Although they are facing challenges with only fifty people allowed at church gatherings, congregations at the coast say they are trying to adhere to the rules.

The pastor of the Potters House church at Swakopmund, Harold Booysen, said fifty people are better than no meeting at all.

Wearing masks, sitting far from each other and all that was weird and church without kids is not the same."

We kept fifty people and will try to do services in intervals," said Elda Kharases, the secretary of Shalom Pentecoastal Church.

Others will have church through the radio.