Twelve thousand worshipers, including synod delegates, gathered Sunday afternoon in the Van Andel arena, downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.&mda
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Rev. Setri Nyomi, General Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), brought greetings to this year’s synod.
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Synod 2007 urged the churches to become familiar with the Belhar Confession, a declaration focusing on racial and ethnic unity and reconc
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Rarely are an individual’s contributions to the church noted by a formal act of synod.
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Synod 2007 opened its last day with a service of repentance for personal and institutional racism, focusing particularly on a 1920 synodi
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Ministry Share Breakdown for 2008*
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Synod 2007 adopted a ministry share for calendar year 2008 of $298.58 per active, professing CRC member 18 years and older.
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Synod 2007 called for a study of all the covenantal, communal commitments we have as a denomination that will consider how best to financ
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Synod 2007 decided that church planters may vote at classis (regional meetings).
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Synod warmly welcomed 30 new candidates for CRC ministry this year.
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Synod delegates gave a standing ovation to Rev.
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Synod 2007 made it more difficult to become a minister of the Word in the Christian Reformed Church without first obtaining the prescribe
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Synod approved the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible for use in Christian Reformed worship services.
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Synod 2007 said that Christian Reformed churches may not call candidates from the seminaries of the Reformed Church in America (RCA).
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Synod delegates declined a request from Classis Toronto to reinstate a Canadian director of Chaplaincy Ministries but shone a spotlight o
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Synod 2007 made it clear that every classis must have child-safety policies and a Safe Church Team to protect its most vulnerable members
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An overture (request) from Classis Zeeland reportedly caused some hurt feelings but led synod to create a new study committee on immigrat
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The CRC’s Korean-speaking classis, Pacific Hanmi, will continue to exist past its original mandate, Synod 2007 decided.
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Synod 2007’s ethnic advisers were, from left (back row): Irene Bakker, Jonathon Kim, Helen Brent; (front row) Elaine Yu, Yatta Foryoh,
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Richard van Houten, general secretary of the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC), brought greetings and an update to Synod 2007.
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Two morticians at a new undertaking: elder Ron Bielema, Classis Muskegon (left), and elder Glenn Smits, Classis Illiana, were among the d
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Synod 2007 approved plans for a new hymnal, scheduled to hit the pews in 2013.
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“Can we as Christians in the East and West, the South and the North, engage as partners in God’s reconciling mission in spite
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Synod 2007 discouraged infant dedication and affirmed the Christian Reformed Church’s commitment to the sacrament of infant baptism