Smaller churches will not be getting a break on their contributions to the Ministers’ Pension Fund.
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For many years the Christian Reformed Church has pooled some revenue from its more than 1,000 local congregations to bring shared ministr
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Synod 2009 adopted a ministry share of $307.53 for calendar year 2010, per active, professing CRC member age 18 and older.
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Are our churches safe enough?
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The CRC’s Faith Formation Committee gave synod delegates a copy of its first draft document, titled “Affirming Baptism and Fo
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In the past, when synod appointed a committee to study an issue, the committee would toil away in isolation for two to three years, then
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In a “State of the Church” address to Synod 2009, CRC Executive Director Rev.
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Delegates to Synod 2009 had a chance to hear about the CRC’s newest plan to better connect member churches with the denomination an
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This year’s Synodical Service of Prayer and Praise was hosted by Elmhurst (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church, the convening church of
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On the last day of Synod 2009, a request from a delegate resulted in the denomination’s executive director, Rev.
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With the average age of synod delegates hovering around 55, synod has never been considered a young person’s activity.
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To define a Reformed way to engage so-called “third wave Pentecostalism,” Synod 2009 recommended two reports to Christian Ref
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Responding to a “strong message of concern and pain,” Synod 2009 instructed the denomination’s Board of Trustees to com
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Unity, Reconciliation, and Justice is a study guide with nine study group lessons about the Belhar Confession, originally produced
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The Christian Reformed Church is, for the first time in its history, proposing the adoption of a new confession: the Belhar Confession.
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Synod 2009 was a real stretch.
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Just months after the CRC’s director of Race Relations was made a voting member of the Ministry Council, the voice of ethnic mino
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March 10, 1946 – January 22, 2009
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When Synod 2009 convenes near Chicago in mid-June, the usual number of delegates will be in attendance, but there will be some changes am
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A 38-member work crew from Second Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., spent spring break in Waveland, Miss., cleaning up da
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“What will you tell your grandchildren you did during the genocide in Darfur?”
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In March, 100 teens from Lynden, Wash., hosted 50 inner-city Seattle teens for a weekend that included worship, paintball games, four-whe
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Only the buzzing of overhead lights disturbed the hush when 834 women listened to Debbie Mayer tell of losing three daughters in a traffi
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Eight members of River Terrace Christian Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich., recently traveled to Nigeria to learn about the Nigerian