Actions of regional groups of churches in the past several months include 21 disaffiliated and two affiliated congregations, 11 approved examinations of ministers of the Word, and 51 departing ministers (retired and active).
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Classis meetings throughout the spring have included the disaffiliation of 16 congregations, the release of 56 ministers of the Word, and the approval of eight commissioned pastors, four ministers, and two new organized congregations.
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Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classes, regional groups of churches. Actions of classes in the past several months include two completed disaffiliations, several pastors released from ministry, and overtures going to Synod 2025.
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Actions of Christian Reformed classes in the past several months include examining and approving candidates for ministry, releasing 10 pastors from their calls of ministry, and recognizing the disaffiliation of a church plant.
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Actions of classes in the Christian Reformed Church since March include approving retirements, welcoming pastors from other denominations, and processing several pastor-church separations.
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Actions of Christian Reformed regional assemblies in the past several months include welcoming new pastors, recognizing retiring pastors, acknowledging the closing of several churches, and communicating to synod.
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Christian Reformed churches meet together in regional assemblies two or three times per year. Actions of classes in the past several months include approving new ministers, recognizing retirements, establishing discernment committees and processing disaffiliation requests.
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In the last several months, 16 candidates were examined and approved for ministry, two churches moved from emerging to organized status, and five congregations disbanded or disaffiliated from the Christian Reformed Church.
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Requests, communications, and actions of the regional assemblies of Christian Reformed churches include calls to pursue ‘scriptural and confessional unity,’ to clarify the use of gravamina, and to revisit the confessional status of a Synod 2022 decision.
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Actions of Christian Reformed classes (regional group of churches) in the past several months include welcoming candidates as ministers, disbanding congregations, and adopting procedures for handling confessional difficulty gravamina.
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