When news got out about what Rev. John Van Sloten was preaching on, protesters turned up outside the church.

For an Alberta youth pastor, hosting a weekly radio program ties together his love of radio with his love of ministry.

Software developer Aaron Eisses used $10 and his design talents to create an Apple app that will benefit his church.

CRC Board of Trustees says future hires must align with goal of 25 percent racial diversity in senior leadership.

Hammond church uses community meals to meet the neighbors.

Members of an Ontario church are helping sell Honduran coffee and ensure fair wages for growers.

Using technology normally intended for prisoners to make video appearances in court, an Illinois church worshiped with inmates of Angola Prison.

By adding intergenerational activities, children’s Sunday school has become both focused and magnified.

For Rev. David Vroege and his family, stewardship of creation, money, and health meant giving up their car.

By the grace of God and a few good men from a Montana CRC, ex-prisoner Richard Stewart made a successful transition from prison to life on the outside.

An old McDonalds building gets transformed into a weightlifting gym with a side order of youth ministry.

A Lansing, Illinois, church sets up rows of small white crosses at Easter as a symbolic cemetery for aborted babies.

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Rev. Duane Kelderman is leaving his post as vice president at Calvin Theological Seminary this summer.

A Prinsburg church helps raise funds for a family with three kids who use wheelchairs.

A mosaic brings beauty and joy to an inner city neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Rev. Moses Chung has been appointed to lead Christian Reformed Home Missions.

A Portland church gets creative to find family-friendly activities throughout the rainy winter months.

Language and life skills help new arrivals succeed

Beth Swagman resigns as director of the CRC’s Safe Church Ministry; committee cites budget constraints as reason.

A classis in the U.S. is offering subsidies to attract theologically conservative seminarians to intern in their region.

A new church plant in Byron Center is drawing women from its neighborhood by offering Zumba fitness classes.

A nine-year-old from East Saugatuck will be the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Michigan Goodwill Ambassador for 2011.