April 2025 Issue

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Our Shared Ministry

• Building Community Through Media
• How Indigenous Ministries Live the Gospel
• Living Out Our Collective Calling
• Pray for Synod 2025
• Starting a Christian School in the ‘Right Place’
• Supporting Students’ Learning in Honduras
• Viviendo un llamado colectivo
• 함께 이루어갈 소명

Mixed Media

• In the Garden
• Mixed Media Roundup: April 2025
• So God Made a Grandma: Caring, Faithful, Creative, Devoted, Wise, Generous, Resilient—Just like You
• Thelma

Columns

• Still: A Couple of Women
• Faith Formation: Are Children in the Church Capable of Taking Lead Roles in Our Worship Services?
• In My Shoes: Celebration and Grief
• Discover: Decomposers, Resurrect!
• The Other 6: God’s Red Mittens
• Relationships: How Can I Convince My Married Children to Be Fruitful and Multiply?
• Editorial: Lament
• Editorial: Lamento
• Faith Matters: Monday Morning Mission
• As I Was Saying: The Most Underrated Book of the Bible
• Missional Living: What Is a Holistic Gospel Witness?
• Editorial: 애통하는 마음

Features

• Prepared or Ready?
• Shame: What Is It Good For?

News

• Affiliations Shift in Classis Grand Rapids East and Beyond
• Christians Uniting in Song and Prayer in West Michigan
• Classis Watch: Winter 2025
• CRC Members Honored With Coronation Medals for Community Service
• Faith Contexts for Math Resource Equips Christian Educators
• In Memoriam: Rev. Gary Peter Hutt
• Ontario Church Opens Doors to After-school Enrichment Program
• Pastor’s New Jersey Homestead Taking Community ‘Back to the Garden’