Faith PRC, Jenison, MI
This article documents the founding and early development of Faith Protestant Reformed Church in Jenison, Michigan, established in February 1973 to serve the growing Grandville-Jenison area. It provides historical details about the organizational process, leadership, initial worship arrangements, property acquisition, and building plans, offering a valuable record of domestic church planting within the Protestant Reformed tradition.
Faith Protestant Reformed Church was organized on February 22, 1973. For several years before this date there had been talk of the rising need for a new church in the Grandville- Jenison area. Hope PRC was crowded, Hudsonville PRC was crowded and using its basement for worship services, and more and more families were moving to the area. Three men, Dale Mensch, William Huber, and Irvan Velthouse, approached the consistories of Hope and Hudsonville requesting permission to canvas the members of...
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