News from SBCRC

Rev. Ron VanderGriend, an associate pastor of our church who works with missionaries in India, has offered to lead a group from a church along the Exodus route.  The dates have yet to be determined but there is a flier at church containing what will likely be the itinerary of the nine day trip.  One [...]

Click the link to see the newsletter from the de Vuysts: de Vuysts June 2010 prayer letter

Dear friends:
Greetings from Honduras! I had begun writing a newsletter with a story and pictures about one of our partners in Guatemala. But that is on a back burner now with some events in the last week, for which I request special prayers:
1) Tropical storm Agatha: Last Sunday in Honduras, rivers were cresting and [...]

Dear Friends,
Greetings from Yaounde. I, Ann, am back in Yaounde after a wonderful two weeks in the States. I went to Indiana to participate in the festivities surrounding my father’s retirement. He’s been a professor of Christian philosophy for over 50 years. I’m very proud of both of my parents and [...]

Leanne and Casper Geisterfer are a pair of missionaries we at SBCRC support. Here is an email that we recently received from Leanne.
Caspar finished teaching a course on “Preaching” at the Honduran Theological Community (CTH) Seminary to a class of 8 students. After some introductory sessions about process, they were required to preach three [...]

I had intended to write a series of four posts related to pastoral care.  I got two completed.  However it became clear that what was needed was something more formal, something which had the insights and approval of council.  There are two versions of “Pastoral Care at SBCRC,” a shorter and longer one.  This is [...]

This was published yesterday here:
Portland-based indie folk band Horse Feathers is one of those bands you really should know. They stopped in South Bend Friday to play a concert at Subkirke, the South Bend Christian Reformed Church’s concert venue, for a small but enthusiastic audience. They are currently on tour promoting their newest album, “Thistled [...]

According to the recent article in the Elkhart Truth,
Mark Roeda, pastor of SBCRC, and David Banga, director of worship and arts at the church and artistic director of Subkirke, conceived the idea of the venue last summer [in response to discussions revolving around] where the church was going in [...]

On the surface, these are two very different bands.  Nomo is an afro-beat jazz outfit composed of over a half-dozen members from the east side of Michigan.  Horse Feathers is a folk trio out of Portland.  One’s funky.  The other is hauntingly beautiful.  One thing they have in common is critical acclaim (both have received [...]

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