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Westview CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Westview CRC was organized in 1893 as Broadway Ave. CRC by members of Alpine Ave. Broadway Ave. was the second English-speaking CRC in Grand Rapids. The church relocated from Leonard and Broadway (just west of the Grand River) in 1962.

Names

Broadway Avenue, 1894-1962
Westview, 1962-present

Locations

Scribner Ave. Baptist Church, 1236 Scribner NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (1893-94)
1142 Broadway NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (1894-1962)
2929 Leonard NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (built 1962)

Pastors

G. D. De Mott, 1895-99
M. J. Bosma, 1900-07
J. W. Brink, 1909-12
E. Tanis, 1912-19
Henry J. Kuiper, 1919-29
John De Haan Jr., 1929-45
T. Van Eerden, 1946-51
G. J. Rozenboom, 1953-62
P. L. Vermaire, 1963-73
W. F. Vander Hoven, 1974-82
Charles S. Steenstra, 19983-95
Roger B. Groenboom, 1994-present
Ronald G. Baker, 1997-present

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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