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

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.

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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