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Your July Banner came late so we could catch you up on the latest news from Synod 2006, the Christian Reformed Church’s annual lead

National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) has awarded Fred and Mary Visser its Award for Excellence.

To Georgetown Christian Reformed Church, Hudsonville, Mich., Rev. Mark Nelesen of Third CRC, Zeeland, Mich.

A new website specifically for Asian Christian Reformed churches is good news for Indonesian, Vietnamese, Laotian, Filipino, Hmong, and C

1926 – 2006

The Christian Reformed Church has an affiliation process, adopted in the mid-1980s, for congregations who wish to join the denomination.

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The Illuminator

by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

At that point in American cultural history when kids turned from swing sets to computers and from camping to video-game marathons, the C

Last summer I sat with some other North American visitors on rickety chairs under a mango tree in Uganda, East Africa.

Synod 2006 approved Today’s New International Version of the Bible (TNIV) for use in the Christian Reformed Church, but not withou

More people followed the deliberations of synod via the Internet this year than ever before.

After several hours of vigorous debate, Synod 2006 called on Christian Reformed churches and agencies to be agents of peace and shalom.

Synod approved the CRC Board of Trustees’ plan to support a healthy-churches initiative. The plan has two distinct parts.

Synod 2006 voted unanimously to appoint Rev. Gerard L.

Synod 2006 ratified the appointments of three denominational leaders who were appointed by the CRC’s Board of Trustees in the past

Synod 2006 approved a revised edition of the Ecumenical Charter that guides the CRC’s relationship with other denominations.

The Christian Reformed Church will stay in restricted ecclesiastical relationship with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN).

Pastors from the Reformed Church in America may now be called to serve in the Christian Reformed Church.

Peer-learning group coordinators in the Christian Reformed Church share their accomplishments at an annual meeting each November, but at

Synod 2006 made some wonderful decisions, some surprising decisions, and some confusing decisions on behalf of the Christian Reformed Chu

This was the first year the Synodical Ministerial Candidacy Committee (SMCC) presented candidates for the ministry to synod.

Emerging Church

Thank you, Mark Brouwer, for your thoughtful and enlightening article “The Emerging Church” (June

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