A Shift in Leadership: Wishing Jill Ver Steeg Well in New Role

The RCA’s chief advancement officer and associate general secretary Jill Ver Steeg has accepted a new role and will conclude her work for the denomination on February 4. She will become president and CEO of Evergreen Commons, a wellness center for older adults in Holland, Michigan.

Ver Steeg joined RCA staff in 2015 as the coordinator for transformational equipping; she led the Transformed & Transforming team as chief ministry officer beginning in 2018 and became chief operating officer in 2019. In 2021, she shifted to chief advancement officer and associate general secretary. Prior to serving as denominational staff, Ver Steeg served as executive pastor of Meredith Drive Reformed Church in Des Moines, Iowa, and as a chaplain at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

“I truly am incredibly grateful for my time on staff,” Ver Steeg says. “A big part of my passion in being denominational staff was to serve the local church, coming alongside the local congregation as a trustworthy partner to listen to their story and to help encourage them as they discern their next faithful step. I love serving alongside a denominational staff who love Jesus and who love serving the local congregation—a thousand churches in a million ways, following Jesus.” Ver Steeg will maintain her ordination as a minister of Word and sacrament in the Reformed Church in America.

“Jill is a gifted and anointed leader,” says general secretary Eddy Alemán. “In her denominational roles, Jill’s leadership has advanced the missional impact of the Reformed Church in America for over six years. We are grateful for her empowerment of people, care for our staff team, and strategic, innovative, and collaborative leadership.”

Ver Steeg sees her upcoming role at Evergreen Commons as building on many gifts she used at the RCA: collaboration, relationships, trust, and inviting people into a larger vision of future hope. “Evergreen Commons is essentially a learning community, a group of people who are learning to live with authentic health and spiritual vitality,” she says. “They’re learning from and with one another. It’s a place where people have meaning, belonging, and purpose, and we reimagine what it means to have older adults at the very center of a community for the betterment of the community.”