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Our Shared Ministry
Our Shared Ministry is a place to hear, discuss, and celebrate the ministry that we, as the Christian Reformed Church, are involved in across North America and around the world.
Recently the Back to God Ministries International Arabic outreach team received a very angry and threatening text message from a Jordania
Back to God Ministries International (BTGMI) began broadcasting the gospel by radio into mainland China in 1975.
It is amazing how quickly life can change. The least-expected events can alter things radically with little or no warning.
Breakfast at a maximum-security prison, lunch at a huge garbage dump, a stop at a shantytown before dinner, and a visit to street childre
Out of love and respect for the woman they call their “spiritual mother,” four members of the Kuteb tribe in northern Nigeria
On any given day, Christian Reformed Church members pray—alone or with others—about the war in Iraq, hunger in Africa, earthq
When Calvin Theological Seminary partnered with the Barnabas Foundation last October to present the third annual Christians and Money Con
After more than 50 years of service to the Christian Reformed Church, Rev.
Like most campus ministers, Rev.
When I was a boy I thought it would be great to see the future. My imagination ran wild.
When Sairah and her parents first became Christians, they were persecuted by their community.
When Renata da Silva Moura learned that she had cancer, she thought her life was over.
Got any great ideas for a new Christian Reformed Church ministry or a new way in which to expand a CRC ministry or program that is alread
The future success and health of the CRC lies in engaging youth in relevant ministries and in giving them ownership of those ministr
Organ music may have a reputation as being dull or dirge-like, but John Hamersma has set out to prove that it doesn’t have to be th
Haunting Hills
DEAR READERThis summer I rode my bike—but not just around the campground or to the nearest ice cream shop.
The pace of change is swift at Calvin Theological Seminary right now, just as it is at many congregations.
The most exciting part of being at Calvin Theological Seminary (CTS) is seeing and hearing “God stories”—the stories of
From the outside the aging Port Arthur house doesn’t live up to the name people in this small Texas town have given it: the Christm
Caleb John Spyksma is our first grandchild. For years we have been praying for him, that he will love Jesus and grow up to serve him.
Among other things, she had to get used to the traffic: “Taxis everywhere, constantly honking.
Nick, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be a summer intern in Austinville, Iowa, set apart to fulfill a contract promised beforehand t
Phonh Sinbondit and his family were living in Laos when communists took over the country in the late 1970s.