While remaining at home, residents of the Raybrook campus of Holland Home in Grand Rapids, Mich., joined together in a lawn-and-balcony, socially distanced worship service May 21.

The Iowa communities of Orange City and Sioux Center presented a joint service of remembrance this Memorial Day. Pastors Cory Van Sloten and Jordan Helming, both serving military chaplains, participated.

John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, and others comment on studies showing a possible link to a higher rate of coronavirus spread when singing in groups.

A new articulation of “Reformed Christian commitment” for trustees, administrators, and faculty of Calvin University, in Grand Rapids, Mich., looks for demonstration of Reformed beliefs, not necessarily membership in a Christian Reformed or CRC-affiliated church.

The Christian Reformed Church’s international development ministry is remembering John DeHaan, director of then-Christian Reformed World Relief Committee from 1978 to 1998. He died May 7.

Community initiatives from Christian Reformed churches across Canada are getting a $40,000 boost thanks to local ministry grants from World Renew and Diaconal Ministries Canada.

Christian evangelist and apologist Ravi Zacharias, founder of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, died May 19.

Insurance companies are primed to play an increasingly influential role for houses of worship as legislators ease social distancing restrictions and faith groups prepare to reopen their doors. Religion News Service spoke with two insurers.

Hope Unexpected, an eight-year-old organization serving young single mothers in Byron Center, Mich., opened a second location in January. Now they’ve adapted their approach to continue supporting families.

Wilma Van Schelven, a member of Maranatha Christian Reformed Church in Belleville, Ont., said her congregation’s city-wide food drive began with the Holy Spirit’s prompting.

A letter released May 11 includes 23 Christian leaders requesting that upcoming American Coronavirus economic stimulus legislation include measures to ensure “an inclusive and fair voting process” this fall.

At its May meeting the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates approved a “skeleton plan” for restructuring along American and Canadian lines, as first discussed in February.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates met via teleconference May 6 and 7, hearing reports and taking action on several items.

Speaking at the CRC's Council of Delegates May meeting, Classis Red Mesa delegate Stanley Jim shared difficult stories of the effect of COVID-19 among Navajo people in New Mexico and Arizona.

First Christian Reformed Church and Shalom CRC in Sioux Falls, S.D., are both part of Corona Help Sioux Falls, an online resource connecting help from the city's churches with people in need.

Here’s how Trinity Christian College; the Institute for Christian Studies; and Dordt, Calvin, The King’s, and Redeemer universities are marking commencement 2020.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Canada Corporation, the Canadian portion of the church’s governance body, has approved a proposal for a three-year process to build reconciliation with Indigenous communities.

Project Hope 3:16, an effort by Heritage Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., is encouraging people and pointing them to God during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Psalm 40 Project at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., features interviews with church members to hear how God is at work in their lives.

Josh Friend, pastor of Evergreen Community Church in Fort McMurray, Alta., talks to The Banner about his city’s situation.

Five Christian Reformed congregations near Chatham, Ont., have been creating online worship services together since the implementation of physical-distancing guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19.

While deferring most of the Agenda for Synod 2020 to the following year’s synod, a special June meeting of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates will process some time-sensitive matters.

Holland Christian Homes is a complex of seniors residences in Brampton, Ont. Its two long-term care manors have cases of COVID-19. The community, and its pastors, are showing care and resilience.