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Everglade Reformed Church

Grand Rapids, Michigan

1951-1974

Everglade Reformed was organized in 1951 and merged with Oakdale Park in 1974 to form New Life Reformed.

Location

940 Everglade Dr. SE, built 1955, now New Life Reformed

Pastors

Norwood K. Reck, 1952-57
Darrell Franken, 1959-62
Douglas W. Vander Hey, 1963-68
Bernard D. Hakken, 1969-74

Membership

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

Red line (top) shows nonprofessing members as a percentage of total membership (inactive members exluded), and green (lower), inactive members as 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: 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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