Steven Brennan, a 5-year-old from Calgary, Alberta, biked 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) to raise money for earthquake survivors in Chile.
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Recognition was not what Gordy VanHaitsma had in mind when he started the Read to Ride program in his Grand Rapids, Mich., neighborhood.
Vacation Bible school at The Tapestry Christian Reformed Church in Richmond, British Columbia, went green this year.
Bolstered by a back brace and leg braces, Mary Pensyl testified at a July outdoor worship service about her gratefulness to members of Mo
Twelve members from New Hope Christian Reformed Church in Bangor, Maine, helped to spruce up the Downeast Elementary School in town.
A women’s prison isn’t the most likely setting for a ladies’ tea, but that’s where the women of CrossPoint Christ
Despite it being gardening season, a group of West Coast gardeners chose to attend a conference rather than get out in their gardens.
Fifteen teens from Living Hope Community Christian Reformed Church in Fox Lake, Wis., spent a cold night sleeping in cardboard boxes and
Gateway Christian Reformed Church in Merced, Calif., is planting seeds by planting trees.
Would a church still be a church if there were no regular Sunday service?
Alger Community Christian Reformed Church in Bellingham, Wash., has a unique outreach through miniature trains and 900 feet of track.
New England Chapel, a Christian Reformed church in Franklin, Mass., uses empty bowls to help fight world hunger.
When a disaster of the magnitude of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti strikes, rebuilding just takes time.
Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to meetings of classis, a regional grouping of churches.
It often seems like we’re out of balance in our Scripture reading and heavily favor the New Testament and Psalms,” says Katie
Battling graffiti and taggers seems like a hopeless task in many areas, but Rev. Zeke Nelson is taking a different approach.
Several years ago, Kevin Roukema attended a “Discover Your Gifts” workshop at New Life Ministries Christian Reformed Church i
Peter Hileman, a successful trial lawyer in Doylestown, Pa., joined forces with Pam Ramos and others to form a free legal clinic in inner
What is a peeler? How do you make food at home from scratch?
When First Christian Reformed Church of Barrie, Ontario, decided to host a conference about the issues facing pre-teen girls, the respons
New trees are taking root in a Newmarket, Ontario, park, thanks to members of Bethel Christian Reformed Church.
Nine teens and five youth leaders took the trip of a lifetime to northern Ghana in the spring to help at King’s Village, a Christia
The congregations of Gateway Christian Reformed Church in Merced, Calif., and Fleetwood CRC in Surrey, British Columbia, have left the bu
The plants didn’t look like much when distributed in May, but they ended up providing fresh produce for hundreds of struggling loca