Historical Profile: First CRC

Byron Center, Michigan

First Byron Center was organized in 1902. Other Christian Reformed churches in Byron Center are Second (1953), Heritage (1970), Friendship (1987), and Pathway Ministries (emerging).

Location

2450 85th Street SW, Byron Center, MI 49315

Pastors

F. J. Drost, 1905-10
A. J. Rus, 1910-13
J. J. Holwerda, 1914-19
H. Guikema, 1921-20
A. J. Rus, 1930-51
W. Hendriksen, 1952-61
H. De Wolf, 1961-77
R. J. Noorman, 1977-84
Thomas C. Vanden Heuvel, 1985-1996

Daughter congregations

Ideal Park, 1961, cosponosored with First Cutlerville

Membership

Green (lower) line shows membership in families; blue (middle), professing members; red (top), total members; and magenta (thin), non-professing members.

Source: Yearbooks of the Christian Reformed Church. Dates are year prior to publication date since data is gathered at the end of one year and published in the next.

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