The girls’ soccer team from Unity Christian High School in Hudsonville, Mich., landed its fifth consecutive state soccer title in D

Kalamazoo (Mich.) Christian High School won the state championship in two different academic competitions this year.

Reaching kids through sports is a passion of Rev.

Tim Ruiter, 12, spelled psittacosis, passacaglia, byssinosis, cretonne, jacqueminot, reredos, oriflamme, and sophrosyne correctly.

Four students from Unity Christian High School in Orange City, Iowa, won first-place honors at the regional Eastern South Dakota Science

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The Korean Council of Christian Reformed Churches met in May for its 26th annual meeting. Pictured here are its newly elected officers.

Meetings of CRC classes (regional groups of churches) are usually attended only by adults.

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to meetings of classis, their regional group of churches.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Canadian Ministries Director, Rev.

The Diaconal Network formed by six Christian Reformed churches in the Paterson, N.J., area, is offering basic and intermediate English as

Jordan Staal, 20, a member of First Christian Reformed Church in Thunder Bay, Ontario, has brought home what for most boys is an una

What started out as high hopes for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup ended in an explosion of generos

Lincoln Center Christian Reformed Church in Grundy Center, Iowa, celebrated 125 years of ministry, looking both to the past and the futur

The youth group of Wheaton (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church was one of three Chicago-area youth groups to receive seed money from the Chr

Watching Synod 2009 live via the Internet was popular again this year.

The Banner’s coverage of Synod 2009 was provided by Editor Rev.

Back to God Ministries International, the broadcast media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church, is making plans to broadcast the gos

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Oldest delegate: 82

Youngest delegate: 25

Average age of minister delegates: 51

Synod debates can be long and intense, so it’s important for synod’s president to occasionally inject some humor and break th

Synod 2009’s sergeant at arms was Rev. Archie L. Vander Hart from Classis Lake Superior.

At age 82, Frank De Boer was Synod’s oldest delegate, for the second year in a row.