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Historical Profile: Mayfair CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mayfair CRC was organized in 1893 as Dennis Ave. CRC by members of Eastern Ave. It was the last Dutch-speaking Christian Reformed church plant in the city.

Names

Dennis Avenue, 1893-1955
Mayfair, 1955-present

Locations

Fulton near Diamond SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (1893)
48 Dennis Avenue SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (1893-1955)
1740 Lyon Street NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (built 1955, addition 1996/7?)

Interactive Google map showing church locations.

Pastors

Edward Vander Vries, 1896-1903
J. B. Hoekstra, 1903-09
J. A. Kett, 1910-14
H. Danhof, 1914-18
P. Jonker Jr., 1919-22
W. Kuipers, 1923-27
J. L Heeres, 1927-32
H. J. Rikkers, 1933-36
J. Weidenaar, 1936-42
Dr. Lubbertus Oostendorp, 1942-52
Henry De Mots, 1954-69
M. R. Doornbos, 1969-74
Wilmer R. Witte, 1976-93
Peter Verhulst, 1991-present

Michigan Street Sunday School, 1932-37
Sunshine, 1971

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 Fulton Street, Dennis Avenue, and Lyon Street locations, or page showing all three maps.

Go to Grand Rapids geographic index or chronological index.

Visit the Mayfair CRC website.

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