The CRC’s Faith Formation Committee gave synod delegates a copy of its first draft document, titled “Affirming Baptism and Fo

In the past, when synod appointed a committee to study an issue, the committee would toil away in isolation for two to three years, then

In a “State of the Church” address to Synod 2009, CRC Executive Director Rev.

Delegates to Synod 2009 had a chance to hear about the CRC’s newest plan to better connect member churches with the denomination an

This year’s Synodical Service of Prayer and Praise was hosted by Elmhurst (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church, the convening church of

On the last day of Synod 2009, a request from a delegate resulted in the denomination’s executive director, Rev.

With the average age of synod delegates hovering around 55, synod has never been considered a young person’s activity.

To define a Reformed way to engage so-called “third wave Pentecostalism,” Synod 2009 recommended two reports to Christian Ref

Responding to a “strong message of concern and pain,” Synod 2009 instructed the denomination’s Board of Trustees to com

Unity, Reconciliation, and Justice is a study guide with nine study group lessons about the Belhar Confession, originally produced

The Christian Reformed Church is, for the first time in its history, proposing the adoption of a new confession: the Belhar Confession.

Synod 2009 was a real stretch.

Just months after the CRC’s director of Race Relations was made a voting member of the Ministry Council, the voice of ethnic mino

March 10, 1946 – January 22, 2009

When Synod 2009 convenes near Chicago in mid-June, the usual number of delegates will be in attendance, but there will be some changes am

A 38-member work crew from Second Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., spent spring break in Waveland, Miss., cleaning up da

“What will you tell your grandchildren you did during the genocide in Darfur?”

In March, 100 teens from Lynden, Wash., hosted 50 inner-city Seattle teens for a weekend that included worship, paintball games, four-whe

Only the buzzing of overhead lights disturbed the hush when 834 women listened to Debbie Mayer tell of losing three daughters in a traffi

Eight members of River Terrace Christian Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich., recently traveled to Nigeria to learn about the Nigerian

When the saints came marching in to Raybrook Chapel at Holland Home in Grand Rapids, Mich., they were dressed for the occasion.

Rev.

The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church met at the end of April with a full agenda.