November 2022

Recognizing the changing makeup of their neighborhood, the congregation of Lee Street Christian Reformed Church in Wyoming, Mich., turned its annual BASH into a celebration of neighbors’ homelands.

Inspired by their pastor’s sermon on Jesus’ parable of the great banquet, the congregation of ClearView Christian Reformed Church in Oakville, Ont., hosted guests from five community groups to ‘taste the life we were made and meant for.’

Generation Z (ages 5-24) is marked by an outlook of hopelessness and despair, says campus pastor Ryan Farrell. He supervised the development of a resource to help understand and reach this group.

Serving for 30 years as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, John Hoogland earned the rank of colonel and in retirement served as an associate pastor. He died Sept. 4 at age 88.

A faithful pastor in the Christian Reformed Church for almost 60 years, Ken Havert touched the lives of many people with his genuine kindness. He died August 4 at age 89.

Whether serving as pastor, missionary, church planter, or ministering in his retirement years, Ramon Borrego lived humbly and practiced hospitality. He died Aug. 31 at age 92.

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, in Sioux Center, Iowa, is one of several congregations working to resettle displaced Ukrainian families.

A week’s worth of celebratory activities marked 150 years of “God’s grace, goodness, and faithfulness” for Vogel Center Christian Reformed Church in McBain, Mich.

Samaritan’s Carriage, an accessible transportation and excursion service founded by members of First Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently resumed ministry after being sidelined by the pandemic.

Seventy-seven years after his death in Europe during World War II, the family of Private First Class Donald Hofman, including his younger brother, former CRC general secretary Leonard Hofman, interred his remains in a military funeral.