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Seventh Reformed Church

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Seventh Reformed was organized in 1890 as a daughter church of Fourth.

Seventh was released from the RCA in March 1995 and is now an independent Reformed church.

Locations

838 Leonard NW near Jennette, 1892-1952
950 Leonard NW, 1951-present

Pastors

John Lamar, 1891-93
Teunis W. Muilenberg, 1894-98
James F. Zwemer, 1898-1900
Marinus E. Broekstra, 1900-05
Frederick Lubbers, 1906-10
John F. Heemstra, 1910-13
Albert W. De Jonge, 1914-18
A. J. Van Lummel, 1919-23
Gradus Vander Linden, 1923-28
John Steunenberg, 1928-31
John Minnema, 1932-41
William C. De Jong, 1942-48
Morris G. Folkert, 1949-57
Gordon H. Girod, 1958-80
Jerome M. Julien, assistant, 1962-64, transfered to CRC 1963
Arthur L. Scheid, assistant, 1964-67
Charles W. Krahe, 1980-90
Morris Folkert, 1980
Dr. John R. de Witt, 1993-present

Trinity, 1908

Membership

Heavy lines: green (lower) shows membership in families; blue (middle), professing members; red (top), total members. Thin lines: magenta (middle), non-professing members; orange (lower), inactive members; black (top), average worship attendance.

Red line (middle) shows nonprofessing members as a percentage of total membership (inactive members exluded); green (lower), inactive members as percentage of total membership; and blue (higher) average worship attendance 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: Acts of Synod of the Reformed Church in America. 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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