Alive, ’85

Something "big" happened in the Grand Rapids area late last summer, something "big" and something "sad." It was an evangelistic crusade called, "Alive, '85." Christianity Today in its November 8, 1985 issue reports: "Grand Rapids, Michigan, is no modern day Sodom or Gomorrah. The city of 185,000 is the home of such highly respected evangelical institutions as Calvin College, Calvin Theological Seminary, and Zondervan Publishing Company, a major evangelical publisher. "A haven for Reformed...