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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

Would you like to see something really neat? Then check out a honeybee’s knees.

Every believer is a minister.

You don’t have to be contemporary to grow

Almost before debate gets started, calls for the question arise from the floor.

I’m delighted to report that your donations to the ministry of The Banner helped us meet the goal set by the denomination

A husband and wife walk into a dentist’s office. The man tells the dentist, “Doctor, I’m in a big hurry.

The format and style of synod’s opening service of prayer and praise will continue to be under the jurisdiction of the host church

The italicized text below is what will be placed in brackets in the future with an explanation that the CRC no longer believes that text

If an adult had approached a teenage Darwin Glassford and predicted that he would be professor of church education at Calvin Theological

Synod 2006 affirmed the acknowledgement by First Christian Reformed Church, Toronto , of the CRC’s official guidelines regarding h

Like everything else, the cost of doing ministry together rises every year.

Some delegates to synod (the annual meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) feel the need to speak to every issue.

In a discussion that started with many references to the Holy Spirit at work, Synod 2006 adopted a compromise about women in ecclesiastic