This year’s Synodical Service of Prayer and Praise was hosted by Elmhurst (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church, the convening church of
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On the last day of Synod 2009, a request from a delegate resulted in the denomination’s executive director, Rev.
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With the average age of synod delegates hovering around 55, synod has never been considered a young person’s activity.
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To define a Reformed way to engage so-called “third wave Pentecostalism,” Synod 2009 recommended two reports to Christian Ref
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Responding to a “strong message of concern and pain,” Synod 2009 instructed the denomination’s Board of Trustees to com
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Unity, Reconciliation, and Justice is a study guide with nine study group lessons about the Belhar Confession, originally produced
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The Christian Reformed Church is, for the first time in its history, proposing the adoption of a new confession: the Belhar Confession.
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Synod 2009 was a real stretch.
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Just months after the CRC’s director of Race Relations was made a voting member of the Ministry Council, the voice of ethnic mino
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March 10, 1946 – January 22, 2009
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When Synod 2009 convenes near Chicago in mid-June, the usual number of delegates will be in attendance, but there will be some changes am
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A 38-member work crew from Second Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., spent spring break in Waveland, Miss., cleaning up da
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“What will you tell your grandchildren you did during the genocide in Darfur?”
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In March, 100 teens from Lynden, Wash., hosted 50 inner-city Seattle teens for a weekend that included worship, paintball games, four-whe
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Only the buzzing of overhead lights disturbed the hush when 834 women listened to Debbie Mayer tell of losing three daughters in a traffi
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Eight members of River Terrace Christian Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich., recently traveled to Nigeria to learn about the Nigerian
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When the saints came marching in to Raybrook Chapel at Holland Home in Grand Rapids, Mich., they were dressed for the occasion.
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Rev.
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The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church met at the end of April with a full agenda.
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Is decision-making in the Christian Reformed Church being concentrated in the office of the executive director in the cause of efficiency
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Sixteen members from Fredericton Christian Reformed Church in New Brunswick traveled from the Canadian Maritimes to Texas to do disaster
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Lester De Koster, who served as editor of The Banner for 10 years as well as being a long-time librarian at Calvin College and
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Depression, sometimes called “the common cold of mental illness” because of its prevalence, is as serious a problem as it is
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From Hope Christian Reformed Church in Stony Plain, Alberta, to Rev.