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Wilma Stienstra and Mia Lakmaker were recently reunited after being separated for 63 years.

Every tenth week Bradenton (Fla.) Christian Reformed Church fills its Family Life Center with cots and pillows.

The New Holland (S.D.) Christian Reformed Church celebrated its 125th anniversary earlier this year.

Tragedy struck the small community of Alger, Wash., in September when a man randomly shot and killed six people, including a deputy sheri

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered firsthand advice in a private meeting with Diana Worsley, 11.

This past summer 90 teens and counselors from Korean Christian Reformed churches in southern California and Nevada met at Camp Kainos 200

While the rest of the world watched the Beijing Olympics, Duncan (B.C.) Christian Reformed Church helped its community host games of loca

Carlee Hoffman, 22, earned a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing as a member of the U.S.

Melanie Kok, 24, earned a bronze medal in rowing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  Kok, a member of Trinity Christian Reformed Church i

On a sunny Saturday in September, members of 10 southern California Korean Christian Reformed churches gathered in Cerritos, Calif., for

When Hurricane Ike slammed into Haiti on Sept.

For Paul Buth, 54, the Sea to Sea tour provided opportunities to serve as well as cycle.

• Cycling days:    54

• Distance:    3,881 miles/ 6,245 km

A woman was at work when she received a phone call that her small daughter was very sick with a fever.

“In short, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, as we know it, is dying.” Rev. Sam Hamstra Jr.

Alyssa told me recently that what attracted her to our church was the sense that people are “alive and excited” about reachin

I can still hear the gentle waves under my feet.

A few years ago I had the honor of receiving an unusual call from God.

One of the most remarkable encounters in the gospels takes place between Jesus and the Canaanite woman who asks him to heal her demon-pos

Have you fed any elephants lately? Fixed the broken wing of a bird? Given a bat a home or welcomed a wolf?

I wonder

if you ever missed it,

the woodwork, I mean.  

Healing and pronouncing parables

As a child I loved to create things. That’s why I pursued a visual arts degree in college.

Relationships

Q It seems that once she became a teen, my daughter stopped sharing what&rs