CeCe Winans won two Dove Awards at the 2022 ceremony, including making history as the first Black female soloist to win Artist of the Year.
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At an Oct. 28 meeting Calvin University’s board of trustees determined to “retain faculty members who expressed disagreement with part of the CRCNA position on human sexuality that was formalized by the CRC’s Synod 2022.”
Wiebe Boer, the university’s 12th president, is the son of Christian Reformed Church missionaries and spent 30 years living in Nigeria.
The seventh-annual theology conference of the Center for Pastor Theologians included speakers Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Russell Moore, Walter Kim, and Karen Swallow Prior.
Six pastors from the U.S. and Canada visited Michigan last week, completing the in-person part of their seven-month Korean Institute in Ministry training, a pathway to ministry in the CRC for pastors trained in other denominations.
Monroe Community Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., was named most outstanding venue for the city’s 2022 ArtPrize festival, and the architect behind the church’s ministry center renovation was recognized by the American Institute of Architects.
“It’s definitely a factor,” said a freshman nursing major at Calvin University. “You see it’s a Christian college, and then immediately ask, what kind of Christian college is it?”
Learning from people who are engaged in prayer and leading prayer circles throughout the Christian Reformed Church, denominational prayer shepherd Jon Hoekema wants to encourage cultures of prayer.
The Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church has endorsed consolidating three global training resource ministries into the work of Resonate Global Mission by January 2023.
The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates, not unanimously, endorsed a process for Council members to request an exception to a specific understanding in signing the Council’s Statement of Agreement.
The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates has asked staff for a feasibility report on continuing the Inspire conference into 2024.
The Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church affirmed a co-director model for the denomination’s reorganized Congregational Ministries, requested a feasibility report for an Inspire 2024 conference, and endorsed consolidating three training ministries under Resonate Global Mission.
Congregational Ministries in the Christian Reformed Church is made up of ministries focused on serving congregations and their needs.
A new survey of 1,000 U.S. Protestant pastors finds that half are concerned the economy is hurting their churches.
Seventy-seven years after his death in Europe during World War II, the family of Private First Class Donald Hofman, including his younger brother, former CRC general secretary Leonard Hofman, interred his remains in a military funeral.
Starting from a connection between friends and an affinity in Reformed theology, 38 Venezuelan churches are in the process of joining the Christian Reformed Church in North America via Classis California South.
The appointed Dignity Team for the Christian Reformed Church in North America is now available, and regional groups of congregations are beginning to collect feedback on the proposed implementation of a denomination Code of Conduct.
Whether serving as pastor, missionary, church planter, or ministering in his retirement years, Ramon Borrego lived humbly and practiced hospitality. He died Aug. 31 at age 92.
Christian Reformed Church members from across Canada met for a virtual conversation Saturday, Sept. 24.
Serving for 30 years as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, John Hoogland earned the rank of colonel and in retirement served as an associate pastor. He died Sept. 4 at age 88.
Inspired by their pastor’s sermon on Jesus’ parable of the great banquet, the congregation of ClearView Christian Reformed Church in Oakville, Ont., hosted guests from five community groups to ‘taste the life we were made and meant for.’
Criteria for being on the list include filing for or receiving a religious exemption under Title IX, a civil rights in education law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
Recognizing the changing makeup of their neighborhood, the congregation of Lee Street Christian Reformed Church in Wyoming, Mich., turned its annual BASH into a celebration of neighbors’ homelands.
A week’s worth of celebratory activities marked 150 years of “God’s grace, goodness, and faithfulness” for Vogel Center Christian Reformed Church in McBain, Mich.