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Seymour CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Seymour CRC, organized in 1939, began as Hazen Street Mission, an outreach of Burton Heights CRC.

Names

Hazen Street Mission, 1934-38
Seymour, 1939-present

Locations

1144 Hazen St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (1934-41)
840 Alger St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507 (built 1941, addition 19__)

Pastors

Richard J. Frens, 1940-53
Jacob Hasper, 1953-62
John A. De Kruyter, 1964-75
Henry Admiraal, 1973-92
H. Guikema, 1985-89
C. R. Cornelisse, 1989-91
Alan A. Arkema, 1991-94
Gerald L. Zandstra, 1993-present
L. Bryce Mensink, 1995-98

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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