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As a seminarian years ago, I pastored a small congregation. I was the preacher, the janitor, and the pianist. All for $5 a week.

A soon-to-be-released Canadian postage stamp was designed by Kevin van der Leek, a member of Fleetwood Christian Reformed Church in

Mike Tigchelaar is a member of Bethel CRC, Waterdown, Ontario.

Dec. 26, 1921 – Feb. 21, 2006

1918 – 2006

A former prisoner’s vision to reach out to his hometown in Mexico has found support from First Christian Reformed Church in Pella,

Since 1920 Christian Reformed World Missions has been working in Nigeria to help develop a national church that today includes Reformed d

1916 - 2005

Rev. Gerrit Vander Plaats, age 89, passed away Dec. 23, 2005, at Mi Casa Nursing Center in Mesa, Ariz.

Christian Reformed World Missions leads the Christian Reformed Church in evangelistic outreach and discipleship outside North America.

Over the past few years, we at Christian Reformed World Missions (CRWM) have been working hard to evaluate our task in light of the chang

This column is devoted to enjoying some of the rich diversity God has blessed us with in the Christian Reformed Church.

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A Prisoner in the Garden

by The Nelson Mandela Foundation

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Danielle Briscoe had no idea that her testimony would help a life come into the world.

An early spring break led to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City for three members of Maple Ridge Christian Reformed Ch

It’s been three years since the onset of the war in Iraq.

Seminary students who intend to minister in the Christian Reformed Church but did not study at Calvin Theological Seminary (CTS) used to

Sagarga Nuvalga should never have survived his birth or the rebellious life he chose to live.

Each year the Christian Reformed Church’s 47 classes (regional groups of churches) send representatives to the denomination’

On the run from war in Sudan, Abeny Kuol huddled in a dark wooded area with her three small children.

Reformed Bible College in Grand Rapids, Mich., has been renamed Kuyper College, in honor of the late Dutch theologian and politician Abra

The office in my high school was on the first floor, in the center of the building.

When rioting threatened to drive Christians out of northern Nigeria, a 20-year legacy of faithful witness by missionaries from Christian