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The words that echo loudest after the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s Synod 2024 will depend on who you are and where you’re situated in the CRCNA.

Synod 2024 asked for advice on the categories of synodical pronouncements and wants a task force to “develop Church Order procedures to discipline officebearers, including disaffiliation initiated by a major assembly.”

Some items on the Agenda for Synod 2024 passed with little to no discussion. Here are those things that synod did or didn’t do.

Synod 2024 appointed a task force to study multisite churches with a mandate to research current iterations of these churches and report back to Synod 2026.

Kent Hendricks used digitized agendas from the Hekman Library website to find the average number of words per overture for nine different years going back to 1944.

그리스도인의 현재 삶은 천국행 열차를 기다리는 승객들의 대기장소가 아니라, 구원된 새 삶을 그리스도의 기대하심으로 살아가는 영광스러운 현장입니다.

A stuntman works to solve a murder and win back the woman he loves.

In his first children’s book, the bestselling author of Relationship Goals shares a tender story that helps kids understand how our families are strengthened by God’s love.

In an inspiring story about self-expression, quirky and artistic Joan harnesses the power of friendship and the bravery of her namesake, Joan of Arc, to embrace her creative nature.

Synod 2024 heard appeals of several classis rulings in closed session. President Derek Buikema read synod’s decisions into the public record.

Derek Buikema tells synod delegates “gentleness is strong” and urges them to refrain from acrimony and slander as they head back to their home congregations.

Grand Rapids East 노회 트리시 보그도프 씨는 북미주 개혁교회의 연례 총회에서 교단과의 작별을 고했다.

Synod declared that churches, members, and officebearers who have an “in protest with ecclesiastical intent” status shall be entered into the process of discipline.

2024 총회는 “모든 노회에서 직분자들이 매년 직분자 서약서에 재서명할 것"을 지시했다. 이는 노회 회의에 참석하는 모든 직분자들이 1년에 한 번을 정해, 처음 안수받거나 임명될 때 서명하게 되어 있는 서약서에 재서명하는 것을 의미한다.

Synod 2024 adopted a proposal to extend the denomination’s current ministry plan by five years, but it wants a revision of the “Grow in Diversity” milestone to emphasize “hospitality” over “ethnic quotas.”

Synod 2024’s young adult representatives shared with The Banner their motivations for attending synod and their experiences at the assembly.

북미주 개혁교회 2024 총회는 "회개하지 않는 모든 죄"를 구원의 문제로 구체적으로 언급할 것을 권고한 제안서를 기각했다.

Synod 2024 addressed recommendations related to the denomination’s efforts to prevent abuse of power, adopting an addition to Church Order that holds all officebearers to its “standards of behavior.”

Considering several requests about administering discipline for churches contradicting decisions of recent synods, Synod 2024 asked for repentance from those congregations and communicated suspension for their officebearers.

Ten years after the Christian Reformed Church in North America and the Reformed Church in America strengthened ties with a historic joint synod, the CRC’s Synod 2024 wants to know if the RCA is still the same church.

After clarifying the use of confessional-difficulty gravamina for church officebearers, Synod 2024 addressed Calvin University’s confessional difficulty process for faculty—asking the board to report to Synod 2025.

2023 총회에서 그라바미나(Gravanina, 그라바멘의 복수형: 신앙고백에 대한 개인적 이의)에 대한 논의가 중단된 후, 2024 총회는 언제 신앙고백 이의 제기서를 사용해야 하며, 어떻게 교회 카운실에서 이것을 처리해야 하는지 명확히 해야 할 책임이 주어졌다.

As Pavlo arrived for class on the LCC International University campus in Lithuania, his ears rang with the news being passed between students and staff: Ukraine was under attack