Faith Community CRC, Wyoming, MI

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Faith Community Christian Reformed Church

Wyoming, Michigan

Faith Community CRC was organized in 1919 as Wyoming Park CRC. Read A History of Faith Community Christian Reformed Church by John P. Battema, son of Faith Community's second pastor, for some personal memories from the congregation's early years.

Names

Wyoming Park, 1919-93
Faith Community, 1993-present

Locations

2733 Byron Center Ave. SW, Wyoming, MI 49509 (1919-93, built 1928, now Hahn-In CRC)
5250 Byron Center Ave. SW and 52nd Street, (built 1993)

Pastors

Edward B. Pekelder, 1921-25
John P. Battema, 1926-29
A. Van Dyken, 1930-39
J. F. Schuurman, 1940-44
J. Hoogland, 195-51
W. F. Vander Hoven, 1952-57
F. W. Van Houten, 1957-62
T. Wevers, 1964-71
Leonard C. Bossenbroek, 1971-84
R. A. Heerema, 1985-89
Kenneth L. Havert, 1990-present

Membership chart

Green (lower) line shows membership in families; blue (middle), professing members; red (top), total members; and magenta (thin), non-professing members. Note effect of relocation in 1993.

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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