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Oakdale Park Reformed Church

Grand Rapids, Michigan

1889-1974

Oakdale Park Reformed was organized as Sixth Reformed in 1889 as a daughter church of Third.

Oakdale Park merged with Everglade to form New Life in 1974.

Pastors

John M. Lumkes, 1890-93
William Pool, 1893-97
Peter De Pree, 1896-1903
John De Haan, 1904-10
Harm Dykhuizen, 1910-11
William J. Duiker, 1912-17
Klaas J. Dykema, 1917-20
Gerrit De Motts, 1921-23
Harri Zegerius, 1943-50
Lawrence J. borst, 1951-66
Henry J. Boekhoven, 1968-76

Zion (later Garfield Park), 1917

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.

Red line (upper) 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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