Both rival factions of the military government currently at war in Sudan have vowed to eliminate all Christians in the northeastern African country.

The “Prayer Vigil for Foreign Aid" event at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church on March 11 included faith-based charitable groups such as World Renew.

As of April 1 Moses Chung will be back with Resonate Global Mission as Asia Mission Team Leader.

World Renew’s 40-year track record of working with community partners on anti-poverty initiatives in Bangladesh contributed to its recent success in being awarded a substantial grant from Global Affairs Canada.

U.S. congregations of the Christian Reformed Church in North America involved in refugee sponsorship and resettlement pivot or wait while the admission program is suspended.

Since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in January, several of his actions have received pushback from faith groups, including in the courts.

Quilters from Pullman Christian Reformed Church in Chicago, Ill., made 12 hanging quilt banners in patterns commemorating the freedom enslaved people sought and found through the Underground Railroad.

Two Christian Reformed Church members, one in British Columbia and one in Ontario, were among this winter’s recipients of a King Charles III Coronation Medal.

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.

A farm boy who God made into a pastor, Gary Hutt, served seven churches during his ministry. He died Feb. 22 at age 87.

The Facebook page of Center Grove Church in Greenwood, Ind., is filling up with beautiful images and daily scriptural reflections as Pastor Art DeBruyn works his way through 1,000 days of devotions.

In over 13 years of serving as a food distribution hub Akron (Ohio) Christian Reformed Church’s The Landing has transformed the congregation, becoming more aware of the poor and working to provide for community needs.

Generally, a decline in American religiousness observed since at least 2007 has slowed over the past four to five years, Pew Research shows in its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

“The massive cutting of foreign aid to those most in need, and from many faith-based organizations supplying it is a gospel issue for us that we must speak to,” reads one of the letters from faith groups.

Classes in the Christian Reformed Church in North America are processing resolutions of disaffiliation and releases of ministers, including eight released at a Jan 16 meeting of Classis Grand Rapids East.

Recognizing the challenge many Christian educators face in integrating faith with mathematical instruction, Dordt University professor Valorie Zonnefeld has built an online resource with real-world applications from a Christian worldview.

Christians Uniting in Song and Prayer invites people from various faith traditions to joint worship services to promote unity within the larger church.

A Christian graduate school founded in the neo-Calvinist tradition in 1967 has severed ties with the Christian Reformed Church in North America over the denomination’s confessional conclusions that homosexual sex is unchaste.

What can we learn from Christian Reformed churches that reported growth through evangelism? 

As of 2024, there are 384 church disability advocates, representing about 40% of the churches, and 23 out of 49 classes have a regional disability advocate.

With ministry share giving down, the Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church is considering “ways to reduce governance costs, fund synod, and use time wisely.” A report will come in May.

Summary: A recent meeting of the COD included reviewing and sending back for edits a proposed update to the process for receiving exceptions to the Statement of Beliefs of the Christian Reformed Church. It ended with a unison, virtual reciting of the CRCNA’s mission statement

Roger Evans, outreach director at New Hope Fellowship in Monroe, Wash., helps people in his city experiencing homelessness find stability, resources, and hope.