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Grace CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grace CRC began in 1949 as the Buckley Street Chapel, supported by First and Neland Ave. It was organized in 1962.

Names

Buckley Street Chapel, 1949-62
Grace, 1962-present

Location

100 Buckley Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (built 1949, addition 1978)

Pastors

Albert Veen, evangelist, 1949-62
Martin Toonstra, 1962-65
Peter Huiner, 1966-69
Paul W. Brink, 1968-75
Roger E. Van Harn, 1976-present
D. C. Shereow, 1982-83
J. Nash, 1984-85
V. Anderson, 1987-90
Roger E. Van Harn, 1976-present

Membership chart

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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