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On Saturday October 28, more than 200 people gathered at Clearview Christian Reformed Church in Oakville, Ont., to sing, create crafts, laugh, and give God “Every Praise” at this fall’s Friendship Festival.

“Want to see what true power really looks like?”

Presbyterian pastor Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique, otherwise known as The Welcome Wagon, have created another album of unconventional pop songs that dive headfirst into the life of faith.

Bizzy Mizz Lizzie is busier than any other bee in Hivetown. 

There had been no symptoms.

One thing we have learned over the years—too often the hard way...

Bless your heart, preach it!

There isn’t really any way to prepare one’s heart for a horrific tragedy.

Back in the South African apartheid era, I helped organize anti-apartheid efforts in our local community in Michigan.

Our youngest two children were 11 and 15 when we adopted them

“A cord of three strands is not easily broken”

I appreciate your dedication to bringing the Word every Sunday.

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classis, a regional grouping of churches.

Congregations and communities of believers from all over the Christian Reformed church commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation 

Last month, participating in a project spearheaded by Dignity for All: The Campaign for a Poverty-Free Canada

Need help navigating an emotional crisis but would rather not call your elder?

In 2010, Apple founder Steve Jobs admitted that his children had never used an iPad:

In a time when even the smallest difference seems to cause tension and divide humans,

Told from the perspective of a young girl who describes herself as “the most beautifulest,

While Jessica visits a friend in Paris, they are caught in the 2015 terrorist attack on the Bataclan theater.

Forging a mutually satisfying and long-term “fit” between congregation and pastor is a matter of considerable art, science, and prayer for both pastors and churches alike.