In 1919, when Johanna Veenstra crossed the Atlantic, she became the first Christian Reformed missionary to serve outside North America and its first female missionary.
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In making the visit, she saw how volunteers such as these in the village of Akokma are making progress possible even after an official program has ended.
I await the day when my grandchildren see the stone at our home and ask me, “Why did your Trinity colleagues send you off with that verse?”
“(It) forced me to reevaluate my life and realize that this was not the life that I wanted to live.”
젊은이들이 그들의 인생과 소명을 준비하는 데에 광범위하면서도 집중적인 교육이 필요합니다.
“Everywhere in Kenya and Uganda, (climate change) is known and accepted as fact. They don’t have time to argue about whether climate change is real or not because they are already living in the effects of it.”
Broad as well as focused learning is required as young people prepare for their lives and callings.
Across the nations, guides draw us toward the mountain of God. Sometimes those guides lead us from their youth, with humble hearts fiercely dedicated to living justice and loving mercy.
“The Holy Spirit is so active that it can offer people what you as a preacher would never in a million years think would come out of that sermon.”
어떤 사역자들은 여러가지 일을 동시에 다루는 역할을 선호합니다. 그들은 “다른 직업”이 복음 전도를 위한 기회, 즉, 현실 세계와 연결되는 기회 혹은 다양한 은사를 더 잘 활용할 수 있는 기회라고 생각합니다.
One man’s story of discovering the hope of salvation through Back to God Ministries International’s outreach team in Russia.
An increasing number of Christian Reformed Church pastors are bivocational, earning income from both pastoring and a different job.
Calvin College Rehabilitation Services, in partnership with local organizations, is providing screenings and classes to improve balance and reduce the risk of falls for people older than 60.
The three-hour seminar opened with Halstead’s evangelistic conversion: at 17 years old, a Fellowship of Christian Athletes coach shared the gospel with him, and he became a Christian.
Some ministers prefer this dual-focused role; they find their “other job” is an opportunity for evangelism, connecting to the real world, or a better use of their varied set of gifts.
On the Tour of Hope they took in April 2018, members of the Rehoboth (N. Mex.) High School Choir volunteered to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
Back in 1980, Lori Persenaire lay in the hospital where she would soon pass away.
Huan coordinates ministry for a network of Chinese pastors who are also blind. In fact, she’s made it her mission to minister to other people who are blind in China—currently over 17 million.
The Emyedus are one of the local couples who have turned their relationship around through World Renew’s Stepping Stones program.
Set for Aug. 1-3 in Windsor, Ont., at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts, Inspire 2019 will be a great time of worship and fellowship as well as a chance to learn about ways in which the Christian Reformed Church is offering the gospel message to people around the world.
Jul Medenblik, president of Calvin Theological Seminary, recalls praying in January 2018 with a graduate who was returning to China to work at an unregistered seminary. This seminary had been vandalized, and the government ultimately ended worship services at the church affiliated with the seminary. It would be a tough job, and Medenblik prayed that God would be with the graduate.
We live in an often confusing, ever shifting, and broken world. We see changes happening dramatically in seemingly accelerated ways. How ought the church to respond?
변화 자체는 총회연구위원회가 언급할 수 있는 것이 아닙니다.
It’s common for people to believe it can’t happen in their congregation. As we’ve seen in these other instances, though, it can and it does happen even among “our” churches. Here are a few key things to keep in mind if your congregation finds itself navigating similar situations.