A Colorado church spends one Sunday a month with a discipleship focus, leading its congregants in different practices to deepen their faith.

Meeting May 3-5 in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s Council of Delegates and U.S. and Canada ministry boards made appointments, met new staff, and are passing along items to synod.

After five years of building a community of language learners with free English as a Second Language classes, First Christian Reformed Church in Oostburg, Wisc., sees the blessings and prays for deeper community.

A regional organizer with the Christian Reformed Church’s Climate Witness Project shares stories of neighborhood transformation through community collaboration.

About a third of the formal requests coming to Synod 2023 touch on decisions made by last year’s synod on the human sexuality report. Four groups have differing hopes for how synod will respond and different plans for communicating about it.

A kind-hearted pastor who lived by a motto “to be Christlike with a servant heart,” Henry Numan died April 6. He was 81.

“Pastor Pete,” who served as a workplace chaplain for nearly 20 years after 28 years of congregational ministry, died April 13. He was 76.

 In its first time to be hosted at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ont., the Kuyper Conference features Makoto Fujimura as keynote speaker and Kuyper Prize recipient.

When a train derailed near Raymond (Minn.) Christian Reformed Church, Pastor Aaron Greydanus and several church members provided breakfast and shelter to those responding to the fire.

“Lead Like a Boss,” a new nonprofit designed to prepare young women with leadership skills, was inspired by a CRC member’s experience teaching an interim course at an Illinois Christian high school.

Since 2019 the CRCNA has been trying again to “reimagine” ministry shares—the money collected from member churches to pay for the running of the denomination and the ministries we hold in common

Meeting June 9-16 in the Calvin University Chapel, Synod 2023 will revisit decisions from 2022, receive two reports deferred from 2020, and address numerous questions of confessional alignment.

Dan DeKam, a Christian school administrator with over 25 years of experience serving schools in Minnesota and Michigan, is the new director of U.S. ministry operations for the U.S. ministry board of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

A two-decades old compassionate quilt ministry attracted the attention, time—and more than 50 donated quilts—of a West End (Edmonton, Alta.) Christian Reformed Church member.