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Oakdale Park CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Oakdale CRC, was organized in 1890 under the sponsorship of Eastern Ave. Oakdale was the eighth Grand Rapids CRC congregation.

Locations

961 Hancock SE, Grand Rapids, MI (1891-1963, new building 1905)
1313 East Butler Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (built 1963)

Pastors

G. A. De Haan, 1892-95
Foppe M. Ten Hoor, 1896-1900
H. M Vander Ploeg, 1901-03
L. Berkhof, 1904-06
Y. P. De Jong, 1907-11
William P. Van Wyk, 1911-22
H. Kuiper, 1923-25
J. M. Vande Kieft, 1925-32
J. Zeeuw, 1932-35
W. Hendricksen, 1935-42
J. Griffioen, 1943-48
P. Y. De Jong, 1948-52
J. H. Piersma, 1953-56
J. Guichelaar, 1956-64
C. Bolt, 1966-71
W. Heynen, 1971-73
H. G. Vanden Einde, 1974-79
William Vanden Bosch, 1979-present
D. Deppe, 1984-85
Rayfield Benton Jr., 1996

Neland Ave., 1915, cosponsored with Sherman Street
Madison Square, 1970, cosponsored with Fuller Ave.
Oakdale Neighbors, 1996

Membership

Green (lower) line shows membership in families; blue (middle), professing members; red (top), total members; and magenta (thin), non-professing members. Note effect of launching neighboring Boston Square CRC in 1942.

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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