–Past History– The Northern California Chapter, I believe, was the first chapter to be organized in 1960. Dr. Gilbert Den Dulk, who was then a board member of the national organization, encouraged the forming of local chapters. At an organizational meeting six men signed up as charter members: Rev. Jacob Weersing, Rev. John DeJong, Dr. […]
Within recent memory the ecclesiastical drums were being beaten for “youth services.” If you wanted to be “right on,” “in the spirit of our times,” that was the “in” thing to do! Now not near so loudly but quite perceptively another trend is developing among us, namely, the introduction of “Children’s Church Services.” Oh yes, we […]
Bert Van Dyken is a member of the Immanuel Christian Reformed Church of Ripon, California. He has served on the board of the Stockton Rescue Mission for twenty-eight years and has brought a gospel message there once a month for twenty-five years. Report 44, to which Mr. Van Dyken refers, is the report adopted at […]