Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Lansing, Ill., adopted Kyananjula in Uganda, a village so decimated by the AIDS epidemic that there a
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Single working mothers found a friend in Bridgeway Community Christian Reformed Church, Haledon, N.J., this past year.
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A victory ride around their community in a fire truck—flashing lights and all—helped Manhattan (Mont.) Christian School stude
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The Banner and Reformed Worship garnered several awards recently from the Associated Church Press (ACP) and the Evangelical Press Associa
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A 66-foot-long submarine sandwich in honor of 31 junior and senior high school graduates stretched along two walls at Immanuel Christian
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The Roseland Christian School community in Chicago is grieving the death of former student Blair Holt, 16, as are members of Pullman Chri
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“This is only your first 150 years,” said Rev. Kobus J. J.
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Twelve thousand worshipers, including synod delegates, gathered Sunday afternoon in the Van Andel arena, downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.&mda
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Rev. Setri Nyomi, General Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), brought greetings to this year’s synod.
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Synod 2007 urged the churches to become familiar with the Belhar Confession, a declaration focusing on racial and ethnic unity and reconc
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Rarely are an individual’s contributions to the church noted by a formal act of synod.
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Synod 2007 opened its last day with a service of repentance for personal and institutional racism, focusing particularly on a 1920 synodi
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Ministry Share Breakdown for 2008*
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Synod 2007 adopted a ministry share for calendar year 2008 of $298.58 per active, professing CRC member 18 years and older.
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Synod 2007 called for a study of all the covenantal, communal commitments we have as a denomination that will consider how best to financ
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Synod 2007 decided that church planters may vote at classis (regional meetings).
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Synod warmly welcomed 30 new candidates for CRC ministry this year.
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Synod delegates gave a standing ovation to Rev.
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Synod 2007 made it more difficult to become a minister of the Word in the Christian Reformed Church without first obtaining the prescribe
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Synod approved the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible for use in Christian Reformed worship services.
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Synod 2007 said that Christian Reformed churches may not call candidates from the seminaries of the Reformed Church in America (RCA).
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Synod delegates declined a request from Classis Toronto to reinstate a Canadian director of Chaplaincy Ministries but shone a spotlight o
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Synod 2007 made it clear that every classis must have child-safety policies and a Safe Church Team to protect its most vulnerable members