Doon PRC, IA
This article by Vi DeBoer chronicles the founding and early history of the Doon Protestant Reformed Church in Iowa, established in 1926 as a congregation separated from the Christian Reformed Churches. The narrative documents the congregation's pastoral leadership, including Rev. H.C. Hoeksema's tenure during the controversial conditional covenant debates of the 1949-1955 period, and provides valuable firsthand perspective on a rural PRC congregation's life and struggles during the Great Depression era.
Nestled quietly in the very northwest corner of the state of Iowa, which is in the north central part of the United States, is the small village of Doon. Not much to take note of by human standards, but home for 93 years to a small congregation of believers. The Doon Protestant Reformed Church was born out of the Christian Reformed Churches in the area in 1926. The Lord used the weak means of preaching by various Protesting Christian Reformed ministers to bring about the formation of the Doon...
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