Historical Profile: Bethany United Reformed Church

Wyoming, Michigan

Bethany was organized as Beverly Christian Reformed Church in 1953. The bulk of the congregation seceded from the CRC in 1992, although a small minority continued as Beverly CRC. The church adopted the name Beverly Christian Reformed Church (Independent), later changing to Beverly United Reformed Church after joining the new denomination, and even later adopting the name Bethany.

Locations

1854 Porter SW, Wyoming, MI 49509 (1953-57, later Southwest PRC)

2019 Porter SW, Wyoming, MI 49509 (built 1957)

Pastors

R. Wezeman, 1954-61
E. J. Knott, 1961-71
J. W. Uitvlugt, 1971-81
H. Schuringa, 1982-85
A. Besteman, 1986-

Membership chart

(data from Beverly CRC)

Green (lower) line shows membership in families; blue (middle), professing members; red (top), total members; and magenta (thin), non-professing members.

Red line shows nonprofessing members as a 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: Yearbooks of the Christian Reformed Church. 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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Go to Wyoming United Reformed index.

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