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Historical Profile: Grandville Avenue CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

1891-1994

Grandville Ave. CRC was organized in 1891 by members of Franklin Street. Grandville Ave. was the ninth CRC congregation in Grand Rapids.

Grandville Ave. merged with Bethel in 1994 to form Roosevelt Park Community Church.

Locations

1537 Grandville Avenue SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49509 (1891-1950, remodeled 1915)
811 Chicago Drive SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49509 (built 1951, now Roosevelt Park Community Church)

Interactive Google map showing church locations.

Pastors

William Greve, 1893-96
E. R. Haan, 1896-98
J. W. Brink, 1900-04
J. Timmerman, 1905-08
E. Breen, 1909-14
R. L. Haan, 1914-16
Dr. Ymen P. De Jong, 1917-45
M. Monsma, 1943-53
M. Vander Zwaag, 1953-59
J. H. Piersma, 1960-64
E. H. Palmer, 1964-68
J. D. Hellinge, 1968-72
A. E. Pontier, 1973-81
R. Praamsma, 1982-90
P. Wayne Townsend, 1991-93

Bethel, 1912-1994, cosponsored with Franklin Street
Ivanrest, 1964

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 maps of Grandville Avenue and Chicago Drive locations, or page showing both maps.

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