Two members of Valley Christian Reformed Church in Binghamton, N.Y., were surprised to be in the national spotlight this spring.

About 40 people gathered for a 3-day conference focused on encouraging, strengthening and equipping campus ministers in the U.S. and Canada.

Following the publishing of newspaper articles describing a changed atmosphere at the Edmonton, Alta., Christian university, the institution responded to concerned church councils.

Restless Michigan State University students preparing for finals, find support and a hearty middle-of-the-night breakfast at River Terrace Christian Reformed Church.

For women and children in need of housing, Roseland Christian Ministries has become a source of shelter, recreation, and spiritual life, in the year since its shelter opened.

This congregation of more than 300 has been creating ‘family’ through intergenerational study for over a decade.

The 2018 conference featured the theme “Here,” with God’s promises in Isaiah 42, and included a five-scene walk-thru experience created by World Renew.

Rev. Peter Borgdorff, former executive director of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, died early Monday, May 21, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Meadowlands Fellowship CRC in Ancaster, Ont., hosted “Strong Communities, Safe Neighborhoods” to promote restoration after a series of acts of vandalism on its property and in the surrounding area.

Prisoners in Christ, a justice and prison ministry of Church of the Servant in Grand Rapids, Mich., held an event asking Christians and others to support work moving from a retributive culture to a restorative culture. 

Suggested additions of LGBTQ terms to the style guide used by publications of the Christian Reformed Church generated much discussion at the recent meeting of the CRC’s Council of Delegates.

More than half of church-planting pastors in the Christian Reformed church ply another trade while ministering. A Grand Rapids conference looked at that future.

Synod 2018 may pick up where Synod 2017 left off, when fault lines appeared over how the Christian Reformed Church carries out its mission to “do justice, show mercy, and walk humbly with God.” 

Forest City Community Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in London, Ont., is a recent example of a growing church spreading its ministry in multiple locations.

Two overtures (requests) are going to Synod 2018 asking that denominational staff be constrained from issuing statements on political issues on behalf of the Christian Reformed church. 

The recommended increase in ministry shares would be allocated to Congregational Ministries.

In the era of #MeToo, calls to the CRC’s Safe Church ministry office are getting increasingly frequent.

Eight members of Korean Church of Orange County spent 10 days in short-term mission in India.

Kraker was a big man with a big laugh, a wonderful sense of humor, and a love for adventure. He died April 9. 

The departments of nursing, social work, philosophy, and chaplaincy/theology collaborated on the conference held April 16.

The homebase for Hesed Community Church is just that—a home in a neglected neighborhood of Detroit.

An article about a full moon ceremony has been removed from Do Justice blog.

Near Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., a Korean ministry-sponsored retreat helped pastors discover Christian authors to explore in weekly book clubs.