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General Synod Recognizes Missional Impact Partner Churches Blog Post

…City, MI* Faith Reformed Church, Zeeland, MI* Fellowship Reformed Church, Holland, MI** Fifth Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI* First Reformed Church, Aplington, IA* First Reformed Church, Baldwin, WI* First Reformed Church, Grandville, MI** First Reformed Church, Harrison, SD** First Reformed Church, Ireton, IA First Reformed Church, Melvin, IA* First Reformed Church, Orange City, IA** First Reformed Church, Pella, IA** First…

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RCA launches Faithward.org Blog Post

The new site helps Christians expand their imagination, take action, and deepen their love for Jesus. Head to Faithward.org, and you’ll find an array of articles featuring innovative church ministries, interviews with pastors and lay leaders, and essays that explore faith. This new site, as hinted at in its name, is all about moving faith forward. How Faithward.org was born…

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Cultivate Announces 2019 Volunteer Sites Blog Post

Cultivate has announced its 2019 volunteer sites, including a new site in Chicago. Cultivate has announced its 2019 volunteer sites, including a new site in Chicago. Young adults are also able to serve at returning sites, which include Jamaica and Nebraska for summer sites; Nicaragua, South Africa, United Kingdom, and New York City for year-long sites; and Romania, Nebraska, California,…

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What I Wish My Parents Knew Blog Post

…Wish events since that first one, held at various high schools throughout the district. As a relatively new church plant with a small congregation, Westview Church has been ambitious in taking on this project. However, John Alwood, executive director of missional ministry for California Classis, says church leaders in his classis love to encourage creative risks in ministry—and he’s not…

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My Voice: To Renew the City, See People’s Gifts Blog Post

…I try instead to give God the glory. I am thankful that this is the way God has called me to give witness to the coming of his kingdom and the restoration of all things. Jaunine Hackmon is a member of Pillar Church, a dual-affiliation church of the RCA and the Christian Reformed Church in North America in Holland, Michigan….

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A Culture of Church Planting Blog Post

…for generations The Living Well is the newest church plant in a lineage of growth. Its parent church, The Bridge, was planted eight years ago by Centerpoint Church (RCA) in Kalamazoo. With each church it plants, Centerpoint is committed to multiplying into new generations of church communities. Over the course of nearly 15 years, Centerpoint Church has been a part…

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The Slow Work of Sowing and Reaping Blog Post

By teaching youth to farm, bake, and sell their wares, New City Neighbors equips them to change Grand Rapids. Avrey Smith is 16, and bakery director at New City Neighbors. For seven weeks this summer, he woke up at 7:10 a.m. to oversee a small, hot commercial kitchen and the ten middle school students baking in it. New City Neighbors…

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RCA International Church Planting Update Blog Post

In accordance with General Synod 2022 recommendation GM 22-2: For General Synod to instruct the leadership of Global Mission and Church Multiplication to communicate to all RCA classes/ congregations in 2022 an update and explanation regarding current RCA initiatives in “International Church Planting.” (ADOPTED) The Church Multiplication team, in collaboration with Global Mission, offers this update regarding international church planting…

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Synod Recognizes 54 Missional Impact Partner Churches Blog Post

…Reformed Church, Holland, MI First Reformed Church, Melvin, IA First Reformed Church, Orange City, IA* First Reformed Church, Pella, IA* First Reformed Church, Rock Rapids, IA First Reformed Church, Sheldon, IA First Reformed Church, Sibley, IA First Reformed Church, Sioux Center, IA* First Reformed Church, Sully, IA First Reformed Church, Zeeland, MI Hamlin Reformed Church, Castlewood, SD Heartland Reformed Church,…

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Low-maintenance Mission Blog Post

…neighborhood now.” Those are marked changes for four blocks of Peck Street in Compton, California, where Escobar copastors City Church. City Church of Compton launched in 2010, a church plant of Emmanuel Reformed Church in nearby Paramount, California. Compton was plagued by poverty and notorious for gang violence. Planters Pat and Julie Dirkse moved into the city, along with several…