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How the Church Helped Halt the Blood Diamond TradeWhen violence erupted in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s, missionaries Paul and Mary Kortenhoven didn’t take it very seriously at f
When your church joins together with other local churches for a prayer service, or if your congregation partners with another local churc
Rev. James Dekker recently represented the Christian Reformed Church at a human-rights tribunal in Colombia.
The Uniting Reformed Church in South Africa has asked the Christian Reformed Church and other Reformed churches worldwide to adopt the Be
When Lou Datillio went looking for a hunting-safety course for his son, Nick, he found a church home.
Prayer goes into every shawl knitted by members of Immanuel Christian Reformed Church in Hudsonville, Mich.
“Are you guys for real?
The junior high boys of First Christian Reformed Church in Toronto used their baking skills to raise money, hoping for $23 to buy a goat
Graafschap Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., one of the oldest churches in the denomination, now also houses the Graafschap Heritage Center.
For three decades Thanh Campbell presumed he was an orphan.
The cold, the mold, the rain, and cockroaches can all greet volunteers involved in rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
A winter storm Feb.
It was a foggy morning when an aircraft overshot the runway and crashed “outside the wire,” the safety perimeter of the milit
Louise Hulst (left) and Shirley Matheis were two of 275 people who attended the third annual Day of Encouragement held at Dordt College i
A class of students from Elim Christian School in Palos Heights, Ill., is learning new skills and brightening the lives of U.S.
Several Christian Reformed World Missions staff were evacuated from a West African country, after violent protests threatened their safet
Flags across Michigan flew at half-staff for the funeral of Brandon Stout, 23, an Army specialist in the Michigan National Guard’s
Driving a fire truck for seven days may seem like an odd way to take a road trip.
A rabbi, an imam, and a CRC chaplain recently came together at Hillside Community Christian Reformed Church in Calgary, Alberta, for a re
On my last visit to Europe I spent an unforgettable evening with a dozen or so relatives in Sexbierum, the Netherlands—a small vill
When I was a child our family faithfully worshiped at a local Christian Reformed church.
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Words of uncertainty spill from Peter’s lips: “I’m going out to fish” (John 21:3).