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Historical Profile: Bethel CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

1913-1994

Bethel CRC was organized in 1913 as an English-language daughter church of Grandville Avenue and Franklin Street. Bethel was located directly between the two churches in a heavily Dutch Reformed neighborhood.

Bethel and Grandville Avenue merged in 1994 to form Roosevelt Park Community Church.

Location

728 Shamrock SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49509 (built 1914-17)

Pastors

Gerrit Hoeksema, 1914-26
Garret Hofmeyer, 1926-45
R. L. Veenstra, 1946-51
T. Yff, 1952-56
Leonard Greenway, 1957-63
W. D. Buursma, 1963-73
N. R. Prins, 1974-79
R. B. Lanning, 1982-87
Rodger J. Buining, 1988-93

Bethel Mission, 1920-56
Rogers Heights, 1958
Belding, 1976

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.

For more membership data, click here. View a map showing the church location.

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