September 2025
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Features
News
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A Congolese pastor in Arizona was looking for a church to host his immigrant congregation; a fellow pastor in Michigan said to find a Christian Reformed Church to help.
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Avery DeWitt and Grace VanZandwijk from Stratford (Ont.) Christian Reformed Church earned silver and bronze medals with Team Canada at the World Dragon Boat Racing Championships.
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After a formal act of repentance to its classis, Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church in Calgary, Alta., was removed from limited suspension in March. But 54% of voting congregants had voted for disaffiliation.
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John Calvin CRC in Truro, N.S., had its final worship service April 27 but its facilities will continue to be used for ministry to hurting people through N.S.-based Souls Harbour Rescue Mission.
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“For some of our friends, this group has become a very important part of their week.”
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How would you say your spiritual life and faith has changed over the last 12 months?
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First Christian Reformed Church in Lynden, Wash., established in 1900, celebrates 125 years of ministry this summer.
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Known for his ability to listen to understand, Dirk Evans was a pastor, hospital chaplain, and counselor with an evident love for others.
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A GEMS Club in Kenya received notes and handmade gifts from Friendship Christian Reformed Church’s GEMS Club in Byron Centre, Mich.
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Since 1997 the Crossroads Community Ministries arm of Madison Avenue CRC in Paterson, N.J., has operated discipleship houses for residential-based recovery and transformation.
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Chelwood Christian Reformed Church in Albuquerque, N.M., its local elementary school, and the neighborhood association are all working together to provide students’ families with a supply of food before summer break.
Columns
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Serving the Christian Reformed Church under an altered mandate.
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After a brain injury erases the past eight years of Dr. Amy Larsen's life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients, colleagues, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.
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In 2010, Forest Fenn, an 80-year-old eccentric millionaire, hid a chest full of treasure worth over $1 million somewhere in the Rocky Mountains
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Set in a small coastal town in British Columbia, this semi-cozy procedural stars Rossif Sutherland as melancholy detective Karl Alberg.
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Why had I never written to him? How could I not have?
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Serving the Christian Reformed Church under an altered mandate.
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A team of explorers uses high-resolution cameras attached to remotely controlled submarines to create an exact full-scale 3D digital recreation in stunning detail.
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이러한 의무를 다하는 것이 CRC 소식을 전하는 우리의 방식에 변화를 주지는 않을 것입니다.
Our Shared Ministry
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We have been saved by grace to be ambassadors of Christ’s mercy to this broken and hurting world.
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Since its founding almost 170 years ago, the Christian Reformed Church in North America has valued doing kingdom work together by creating and funding shared ministries
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Hemos sido salvados por gracia para ser embajadores de la misericordia de Cristo en este mundo quebrantado y herido.
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Christopher Watkin, a senior lecturer in French studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will give the 2025 Stob Lecture on Nov. 18.
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우리는 은혜로 구원받아, 깨어지고 고통받는 이 세상에 그리스도의 자비를 전하는 대표자가 되었습니다.
