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.
As cases of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus first recognized in Wuhan, China in December 2019, grow in North America, ongoing news is expected from the Christian Reformed Church's congregations and ministries. These are stories connected to the virus, disease, and public health response.
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- READ MOREJohn 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. 
- READ MOREAbraham Kuiper warned that “if social developments continue to follow the present course, life on earth will become less and less a heaven and more and more a hell.” 
- READ MOREWhen contagion emptied the cathedral, people painted Mary and Jesus huddled in alcoves and on the walls of streets hardly more than alleys. Prayer continued there. 
- READ MORECommunity 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. 
- READ MOREInsurance 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. 
- READ MOREWilma 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. 
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- READ MORESpeaking 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. 
- READ MOREFirst 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. 
- READ MOREHere’s how Trinity Christian College; the Institute for Christian Studies; and Dordt, Calvin, The King’s, and Redeemer universities are marking commencement 2020. 
- READ MOREMy husband and I moved to the U.S. 16 years ago. 
- READ MOREProject 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. 
- READ MOREFive 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. 
- READ MOREHolland 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. 
- READ MOREFrom sewing to singing, members of Borculo Christian Reformed Church in Zeeland, Mich., are using the gift of time during COVID-19 isolation. 
- READ MORETwo Christian Reformed congregations in correctional facilities are experiencing different effects of COVID-19 restrictions. 
- READ MOREBesides being in a constantly highly reactive and responsive mode as governmental directives change by the hour, we are also in constant triage mode. 
- READ MOREI now realize the mettle and grit of people like my immigrant parents stemmed organically from their understanding of the nature of life. They knew that suffering isn't an occasional visitor but our home. 
- READ MOREYouth groups and children's ministries within Christian Reformed congregations are meeting the challenge of COVID-19 lockdown measures with creativity. 
- READ MORECovid-19 has put public health into practical terms for us today. People everywhere are being asked to think of their communities above themselves and stay home and limit contact with others. 
- READ MOREEighteen pastors from Christian Reformed churches in Classis Zeeland prepared a recorded prayer service to share with their congregation members at home. 
- READ MOREWhat are we to do when our regular structures of corporate worship have been upended and public gatherings are prohibited? 
- READ MOREThe Bridge in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., which launched Sunday services in the fall, hosted a COVID-19-compliant drive-in service for Easter 2020, reaching 800 people in their cars and 3,000 online. 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
