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Historical Profile: 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.

Names

Holland Reformed, 1889-95
Sixth Reformed, 1895-1924
Oakdale Park, 1924-1974

Location

1024 Adams SE near Kalamazoo, 1889-1974

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.

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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