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Burton Heights CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Burton Heights CRC was organized in 1905 by members of LaGrave Ave. It was the third English-language Christian Reformed congregation in Grand Rapids.

Locations

2106 Horton Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (1905-22)

1970 Jefferson Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (built 1922)

Pastors

William Bode, 1906-10
K. Popen, 1911-13
H. Beets, 1915-20
Henry J. Mulder, 1921-29
E. J. Masselink, 1929-40
G. Stob, 1940-43
H. J. Evenhouse, 1944-51
Leonard Greenway, 1952-57
Arnold Brink, 1958-78
Roger S. Greenway, 1978-82
Douglas M. MacLeod, 1985-93
Robert D. Bolt, 1996-present

Griggs Street, 1944-75 (now Harvest Orthodox Presbyterian Church)
Burton Heights Mission, 1945-50
Seymour, 1939
Faith, Hope, Love, 1987-95

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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