May 2025
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Features
News
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The “Prayer Vigil for Foreign Aid" event at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church on March 11 included faith-based charitable groups such as World Renew.
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As of 2024, there are 384 church disability advocates, representing about 40% of the churches, and 23 out of 49 classes have a regional disability advocate.
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As of April 1 Moses Chung will be back with Resonate Global Mission as Asia Mission Team Leader.
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The CRC maintains a relationship of churches in communion with 23 denominations and of churches in cooperation with 21 denominations/partners.
In Memoriam: Rev. Walter Swets
1935-2025READ MOREA source of joy to those around him, Wally Swets trusted fully in his heavenly Father and believed that every minute was a gift from God. He died March 27 at age 90.
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The Facebook page of Center Grove Church in Greenwood, Ind., is filling up with beautiful images and daily scriptural reflections as Pastor Art DeBruyn works his way through 1,000 days of devotions.
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Kathy Vandergrift, Philip Visser, Peter VanderZaag, and Jim Romahn—Christian Reformed Church members in Ontario—each received a King Charles III Coronation Medal in recognition of their community contributions.
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U.S. congregations of the Christian Reformed Church in North America involved in refugee sponsorship and resettlement pivot or wait while the admission program is suspended.
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Roger Evans, outreach director at New Hope Fellowship in Monroe, Wash., helps people in his city experiencing homelessness find stability, resources, and hope.
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In over 13 years of serving as a food distribution hub Akron (Ohio) Christian Reformed Church’s The Landing has transformed the congregation, becoming more aware of the poor and working to provide for community needs.
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World Renew’s 40-year track record of working with community partners on anti-poverty initiatives in Bangladesh contributed to its recent success in being awarded a substantial grant from Global Affairs Canada.
Columns
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How do these two things connect?
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¿Cómo se relacionan ambas cosas?
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One of my goals in teaching African church history is to dispel the myth all too present in Africa that Christianity is a white person’s religion.
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Gravity is easy to observe and to measure, but we still don’t fully understand why it works the way it does.
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I have to make a big decision regarding a job opportunity. I've been reading my Bible and praying, but I still don’t know what to do. How do I know whether I’m making the right choice?
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I see Christians debating about the “sin of empathy.” Is that a biblical teaching?
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If the past few years taught us anything, it’s that a church needs durable forces to counter its own worst tendencies.
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A breathtaking look at a disappearing way of life among the haenyeo sea divers of Jeju Island, South Korea.
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공감과 정의는 어떻게 연결될 수 있을까요?
Our Shared Ministry
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Resonate, the Christian Reformed Church’s mission agency, uses Timothy Leadership Training to equip pastors and other Christian leaders with a Reformed worldview of mission.
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These “healthy and sustained connections to the broader church” provide opportunities for fruitful ministry, advocacy, shared vision, and a unified voice within and outside North America.
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Yet she thought prayer, particularly intercessory prayer, was not a spiritual discipline she was particularly good at.
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In partnership with Texas A&M University Central Texas, these chaplains pursue a master’s degree in counseling while completing over 500 hours of supervised counseling.
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The way God works through prayer never ceases to amaze me.
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When we began praying in this way, brilliant ideas started to flow.
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Estas «conexiones sanas y constantes con la iglesia en general» ofrecen oportunidades para un ministerio fructífero, abogacía, visión compartida y una voz unificada dentro y fuera de Norteamérica.
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이러한 "더 넓은 교회와의 건강하고 지속적인 연결"은 북미 안팎으로 풍성한 사역, 정의 구현 활동, 공동의 비전, 그리고 하나의 목소리를 낼 수 있는 기회를 제공합니다.