It was during my first year at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA, that I was spending a quiet Saturday afternoon in its library and discovered a book that attracted my attention. It dealt with missions to Muslims. The author was Dr. Samuel Zwemer; the tide, The Cross Above the Crescent. I had […]

Conscious of a “calling” to serve the Lord with our lives, it was understood from day one that we would be a team. We set out for Syria with that in mind; but it was five years before we settled down to our life’s work in Chicago of all places! If wives are to be […]

The Rev. Juan S. Boonstra, voice of the Spanish-language broadcast of the Christian Reformed Church for 26 years, has died at age 69. The Spanish broadcast ministry titled, “La Hora de la Reforma” (The Hour of Reformation) started in 1964 and Rev. Boonstra was its first minister until he retired in 1991. Although the broadcast […]