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Historical Profile: Gold Avenue CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gold Avenue was begun in 1929 as the West Fulton Street Gospel Mission. It has not yet organized.

Locations

632 West Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (1930-35)
620 West Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (1935-40)
11 Gold Avenue SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (1940-89)
49 Gold Avenue NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (1989-present, built 1883 and remodeled 1953 as Second Baptist)

Pastors

John Vander Water, 1929-43
Andrew Vander Veer, evangelist, 1944-51
Elias Dykstra, evangelist, 1951-64
Peter Doot, evangelist, 1965-74
Michael D. Knierim, evangelist, 1975-86
William M. Ridley, evangelist, 1983-91
Robert L. Offringa, 1992-present

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 map showing 632 West Fulton, 620 West Fulton, 11 Gold Avenue, or 49 Gold Avenue location, or page showing all four maps.

Go to Grand Rapids geographic index or chronological index.

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