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Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to classis, a regional grouping of churches.

Two West Michigan Christian high schools captured state championships this spring.

When the annual Missionary Union Tour arrives at New Hope Community Christian Reformed Church, it’s not just another potluck supper

Dean Broersma and Herman teVelde, members of Sunnyside (Wash.) Christian Reformed Church, are working to keep orphans in Zambia in their

As Saigon fell 31 years ago, 57 Vietnamese orphans were evacuated from their war-ravaged country to start new lives in Canada.

If you’re a kid growing up in the heart of Jersey City, N.J., you usually just get to watch the rich and famous sailing only blocks

Rev. Mark Stephenson has been appointed director of Disability Concerns for the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

Protesters stormed the annual meeting of Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) in Ottawa, forcing the Canadian Minister of Immigration and Ci

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper praised Denver’s First Christian Reformed Church as a model for his 10-year plan to end homelessness

Synod 2006 and Women

Sometimes when I’m sitting at my computer, my 3-year-old daughter, Mary, climbs onto my lap.

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Your July Banner came late so we could catch you up on the latest news from Synod 2006, the Christian Reformed Church’s annual lead

National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) has awarded Fred and Mary Visser its Award for Excellence.

To Georgetown Christian Reformed Church, Hudsonville, Mich., Rev. Mark Nelesen of Third CRC, Zeeland, Mich.

A new website specifically for Asian Christian Reformed churches is good news for Indonesian, Vietnamese, Laotian, Filipino, Hmong, and C

1926 – 2006

The Christian Reformed Church has an affiliation process, adopted in the mid-1980s, for congregations who wish to join the denomination.

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The Illuminator

by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

At that point in American cultural history when kids turned from swing sets to computers and from camping to video-game marathons, the C

Last summer I sat with some other North American visitors on rickety chairs under a mango tree in Uganda, East Africa.

Synod 2006 approved Today’s New International Version of the Bible (TNIV) for use in the Christian Reformed Church, but not withou

More people followed the deliberations of synod via the Internet this year than ever before.