From sewing to singing, members of Borculo Christian Reformed Church in Zeeland, Mich., are using the gift of time during COVID-19 isolation.
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Two Christian Reformed congregations in correctional facilities are experiencing different effects of COVID-19 restrictions.
Rev. Taehoo Lee, pastor of the emerging Christian Reformed congregation North Philly Community Church, was the guest speaker in an online missional forum for Korean pastors.
Pastor, professor, writer, translator, editor and Holy Land tour guide, Sierd Woudstra died March 22. He was 92.
Youth groups and children's ministries within Christian Reformed congregations are meeting the challenge of COVID-19 lockdown measures with creativity.
The Table, an emerging Christian Reformed church in Denver, Colo., adapted two spring planting traditions to keep physical distancing protocols amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eighteen pastors from Christian Reformed churches in Classis Zeeland prepared a recorded prayer service to share with their congregation members at home.
The Bridge in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., which launched Sunday services in the fall, hosted a COVID-19-compliant drive-in service for Easter 2020, reaching 800 people in their cars and 3,000 online.
Rev. Myung Jae Lee, a pastor who devoted his life to studying, teaching and expanding God’s kingdom, died March 12. He was 99.
Staff at Calvin University's Center for Social Research released a set of tools to help make the data around the spread of COVID-19 more approachable.
The image in Matt. 25:36 of ministering to Jesus when visiting the sick or in prison is fitting for Bill Van Staalduinin, who volunteers with Yokefellow Prison Ministry from Terra Ceia Christian Reformed Church in Pantego, N. C.
Members of Ocheyedan (Iowa) Christian Reformed Church Cadet club carry on a yearly tradition of erecting three crosses on the Ocheyedan Mound.
Sunrise Community Church’s Navigation Center is one of the only still-operating services to homeless people in South Austin, Texas, during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Synod 2020, the annual leadership meeting of the Christian Reformed Church, has been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Darren Roorda, Canadian Ministries Director of the Christian Reformed Church, was one of more than 80 Canadian religious leaders to sign a joint statement to Canadians this week, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christian Reformed congregations from British Columbia to Michigan and Ontario are ministering, with and without technology, as physical distancing orders persist to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Congregations such as Zion Christian Reformed Church in Oshawa, Ont., and All Nations CRC in Halifax, N.S., are learning to use dance in worship.
Centrepointe Community Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alta., and its developing Portugese-language ministry, Igreja Ponto Central, are in partnership, ‘one body, one church.’
Depending on the date of their departure, mission trips from congregations or Christian Reformed-affiliated schools went ahead this March or have been postponed as the world reacts to the spread of COVID-19.
As part of a two-day, video-based summit gathering practical and spiritual wisdom to equip churches ministering during the global pandemic, Colin Watson, acting executive director of the Christian Reformed Church, participated in a panel conversation “Theological Reflections on Shifting Church Worship In Response to a Prolonged Crisis.”
Jacob Uitvlugt, who served Christian Reformed churches in the U.S. and Canada, died March 4. He was 91.
Fairlawn Christian Reformed Church in Whitinsville, Mass., welcomed congregants and friends to a Santo, Santo, Santo (Holy, Holy, Holy) Festival March 8, with the help of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
Many Christian publishers and content providers have discounted or made their services free to help families and churches continue to deepen their faith while staying at home.
Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classis, a regional group of churches. Here is the report of classis meetings of the past few months.