COVID-19

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, on Navajo land in New Mexico, has increased its food bank service four-fold and also coordinated a bulk food distribution, thanks in part from a grant from World Renew.

Work has moved online for most who are still working. Social distancing and the “stay-at-home” order isolates us, making us feel out of touch and socially disconnected.

I am a risk, not a certainty. If the coronavirus comes for me, the doctors could use their point system to give a ventilator to someone else instead.

Holland Christian Homes’ Grace Manor in Brampton was one of five long-term care homes in the province of Ontario cited in a harsh report about conditions in the facilities. Having addressed the relatively minor citations at Grace Manor, the facility is not subject to the Ontario government appointment of temporary management as at the other four homes.

While remaining at home, residents of the Raybrook campus of Holland Home in Grand Rapids, Mich., joined together in a lawn-and-balcony, socially distanced worship service May 21.

John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, and others comment on studies showing a possible link to a higher rate of coronavirus spread when singing in groups.

Abraham Kuiper warned that “if social developments continue to follow the present course, life on earth will become less and less a heaven and more and more a hell.”

When contagion emptied the cathedral, people painted Mary and Jesus huddled in alcoves and on the walls of streets hardly more than alleys. Prayer continued there.

Community initiatives from Christian Reformed churches across Canada are getting a $40,000 boost thanks to local ministry grants from World Renew and Diaconal Ministries Canada.

Insurance companies are primed to play an increasingly influential role for houses of worship as legislators ease social distancing restrictions and faith groups prepare to reopen their doors. Religion News Service spoke with two insurers.

Wilma Van Schelven, a member of Maranatha Christian Reformed Church in Belleville, Ont., said her congregation’s city-wide food drive began with the Holy Spirit’s prompting.

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Speaking at the CRC's Council of Delegates May meeting, Classis Red Mesa delegate Stanley Jim shared difficult stories of the effect of COVID-19 among Navajo people in New Mexico and Arizona.

My husband and I moved to the U.S. 16 years ago.

Here’s how Trinity Christian College; the Institute for Christian Studies; and Dordt, Calvin, The King’s, and Redeemer universities are marking commencement 2020.

First Christian Reformed Church and Shalom CRC in Sioux Falls, S.D., are both part of Corona Help Sioux Falls, an online resource connecting help from the city's churches with people in need.

Project Hope 3:16, an effort by Heritage Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., is encouraging people and pointing them to God during the coronavirus pandemic.

Five Christian Reformed congregations near Chatham, Ont., have been creating online worship services together since the implementation of physical-distancing guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Holland Christian Homes is a complex of seniors residences in Brampton, Ont. Its two long-term care manors have cases of COVID-19. The community, and its pastors, are showing care and resilience.

From sewing to singing, members of Borculo Christian Reformed Church in Zeeland, Mich., are using the gift of time during COVID-19 isolation.

Besides being in a constantly highly reactive and responsive mode as governmental directives change by the hour, we are also in constant triage mode.

Two Christian Reformed congregations in correctional facilities are experiencing different effects of COVID-19 restrictions.

I now realize the mettle and grit of people like my immigrant parents stemmed organically from their understanding of the nature of life. They knew that suffering isn't an occasional visitor but our home.