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The Christian Reformed Church’s Youth Ambassador of Reconciliation program, geared for young adults and focusing on an Indigenous perspective, took place this year as an online event.

While closed church buildings affected the typical distribution of print material in this COVID-19 time, one northern B.C. pastor had a solution. As an avid cyclist, Joel Ringma decided to deliver the magazines himself.

Denominational ministries of the ���ҵ��� have received help from U.S. and Canadian government grant and loan programs amid COVID-19 economic struggles.

Instead of singing to fans on European stages this spring and summer, singer Ann Vriend in Edmonton, Alta., is building community from her front-porch stage every Sunday afternoon.

This summer, Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Mich., announced receiving an $11 million gift for its Institute for Global Faculty Development. Professor Matthew Lundberg has been named the institute’s director.

A Christian Reformed pastor for 36 years, Henry Dykema, known as a good storyteller, died July 12.

Surveying pastors in the United States in April and July, LifeWay Research found an increase in the reporting of disagreement and conflict as high pressure points in ministry.

Calvin University is among many schools in the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities making statements and changes this summer.

Members of the Neland Stitchers group at Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church, in Grand Rapids, Mich., are sewing and sharing face masks for use during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Christian magazine Sojourners has replaced founder and president Jim Wallis as editor in chief and announced a new policy of editorial independence from the organization's advocacy work.

Neal Rylaarsdam, an approachable pastor who loved blessing others, died June 4.

Amid concerns of “how the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic crisis have continued to destroy lives and livelihood around the world,” four Christian organizations propose economic changes for consideration at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in November 2020.

As community health responses to COVID-19 impose restrictions on gatherings and border crossings, three examples from Christian Reformed Churches in British Columbia show how pastors have been a ministry of presence to families needing a different kind of memorial.

Some congregations in the Christian Reformed Church are finding creative ways to maintain contact with World Renew missionaries in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and its resultant restrictions on travel.

A life-sized statue of the evangelist Billy Graham will be installed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall collection sometime next year, replacing the statue of a former North Carolina governor described as a white supremacist.

Churches blessed with families welcoming a new baby at this time have had to consider how to enfold the new child into community.

No camp? No problem. Two Christian Reformed churches and a Christian university share how they made meaningful connections for kids this summer.

Forty-two years since the Indigenous Family Centre opened in Winnipeg, Man., an Indigenous person, Shannon Perez, will serve as director of the organization.

Michelle DePooter-Francis, a commissioned pastor with the CRC and chaplain to the Ministry to Seafarers in the Port of Montreal, describes changes in the ministry and difficulties faced by those who work at sea.

A 2017 court challenge by The Canadian Council of Churches and others has been upheld by the Federal Court of Canada: Sending refugee claimants back to the United States under the Safe Third Country Agreement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Canadian Ministries Team of the ���ҵ��� has granted denominational staff in Canada four extra days off this year, added to holiday weekends between August and December. Similar time off is proposed for U.S. staff.

As people deal with the impacts of the pandemic and civil unrest, many Christian leaders, organizations and churches are providing resources to care for members’ mental, as well as spiritual and physical, health.

The ���ҵ��� Canada Corporation met for a half-day in July to further discuss the governance restructure.