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Holland (Mich.) Christian High School’s team of student athletes with intellectual disabilities who play with typically developing partner athletes won a state championship this fall and is headed to a national competition in Florida.

Many Christian Reformed congregations are located in and around the flooded Sumas prairie area of southern B.C. and northern Washington. They are facing this devastation together.

From pastors’ blogs to published books, curious creation watchers can learn from those who have taken Jesus’ words, “Look at the birds of the air…” (Matt. 6:26), to heart.

Sanctuary Christian Reformed Church in Seattle, Wash., Platte (S.D.) CRC, and Westwood CRC in Kalamazoo, Mich., each have received a 2021 Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program grant to fund their pastor’s rest and renewal programs next year. 

First Christian Reformed Church of Waupun, Wisc., celebrated its centennial anniversary Aug. 14 and 15, 2021.

After 15 years, Mark Stephenson, is retiring as the director of the Christian Reformed Church’s Disability Concerns ministry. Lindsay Wieland Capel begins as the new director Nov. 15.

With newly published books, podcasts, and a growing annual conference, a group of Christians who identify as LGBTQ and hold to a traditional, biblical sexual ethic is developing.

From welcoming examined candidates into ministry to taking action on requests to synod and other matters, here is the report of Christian Reformed classis meetings of the past several months.

When BJ Magley, cofounder of Heroes Camp in Mishawaka, Ind., was looking for a partner in a mentoring program for girls, she approached Church of the Savior CRC in South Bend, Ind.

With a website launched in September, a team of 15 Christian Reformed pastors, scholars, and leaders want to see the CRC uphold “the historic, beautiful, biblical understanding of human sexuality in doctrine, discipleship, and discipline.”

A missionary and pastor, Bob Ruis was a Christ-focused and mission-focused man with a gift for languages. He died Sept. 30.

Jim Gehrels, a member of Bethlehem Christian Reformed Church in Thunder Bay, Ont., who co-founded the well-drilling charity, Lifewater Canada, has received a posthumous meritorious service medal from the governor general of Canada.

The Christian Reformed Church recognizes nine congregations across the U.S. as union, or dually affiliated, churches with the Reformed Church in America. Following the RCA’s General Synod in mid-October, some are contemplating their associations.

The Faith Communities Today survey found that half of America’s congregations had 65 or fewer people in attendance on any given weekend, a drop from a median attendance level of 137 people in 2000.

In Sioux County, Iowa, a community group of librarians sponsored a panel discussion on vaccinations. They invited a pastor and two professors to participate.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates anticipates returning to in-person, cross border meetings in 2022, necessitating a discussion about how to mitigate potential transmission of the still-circulating coronavirus.

Using funds from its reserves, Resonate Global Mission has established a designated fund to cover costs and support for victims related to allegations of abuse.

A budget deficit of $1.5 million to fund Christian Reformed shared ministry required the denomination’s governance board to review planned strategies to overcome it.

A committee tasked with making design changes to the upcoming synod got a green-light for most of its proposals but is urged to keep technology to a minimum.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates’ October meeting included planning for upcoming synods, setting policies for in-person meetings, dealing with revenue shortfalls, and more.

Issues of same-sex marriage and church discipline generated passionate discussion in the CRC's Council of Delegates over the normally routine choice of the host church of Synod 2023.

Accepting two of its Vision 2020 team’s recommendations, the Reformed Church in America’s General Synod voted to establish a restructuring team and to ensure departing churches can leave with their assets.

Your guide to the history and development of Canadian ministry in the Christian Reformed Church.