Twenty men at the Newton (Iowa) Correctional facility were baptized in May following an annual spiritual retreat weekend called Brothers in Blue.

In August, 108 Cadets, 36 counselors, and 16 support staff spent a week immersed in nature at Algonquin Park’s Whitefish Lake for the All-Ontario Cadet Camporee.

John Muyskens, a 2015 graduate of Calvin College, was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in the National Reporting Category.

Camp SHOUT (See Him Open Up Truth), a four-week day camp at Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in St. Catharines, Ont., is noisy, fast, and crowded

Lots of churches hold carnivals to invite the community for fun and fellowship. But Mountainview Christian Reformed Church in Grimsby, Ont., encourages its members to bring mini-carnivals to their own front lawns

Angela Reitsma Bick won the 2016 Word Guild award for profile/human interest category for her op-ed article, “Every Moment Holy,” published in December 2015.

As athletes descend on Brazil for the Rio Paralympic Summer Games in September, Drew Bremer, 21, will be among them.

Two Christian high schools from western Michigan won state championships in their respective sports recently.

Have you commented on, liked, or shared something your church is doing lately?

In response to the recent shootings of black men and of police officers, Madison Square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. held a service of lament on Tuesday, July 12.

Pastor, professor, missionary, pilot, gardener, skilled builder, and talented woodworker, James Calvin De Young was a man who enjoyed new challenges and liked to keep busy.

River Rock Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Rockford, Mich., is showing outdoor movies as a way to help the community become familiar with its location.

Teens and adults of Alger Park Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. continued their work in the Dominican Republic long after they returned from a mission trip.

Thanks to a $150,000 grant, a food pantry in Prospect Park, N.J., is becoming a food co-op, a retail grocery store owned by its volunteers.

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It was an evening of celebrating excellence in Christian education and recognizing teachers who go beyond teaching to nurture character and a community of care for others.

Calvin Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich. has found a way to bridge its school-year children’s ministry programs,

The board of governors of Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont., announced last week that president Hubert Krygsman is stepping down.

Ron Vanden Brink of Kelowna, B.C., has been appointed the new director of Diaconal Ministries Canada (DMC), effective August 1

Approach Bethany Christian Reformed Church in Bellflower, Calif., on weekday mornings this summer and you will see a swarm of kids shooting hoops, or designing experiments, or creating masterpieces.

Twenty participants with special needs, 20 mentors, and countless other volunteers spent last week SERVE-ing in Ottawa, Ont., Canada’s capital city.

Pieter VanderLeek, a member of Willoughby Christian Reformed Church in Langley, B.C., loves to walk.

Volunteering at a homeless shelter. Serving food in a soup kitchen. Tutoring kids during an afterschool program at an Arab-American school.