Next year young adults will not only observe synod, they will be able to speak from the floor.
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Synod 2010 took several steps to improve the CRC’s pastoral care of victims of sexual abuse by a church leader and its care of thos
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“I have almost been moved to tears about the sensitivity that you have shown today,” said Rev.
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Synod 2010 approved a guiding principle that moves the denomination toward opening the Lord’s Table to younger baptized members who
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Synod 2010 decided not to allow two West Michigan churches to transfer to another classis hundreds of miles away.
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In a Christian Reformed version of Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, Dave Larsen had Synod 2010 delegates in stitches on S
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More than 200 people attended a conference in Cobourg, Ontario, to learn more about being a supportive Christian community for individual
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Faced with an agenda of more than 700 pages, the 186 delegates to Synod 2010, along with advisers and staff, will have a long, busy week
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A group that started in order to teach quilting has evolved into a ministry of comfort in Oak Forest, Ill.
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A nika Farhan, a Muslim from Bangladesh; and Katelyn Fuller, a Christian from California; opened their email last summer to discover that
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Several pairs of parents and teens from Fredericton (New Brunswick) Christian Reformed Church recently traveled together to New Orleans t
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Jim Bode, professor of network services technology at State College of Florida, turned a recent sabbatical into three mission trips to sh
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Two churches in California are putting wheels under the thrift store idea.
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March 9, 1918 – November 14, 2009
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The story of how Rev. Wen-Yau Hsieh wound up pastoring a church in Iowa by way of Queens, N.Y., is an unexpected one.
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For 10 students from Campus Chapel, the Christian Reformed campus ministry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spring break was a
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While watching the 9 o’clock news last December, something he says he rarely does, Rev.
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Overwhelmed by God’s providence—that’s how Carissa Elenbaas feels in the wake of the Chile earthquake, which she and tw
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I feel like this is a calling.
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November 5, 1917 – February 19, 2010
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Saugatuck (Mich.) Christian Reformed Church transformed itself into an art gallery recently, hosting an art show with a creation theme fo
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Convicted by the searing images of devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti, high school senior Karl Bratt, a member of Racin
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Synod 2006 said that baptized children are part of God’s family and should be invited to partake in the Lord’s Supper with th