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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.

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.

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.