Heartland Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in Chilliwack, B.C., helped to build a community trail system five years ago. Continuing community partnerships are now deepening relationships to protect community health.

Christian Reformed Church members, in Iowa, Michigan, and Montana, won seats in the U.S. election November 3.

On Thanksgiving, the Elgersma family from Community Church of Richmond Hill, Ont., helped to make a longstanding community dinner tradition ‘to-go’ for 2020. The outreach will now continue as a monthly meal-making event.

Global Coffee Break, a small group Bible study ministry, turned 50 in 2020 but the coronavirus pandemic put the celebration of that milestone on hold.

Baldwin (Wisc.) Christian Reformed Church increased its involvement in the annual Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift program this year by hosting a local workshop for other interested churches.

Pease (Minn.) Christian Reformed Church marked 125 years of ministry in 2020, choosing the theme “Building with Faith, Laboring with Love, and Inspiring with Hope.”

Harvey Stob, a missionary to Argentina and pastor to three U.S. Christian Reformed Churches, died Sept. 25.

After almost a decade serving as director of the Christian Reformed Church’s Safe Church Ministry, Bonnie Nicholas is retiring in November.

One hundred years ago, on Oct. 30, 1920, the Christian Reformed Church’s first missionaries to China left by ship from San Francisco.

A partnership between River City Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Cambridge, Ont., and Trinity Centres Foundation, a group that funds and operates transformation projects, is reclaiming a historic church building.

Several reports received by the CRC’s Council of Delegates at its October meeting noted concerns of tension, stress, and struggle for pastors. The Banner talked to staff of the Pastor Church Resources ministry to find out where there is help.

A pastor and professor committed to a Kingdom-focused world-and-life view that proclaims the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every sphere of life, John Vander Stelt died Sept. 19.

In Prince Edward Island, public health standards have asked for gatherings of 50 or fewer. Charlottetown Christian Reformed Church decided to host satellite sites so their entire congregation can worship in distanced groups each Sunday.

Meeting by video conference Oct. 14-16, the Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church reviewed planned new job descriptions for restructured positions, and addressed unity and diversity as part of its agenda.

From 90 minutes on Unity and Diversity Engagement to approving a full-time race relations leadership position in Canada, members of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates had anti-racism efforts on several parts of its agenda.

In Oregon and California annual summer wildfires hit close to home for Christian Reformed congregations Sunnyslope CRC, Fairfield CRC, and Napa Valley Community Church.

The Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church, meeting this week by video conference, narrowly decided to communicate grief over an earlier decison by Neland Avenue CRC to ordain a deacon who is in a same-sex marriage.

Vogel Center Christian Reformed Church in McBain, Mich., will host its third-annual harvest party Oct. 17.

As educators face unexpected challenges in the COVID-19 pandemic, members of River Rock Community Church in Rockford, Mich., are ‘adopting’ teachers at two nearby elementary schools to offer monthly encouragement.

Gayla R. Postma, The Banner’s longtime news editor, is retiring effective Oct. 30.

In Michigan and in Iowa two Christian Reformed congregations have invited others to join them in corporate prayer.

At Lady Flower Gardens in northeast Edmonton, Alta., the contributions of vulnerable people are valued in the work of community agriculture.

Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, while denying allegations against its founder, who died in May, said they’ve launched an "independent external investigation."