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The Banner's experienced news team will bring you the facts of synod decisions, along with the history and context around the important issues of the day.

Welcome to The Banner’s first-ever guide to the Agenda for Synod and supplementary reports.

Sarah Heth, most recently assistant features editor for The Holland Sentinel, has joined The Banner team.

For the second year in a row, the men and boys participating in the Cadet program at Wheaton (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church welcomed visitors to bring their bikes for a free spring tune-up.

Faith Christian Reformed Church, a small congregation in Nashville, Tenn., has found blessing in sharing its building with other churches and programs. 

The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based child welfare organization recently agreed to allow placing foster children with same-sex couples in its home state after a lengthy legal challenge.

Prompted by concern for their neighbors, the community care ministry team at Ebenezer Christian Reformed Church in Berwyn, Ill., hosted “March into Wellness” this spring, grouping different healthcare providers in one place for easy access.

Bud Ipema leaves a 60-year legacy of urban ministry and the promotion of racial reconciliation and social justice. He died on April 14.

A pastor for 58 years, Barry Blankers was gentle, humble, godly, wise, and a genuine role model who tried to live what he preached.

In a time of rising suicide, religious communities move beyond condemnation to care. Writer Elizabeth Evans shares the Plank family’s story.

Disability Concerns, a joint ministry of the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America, presented a day-long training event focused on youth and mental health.

Five Christian organizations in Canada partnered to produce Renegotiating Faith, a research study on the growing delay in young adult identity formation and what this means for churches.

Classis Minnkota, a regional group of Christian Reformed churches, gathered for a worship service to commemorate the Canons of Dort, a confessional document with 400 years of history.

Chris Schoon, currently serving as senior pastor at First Christian Reformed Church in Hamilton, Ont., has been named the new team leader for Faith Formations Ministries, effective June 1.

Oakdale Park CRC in Grand Rapids, Mich., is one of many Christian Reformed congregations supporting 70x7 Life Recovery, serving people returning from incarceration.

Rachel Held Evans, best-selling Christian writer and speaker, died May 4 after a brief illness. She was 37.

Jean Vanier, a Catholic philosopher, writer, and founder of L’Arche, a worldwide network of homes where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together, died May 7 at age 90.

A task force formed to address the issue of preventing and responding to abuse of power in the church is sending recommendations to the Christian Reformed Church’s annual leadership gathering by way of its report.

The Council of Delegates met in Grimsby, Ont., on May 2-3, 2019. It acts on behalf of synod, the annual leadership meeting of the Christian Reformed Church, between the meetings of synod. It took action on several issues.

Synod 2019 (the annual leadership meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) convenes on June 14; more than 200 delegates and advisers will gather at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. Here’s what to expect.

Neil Molenaar, developer and first director of what is now World Renew Disaster Response Services, died April 20, 2019. He was 86.

“You are loved” was the message that echoed again and again throughout Markus Lise’s life of ministry.  As a pastor, he is remembered for challenging and inspiring congregations to think “outside the box.”

The Parliament of Canada has established May 5 as Dutch Heritage Day, an annual recognition of the history between Canada and the Netherlands.