees in Theology from the South African Theological Seminary. They love to serve God’s Kingdom together as a married couple, building up the local church and equipping people to move in their calling.
Jacques has been part of the team with Pastors Johannes and Marissa from the start of the Windhoek church plant in 2020 and has been faithfully serving in missions around the world for over 12 years. He is a passionate evangelist and worshiper of Jesus; and has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from the South African Theological Seminary.
Jacques has been part of the team with Pastors Johannes and Marissa from the start of the Windhoek church plant in 2020 and has been faithfully serving in missions around the world for over 12 years. He is a passionate evangelist and worshiper of Jesus; and has earned a Bachelor’s
Degree in Theology from the South African Theological Seminary.
Based in Cape Town, JC and Jénene van Rooyen are the apostolic leaders and senior pastors of the Beweeg Kerk Network. JC oversees all Beweeg Kerk plants in the Network as well as a number of rural church plants in Malawi. JC planted Beweeg Kerk Kaap in 2013 (then known as Lewende Woord Kaap) and raised up leaders to plant congregations in Paarl, Caledon, Windhoek, Bethal and Wellington.
We believe that God revealed Himself to the world in two main ways: Though His Son Jesus Christ, who is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature (Heb. 1:1-3), and through the written and inspired Word of God, the Bible (2 Tim. 3:16). The Holy Spirit caused the prophets and scribes in the Old Testament and the apostles in the New Testament to write an accurate revelation of God to mankind. All 66 books and everything written in them have been breathed out by God through the working of the Holy Spirit and preserved for the church. Thus, nothing may be added to it or removed from it and everything in it is of equal value and importance to the church (2 Pet. 3:15-16, Rev. 22:18-19). The Bible is necessary for the church and sufficient for training in life, faith and beliefs, it has authority because God brought it into existence and God preserved the message of the Bible perfectly, without error, to this very day. All books and writings that are not included in the 66 books of the Bible should be treated as human writings that are not inspired by the Holy Spirit (Luk. 24:44).
We believe that God is:
God is actively involved in the world and makes everything work together for His good and unchanging will (Rom. 8:28). He is, however, separate from the world. He manifests His glory to the entire world through everything that He created (Rom 1:20, Ps. 19:1-6). He forgives the sins of the world, rewards those who seek him and executes vengeance and justice against the ungodly (Ex. 34:6-7, Rom. 12:19, Heb. 11:6). The Lord our God is the only true God and is to be worshiped (Ps. 29:2, 95:6, 99:5, Matt. 4:10, Rev. 4:8-11, 7:11), served (Matt. 4:10, 1 Cor. 6:19-20, Heb. 9:14) and proclaimed to all creation (Matt 28:19, Mar. 16:15-18, Acts 1:8).
In the Bible God reveals Himself as a trinity yet He is one Being. The Bible teaches us three main ideas about the trinity: (1) God is three persons: The Father, the Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, (John 1:1-3, 14:16, 16:7, 17:1-5, Rom. 8:27,1 Cor. 12:4-6), (2) all three persons are fully God (Gen. 1:1-3, Joh. 1:1-3, Heb. 1:1-3, Matt. 28:19, Acts 5:3-4), (3) there is only one God (Deut. 6:4, Isa. 45:21-22). Thus, we are opposed to the belief that there is only one person in the Godhead that takes on various forms (Modal Monarchianism). We are also opposed to the idea that only the Father is God and that the Son and the Spirit is not God (Dynamic Monarchianism). We are also opposed to the idea that there are three gods (Tritheism). The Bible plainly teaches that each person in the Godhead is not the other, all three are God and that God is one.
We believe that God created man, male and female, equal in His own image different from animals (Gen. 1:26). God gave human beings spirits and gave them the ability to reason, love and worship God. God created Man good and righteous and walked with Man in perfect fellowship and unity in the Garden of Eden that He created for them to live in (Gen. 2, Matt. 10:28, Col. 3:10). He commanded them to have dominion over all creation, to work the ground and to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 1:28). He also commanded them not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that He placed in the midst of the Garden, yet He gave them the freedom, in their sinless state, to disobey the commandment of God in order that they may also truly be free in their obedience to Him (Gen. 2:17).
Adam and Eve rebelled against God and ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen. 3). Consequently, Man was driven out from the Garden of Eden and became corrupt and defiled in all the faculties of the soul and the body. They were separated from the presence of God, death, guilt and shame entered into the world and man stood condemned into eternal judgement (Rom. 3:9-20). This corruption and sin was transmitted to, and imputed upon all the generations to follow resulting in Man’s inability to please God in act, attitude and nature leaving Man enslaved to the law of sin and death and accountable to God, each for their own sin as well as the original sin of the first Adam (Rom. 3:19-20, 5:12-14). Therefore, Man is in total dependence upon God to atone for his sins (cf. The Gospel and Salvation).
The world was originally created good (Gen. 1:31) but was also affected by sin (Gen. 3:17-18). God created the entire universe, all things visible and invisible, through His Word out of nothing, separate from Himself to manifest His glory, eternal power, wisdom and goodness (Gen. 1, Ps. 19:1-6, Jo. 1:1-3). God is diligently involved in the world and is free and able to intervene, re-order creation and perform miracles as He wills (Ex. 7:14-14-31, Matt. 8:14-17, Heb. 2:4). The Lord upholds the universe by the word of His power (Heb. 1:3). For this reason, we believe it is important that believers handle creation with reverence to God.
We believe that angels and demons, immaterial spirits, were created at the same time the material universe was created. Somewhere between the creation and the fall some of these spirits rebelled against God. We believe that angels execute His Will. They are both messengers & ministering spirits sent to minister in support to those who have received salvation. Angels also warn, protect, defend, war & comfort in the power of God’s Spirit (Gen. 3:24, Isa. 6:3, Ez. 1:27, 1 Sam. 4:4, Ps. 103:20-21,1 Thess. 4:16, Jud. 9, Heb. 1:14). Conversely we believe demons are fallen beings, who formerly possessed the Glory of God but because of their disobedience / rebellion against God has lost their heavenly glory and entered into a fallen state. Their mission and activities are opposed to the will of God and in opposition to people and especially the born-again saints of God (Eph. 6:12, 2 Pet. 2:4, Rev. 12:3-4).
We believe that God so loved the world that while we were dead in sin God chose to send His Son into the world as a sacrifice to atone for the sins of the world (Jo. 3:16, Rom. 3:21-25, Eph. 2:1-3, Heb. 10:12). Jesus was born, sinless, of the virgin Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that the Scriptures may be fulfilled and was therefore also the only acceptable substitutionary sacrifice that could atone for the sins of the world (Matt. 1:18-25, Heb. 4:15, 10:14, 18, 1 Pet. 2:22). Jesus Christ is God incarnate, the exact imprint of God’s nature and existed before the world was created and was crucified before the foundation of the world (Jo. 1:1-3, 14, 17:5, Heb. 1:1-3, 1 Pet. 1:20). He is fully God and also fully man that was like us in every way (Heb. 4:15-16). He physically died on the cross for the sins of the world (1 John 4:1-6, Jo. 3:16, Matt. 27:32-44). He then physically rose again by the power of God and appeared to many disciples (Matt. 28, Luk. 24). He ascended to heaven after His resurrection to sit at the right hand of God the Father to intercede for us (Luk. 24:50-53, Rom. 8:34, Heb. 10:12, 12:2). He will come again on the clouds to judge the living and the dead. All the world will see Him and He will fully and finally establish His reign on earth (Matt. 24:29-30, Rev. 1:7). Jesus is the Founder of our Faith and God, who came to save the world (Heb. 12:1-2). All authority on heaven and earth is given to him and at His name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord (Phil. 2:9-10).
The Bible teaches that the gospel is an event that took place at a specific point in history related to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the redemption of sinners (1 Cor. 15, 2 Cor. 5:21). We believe that while we were still dead in trespasses and sins God sent His son to become the propitiation for our sins. God knew that we were unable to be saved by ourselves and chose to give us righteousness and eternal life as a free gift. This free gift is to be received by faith in Jesus Christ (Rom. 4:23-25, Eph. 2:5, 8). Thus, salvation is not gained by any form of human merit but is entirely built upon the work of Christ. No person is able to be justified either by the law written on their heart or by the law given by Moses (Rom 2:24, 3:20-21). We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, because of the sufficient work of Christ alone (Rom. 4:23-25, Eph. 2:5, 8). This was God’s plan from the very beginning.
We believe that upon receiving the finished work of Jesus Christ a person is born again. That is, confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Saviour (Rom 10:9). This rebirth is the work of the Holy Spirit where a person receives new life from God and transformation in their spirit (Jo. 3:3). After being born again we believe that the next step in their walk of faith is water baptism.
A person needs to be born again in order to be water baptised. This water baptism is an expression and act of faith toward God in accepting (by choice) the cleansing work of Christ who gives a person a clean conscience. In baptism a person unites with and identifies with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Just like Christ died to sin and came alive again to live a life to God so the believer dies to sin and his old self is buried with Christ and comes alive to live a life to God (Rom. 6:1-11). This baptism is done in the presence of other believers in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit by full immersion only once (Matt. 3:16, 28:19, Mk. 1:9-10). It is only necessary for a believer to be baptised once after conversion.
Babies do not share in baptism because they are not able to repent and confess faith in Christ for the forgiveness of sin. Baby dedication is reserved for this purpose: a baby is presented to the Lord in the midst of the congregation (Lk 2:22) and the parents commit themselves to raise the child in the fear of the Lord.
We believe that communion is an act of obedience whereby believers through partaking of the bread, and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Lord for the restoration and redemption of the believer. The bread represents the body of Christ that was broken and the fruit of the vine represents the blood of Christ that was shed for the propitiation of our sins (1 Cor. 11:26).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is God. He is also a person, not a force, and He proceeds from the Father and the Son (Jo. 14:16, 26, 15:26, Ac. 5:3-4). He is the promised gift from God for His people (Ac. 2:38-39) and is now at the centre of the Christian life:
We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a separate event / act apart from the water baptism & new birth. New birth precedes the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but water baptism can either precede or post cede this baptism. Just as we are immersed in water, we are filled and immersed into the Holy Spirit. Evidence or fruit to someone receiving Holy Spirit Baptism might include the speaking of tongues and a changed and empowered life for the service of God. Jesus is the Baptiser who baptises those who desire, ask & believe to receive this endowment gift from the Father that is available to all born again believers (Matt. 3:11, Luk. 3:16, Mk. 1:8, Jo. 1:33, 7:38-39, Ac. 1:8).
The Holy Spirit is both the owner and distributor who gives and distributes the gifts as He wills. These Holy Spirit gifts are there for the common good and edification of the body of Christ. They work both in and through the life of born-again believers under inspiration and leading of the Holy Spirit. The gifts are not limited in number or distribution but are freely given as the Spirit wills. Gifts are to be desired & pursued along with Love (1 Cor. 12:4-11,14:1-5, Heb. 2:4).
