A nika Farhan, a Muslim from Bangladesh; and Katelyn Fuller, a Christian from California; opened their email last summer to discover that
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Stories from people, congregations and ministries of the CRCNA, reported by The Banner's news editor and a team of regular correspondents and Church Worldwide news from the Religion Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ Service. Send news tips to news@thebanner.org.
Several pairs of parents and teens from Fredericton (New Brunswick) Christian Reformed Church recently traveled together to New Orleans t
Jim Bode, professor of network services technology at State College of Florida, turned a recent sabbatical into three mission trips to sh
Two churches in California are putting wheels under the thrift store idea.
March 9, 1918 – November 14, 2009
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The story of how Rev. Wen-Yau Hsieh wound up pastoring a church in Iowa by way of Queens, N.Y., is an unexpected one.
For 10 students from Campus Chapel, the Christian Reformed campus ministry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spring break was a
While watching the 9 o’clock news last December, something he says he rarely does, Rev.
Overwhelmed by God’s providence—that’s how Carissa Elenbaas feels in the wake of the Chile earthquake, which she and tw
I feel like this is a calling.
November 5, 1917 – February 19, 2010
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Saugatuck (Mich.) Christian Reformed Church transformed itself into an art gallery recently, hosting an art show with a creation theme fo
Convicted by the searing images of devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti, high school senior Karl Bratt, a member of Racin
Synod 2006 said that baptized children are part of God’s family and should be invited to partake in the Lord’s Supper with th
Large tracts of land that Navajo and Zuni Christian Reformed churches had hoped would supply much-needed income are now being sold after
The Canadian Parliament recently strongly defeated a bill that would have legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide.
In April, 100 women gathered in Vancouver, British Columbia, for a pastors’ spouse conference aimed at female spouses.
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The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church is proposing an increase of 3 percent in ministry share for the 2010-11 fiscal yea
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Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to meetings of classis, a regional grouping of churches.
Mindful that the Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ was itself started by immigrants, the CRC should now advocate for immigration
A report coming to Synod 2010 recommends that when an abuse allegation is brought against a leader of a Christian Reformed church, pastor