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“It is better to give than to receive,” says Scripture (Acts 20:35). But receiving is important too.

Times Square in New York City. Seconds before midnight on December 31. A giant ball drops to usher in the New Year.

Q. What is the ministerial stance on

Africa and the Appalachian Trail may seem light-years apart, but Lou Haveman, 60, brought them together in a unique way.

Every single night, children of northern Uganda walk miles to sleep in safe houses in the town of Gulu and elsewhere.

Christian Reformed church planter Jeff Hough is not shy about promoting Christian day school education.

It was a high-flying summer at Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Acton, Ontario.

Redeemer Ranch in Center, Colo., hosted a good old-fashioned hoedown for about 60 members of the Alamosa Christian Reformed Church.

Entering Ordained Ministry

The 1959 MGM blockbuster Ben-Hur has been released in a new four-disc DVD set, complete with a study guide for using the movie w

This fall 100 members of the GEMS girls’ club at Rosewood Christian Reformed Church in Bellflower, Calif., worked on an extra-speci

The youth group at Fuller Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., traveled all the way to Porto Velho, Brazil, following

For Mike and Sophie Nagtegaal, members of Bridge Community Christian Reformed Church in Langley, British Columbia, a 25th wedding anniver

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

Bert Adema, director of the Christian Reformed Church’s ministry to aboriginal people in Regina, Saskatchewan, has been awarded the

Members of eight Christian Reformed churches from South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota team up each year to help Alfred and Shirley Old L

Peter Bosscher and nine students brought water to the Rwandan town of Muramba this past summer.

Classis Chicago South paired its fall meeting with a conference at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Ill., to offer delegates an

At the end of Edmonton, Alberta’s Candy Cane Lane, past all the lights and glitter, you’ll find shepherds, wise men, Mary, Jo

Calls Extended

From First Christian Reformed Church, Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Rev. Warren H.

Two central California Christian Reformed churches are once

Several hundred neighbors of First Christian Reformed Church in Ripon, Calif., flocked to the church’s California Cruizin’ fa

Rev. Bruce Adema has been appointed the new director of Canadian ministries for the Christian Reformed Church in North America.