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Upcoming Events:

CRC Home Missions and your Great Lakes team are offering the following events as we seek to resource the starting and strengthening of churches in our region.

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Great Lakes Coaching Group

November 21
December 19

RAVAH- for Church Planters

November 9

Coffee Break Small Group Training

Thursday, December 1, 9 - 1:30 pm. Hosted by Millwood CRC Kalamazoo

The Deeper Journey
Sacred Rhythms for the Soul



The Deeper Journey series of retreats began October 2, 2016. If you would still like to join the second retreat in January, please register today. The next Deeper Journey series of retreats will begin in 2018.

More information and Registration Here

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We are also cooperating with ministry partners who are offering events and resources that may be helpful to you and your ministry.

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Celebration Fellowship is celebrating a milestone in their journey to bring the good news of salvation in Christ to the men and women housed in Michigan prisons. This service will formally install elders and the pastor. This will be the final step in becoming an organized Christian Reformed Church. 

Sunday, November 13, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm
Church of the Servant 3835 Burton SE Grand Rapids

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Inspire 2017 will be held from August 3-5, 2017 in Detroit, and will gather people from around the denomination who are engaged in ministry in the Christian Reformed Church for three days of practical workshops, speakers, worship, and conversation.

Author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Where You Are, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 60 weeks, Ann Voskamp will be a keynote speaker for the Christian Reformed Church’s Inspire 2017

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Safe Church Conference 2016
 

A Conversation: A Church Response to Interpersonal Violence

Ruth Everhart and Ruth Tucker

Friday, Nov. 4 2016; 7:00-9:00pm; Chapel at Calvin College

Building a Social Movement to End Child Sexual Abuse: The Role of Faith Communities

Linda Crockett: Founder and Director of Education and Consultation

Saturday, Nov. 5 2016; 8:30-10:30am; Chapel at Calvin College

Register Here


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The movement of the gospel happens in the ordinary, everyday lives of Jesus followers.

by Amy Schenkel

Piece of silk given by the Empress of China, in acknowledgment of the copy of the New Testament presented her by over 10,000 Christian women. 

The words were carefully written on a yellowing slip of paper, lying in the middle of the guest-room bed amidst a slew of random estate sale items.  Pinned to the paper was a fading piece of pink silk, the size of a bookmark. 

My husband and I had stopped by this particular estate sale because we were intrigued to see the inside of the brick house on the hill after passing it many times on our neighborhood walks. The house itself was probably at the height of grandeur in its day, having been the home of Henry and Margaret Davis of the Stow & Davis Furniture company.  But it was this small piece of silk, and the penned words, that caught my attention.

I felt a little foolish forking over five dollars for this scrap of paper and cloth.  I’m sure that if I hadn’t bought it, the estate sale company would have swept it into the trash at the end of the sale and this glimpse into the movement of the gospel would be forgotten. Read More>>


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(left to right) Erin Drews, Peter Schuett, Matthew Koster, Daniel Jones and Austin Young
Photo by Chris Meehan

The October Great Lakes Coaching Group meeting focused on the topic of Millennials in the church. See the article Listening to the Faith of Millennials Here.

The importance of living out an authentic faith, one that is rich and full and not tarnished by false claims and advertising slogans, was a theme that the young people spoke about during the discussion held at the Grand Rapids, Mich., office of the CRC.
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Home Missions works to bring you stories of transformation from all the places we work
in the US and Canada. Here is the most recent video we've put together for you.



new mission agency: What's happening?

The Christian Reformed Church in North America has launched a search for a person to serve as the executive director for the new agency being formed by the unification of Christian Reformed Home Missionsand Christian Reformed World Missions.

In opening the search for the director, the CRCNA’s Board of Trustees (BOT) in late September approved a job description and asked that an announcement be posted about the position. In addition, a website detailing qualifications for the job is available at crcna.org/NMAdirector.

The BOT also set criteria for a search committee for the new director. At the same time, it determined that in 2019 it will review whether the model of one director is sufficient to cover the binational and international needs of the new agency.

“We are moving ahead very quickly, and things are starting to come together,” said Colin Watson, Sr., the CRCNA’s director of ministries and administration. Read More>>

Prayer Focus

by Mary Sterenberg

“How do we get our whole church to pray?” Has been a question posed to me recently by a pastor, a church prayer team, and a prayer leader in the region.  These people are praying people with a heart to see everyone engaged in this wonderful ministry.  In these situations I have encouraged them in praising God for the healthy prayer teams they already have.  This is the starting point.  Get your prayer people engaged in praying for the others in your church who have not yet become actively engaged in prayer ministry, and watch what God will do.
 
The empowerment Institute has some wonderful resources to help the church grow in prayer.  Visit www.empowermentinstitute.org to download free booklets.  One of these is a “How To” Tool for Igniting a Prayer Movement in your Church and Region.”  The Empowerment Institute (EI) has identified categories in the typical US congregation, based on their experience.
This information is helpful to encourage pastors, prayer leaders and prayer teams, because all of us face the frustrations of calling amazing prayer meetings with small attendance.  Why aren’t the others coming?  Perhaps the EI can shed some light on this.   Read More>>

 
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