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Sherman Street CRC

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Sherman Street CRC was organized in 1907 as an English-language daughter church of Eastern Avenue.

Location

1000 Sherman Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506 (built 1908)

Pastors

John L. Van Tielen, 1908-11
J. J. Weersing, 1912-16
R. B. Kuiper, 1917-23
H. Schultze, 1924-26
M. Van Dyke, 1927-31
W. Van Peursem, 1932-40
G. Goris, 1941-44
L. Veltkamp, 1946-49
F. W. Van Houten, 1950-53
John A. Mulder, 1956-67
M. Toonstra, 1961-62
I. J. Apol, 1967-71
W. L. De Jong, 1972-79
Harold E. Botts, 1980-87
Mark D. Vermaire, 1984-present

Neland Avenue, 1915, cosponsored with Oakdale Park
Sixth Street, 1940-50
Calvin, 1946, cosponsored with Neland Ave. and Fuller Ave.
Unity Chapel, 1961-63
Ionia, 1963-84, cosponsored with Neland Ave.

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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