News From Our Churches

In a special congregational meeting of Feb. 24 First Church of Grand Rapids chose to call Rev. J.A. Heys, of Holland, Mich., to be Missionary to Jamaica. This is a First for our denomination -- a foreign missionary elect! Should Rev. Heys be constrained to accept this call, it will cripple our home front with another vacant church; but this contingency, too, was taken into account by our Synod which appointed a calling church to carry out their decision to place a man in the Jamaican field....