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Beckwith Hills CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Beckwith Hills CRC, was organized in 1875 as Fourth Reformed. Along with several other RCA congregations in the region, it seceded and joined the CRC in 1882. (A small minority remained in the RCA, retaining their identity as Fourth Reformed.) Beckwith Hills was the fourth Grand Rapids CRC congregation.

Coldbrook was originally located at Taylor and Barnett NW, then moved to Barnett and Ionia NW in 1875. The congregation moved to Chelsea Road NE in 1963.

Locations

1140 Ionia NW at Barnett, Grand Rapids, MI (1875-1910, now Schaafsma Heating)
7 Barnett Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI (1910-63)
2100 Chelsea Road NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505 (built 1963)

Pastors

Lammert J. Hulst, 1876-1906
J. J. Hiemenga, 1907-13
Y. P. De Jong, 1913-17
L. Veltkamp, 1918-25
E. B. Peckelder, 1935-35
T. Yff, 1936-43
E. L. Haan, 1944-49
Richard R. De Ridder, 1949-53
R. Rienstra, 1954-69
O. W. Duistermars, 1970-74
J. Joldersma, 1976-87
L. Bryce Mensink, 1989-95
Edward J. Blankespoor, 1995-present

Creston, 1915
Ionia Avenue, 1920

Membership

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

Red line shows nonprofessing members as a percentage of total membership.

Red line shows five year growth rate. A five year growth rate between 10% and -10% is considered stable; greater than 10% indicates a growing congregation; one below -10% indicates a church in decline. This makes no allowance for daughter churches.

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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