Jordaan, Gabriel Jacobus2014-03-052014-03-052013-09Jordaan, GJ 2013, 'The contribution of the pioneer missionary, Reverend AJ Rousseau - 1925 to 1940 to the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) mission in Sekhukhuneland', NGTT: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif/Dutch Reformed Theological Journal, vol. 54, no. 3&4, pp. 183-195.0028-2006 (print)2226-2385 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37080This article is based on a PhD thesis, History of the DRC mission in Sekhukhuneland and Church development 1875 – 1994, that the writer completed at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, with dr AS van Niekerk of the Department Science of Religion and Missiology as study leader. (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24506 )In this article the story of the pioneer missionary in Sekhukhuneland, Rev Abraham Rousseau is told. He was a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Sekhukhuneland from 1926 to 1940. This story deals with the preparation stage of Rousseau’s work, the building of a parsonage, school, hostel, a small hospital and accommodation for the staff, and the expansion of the mission work as far as possible into Sekhukhuneland. Soon 21 outposts, including schools were established. Attention is given to the black evangelists who were the mission’s fore-front workers. Attention is given to the relation between the white and black mission workers in the historical phase in which Rousseau played a role, and how these relations developed in later phases.enSU LISSouth African mission historyPartnership in missionIntegral approach in missionPioneers in missionMedical missionMission and educationSuid-Afrikaanse sendinggeskiedenisSending in vennootskapIntegrale benadering in sendingSendingpioniersMediese sendingSending en onderwysReformed Church -- South AfricaMission of the churchChurch history -- 20th centuryArticle