Historical Profile: Plainfield CRC

Rockford, Michigan

Plainfield CRC was organized in 1906. Plainfield merged with Arcadia to form Arcadia-Plainfield CRC in 1986, reorganizing as Blythefield (Rockford, MI) in 1989.

Locations

4435 Cannonsburg Road NE, Plainfield, MI (1911-64)

6350 Kuttshill Dr. NE, Rockford, MI 49341 (built 1964, now Blythefield CRC)

Pastors

Henry J. Mulder, 1908-10
H. Beute, 1912-16
J. R. Van Dyke, 1921-25
H. S. Koning, 1926-39
T. Van Eerden, 1939-42
J. Ibershoff, 1942-49
R. Leetsma, 1951-54
P.E. Bakker, 1954-58
D. Mellema, 1959-62
E. J. Tamminga, 1963-66
M. Bolt, 1867-70
J. M. Evenhouse, 1971-77
Jacob P. Boonstra, 1977-86

Belding, 1976

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.

For more membership data, click here. View map showing Cannonsburg Road or Kuttshill Drive locations, or page showing both maps.

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