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Central Reformed Church

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Central Reformed was formed by the merger of First and Second Reformed in 1918.

Locations

164 Fountain NE, 1918-Feb. 10, 1953 - destroyed by fire

10 College Ave. NE, 1956-present

Pastors

John A. Dykstra, 1918-54
Cornelius Vander Naald, education, 1935-40
Charles T. Botkin, assistant, 1951-52
Maurice Marcus, 1952-59
Herbert S. Van Wyk, education, 1956-59
Stanley G. Short, education, 1959-61
Marion de Velder, 1959-61
Frederick H. Olert, 1962-70
Marlin A. Vander Wilt, associate, 1963-68
Donald W. Hoffman, assistant, 1969-73
Dr. Herman J. Ridder, executive/preaching, 1971-83
George Brown Jr., education, 1973-88
Harold A. Colenbrander, part-time, 1982-90
Roger Shoup, 1984-87
Timothy S. Dieffenbach, youth, 1986-??
Dr. Robert W. Bedingfield Sr., senior, 1988-96
Lisa Hansen-Tice, education, 1989-??
Daniel Meeter, 1996-99
Dr. Louis Lotz, 2003-present
Dr. Carl Schroeder, seniors

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 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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