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Mayfair CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mayfair CRC was organized in 1893 as Dennis Ave. CRC by members of Eastern Ave. It was the last Dutch-speaking Christian Reformed church plant in the city.

Locations

Fulton near Diamond SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (1893)
48 Dennis Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (1893-1955)
1740 Lyon St. NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (built 1955, addition 1996/7?)

Pastors

Edward Vander Vries, 1896-1903
J. B. Hoekstra, 1903-09
J. A. Kett, 1910-14
H. Danhof, 1914-18
P. Jonker Jr., 1919-22
W. Kuipers, 1923-27
J. L Heeres, 1927-32
H. J. Rikkers, 1933-36
J. Weidenaar, 1936-42
Dr. Lubbertus Oostendorp, 1942-52
Henry De Mots, 1954-69
M. R. Doornbos, 1969-74
Wilmer R. Witte, 1976-93
Peter Verhulst, 1991-present

Michigan Street Sunday School, 1932-37
Sunshine, 1971

Membership

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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