Senior Pastor Doug Ripley looked at Decatur Baptist Church’s books and quickly realized the annual budget was totally out of whack.
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Stories from people, congregations and ministries of the CRCNA, reported by The Banner's news editor and a team of regular correspondents and Church Worldwide news from the Religion News Service. Send news tips to news@thebanner.org.
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Archaeologists have discovered Martin Luther’s kitchen trash, revealing new personal information about the father of the Protestant
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Due to the election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in Congress, some U.S.
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Entering Ordained Ministry
In 2008 the following seminary graduates were examined and approved for ministry in the CRC: Peter Arm
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Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to classis, a regional grouping of churches.
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For the first time in the history of Holland (Mich.) Christian High School, the women’s volleyball team captured the state champion
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The women’s volleyball team of Western Christian High School in Hull, Iowa, captured the state Class 2A volleyball championship in
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Members of Bravo Community Christian Reformed Church prayed for God to open doors to increase the church’s revenues, and God did ju
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1929 - 2008
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Martial arts classes and Bible study go hand in hand at Ebenezer Christian Reformed Church in Berwyn, Ill.
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Horizon Community Church, a Christian Reformed church located in a suburb of Chicago, recently began feeding its neighbors physically as
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Dan Woodwyk doesn’t let opportunities to serve pass him by.
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Members of Duncan (B.C.) Christian Reformed Church don’t drink just any coffee.
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Grant Dykstra (left), Elijah Palmer (center), and Kyle Rietma (right) were part of the winning team at Dordt College’s first annual
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Classes Hudson and Hackensack (regional groups of churches) are now providing translations of classis documents in Spanish and Korean and
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Even though Smithville and Kingston are a four-hour drive from each other, Christian Reformed congregations in the two Ontario towns coll
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Ruth Donker, a Banner news correspondent in California for 25 years, passed away at the age of 85.
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Two West Michigan churches spent 2008 celebrating their 125th anniversaries.
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Rev. Jeff Voorhees was on his way to visit a parishioner on Nov. 21 when his car slid on icy roads into a tractor-trailer.
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Christian book publisher Zondervan is acquiring BibleGateway.com, a popular nonprofit Bible search engine, from Gospel Communications I
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June 17, 1919 – July 25, 2008
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A judge has dismissed a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty could not be served notice of the litigation
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