CHURCH NEWS

Calls Extended:

To Rev. W. Suyker, of Unionville, Ontario, Canada, by the Rock Valley, Iowa, Congregation.

Calls Declined:

To the Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Congregation, by Rev. J. Van Haaren of Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

To the Sioux Center, Iowa, Congregation by Rev. W. Suyker, of Unionville, Ontario, Canada.

To the Scherpenisse, the Netherlands, Congregation, by Rev. W.C. Lamain of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

To the Clifton, New Jersey, Congregation, by Rev. A.W. Verhoef of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

To the Sunnyside, Washington, Congregation, by Rev. A.W. Verhoef of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Calls Accepted:

To the Rock Valley, Iowa, Congregation, by Rev. W. Suyker, of Unionville, Ontario, Canada.

CURATORIUM

Collections and gifts received for the Theological School of the United States and Canada for the first four months of 1975:

Friend in Michigan $ 10.00

Sioux Center Congregation 506.00

Friend in Michigan 20.00

Friend in British Columbia 20.00

Friend in Michigan 15.00

Kalamazoo Congregation 687.00

Friend in Michigan 150.00

Ancaster Congregation 106.01

Grand Rapids Congregation 1,007.33

Artesia Congregation 209.60

Vineland Congregation 326.23

Alberni Congregation 143.35

Clifton Congregation 550.00

Friend in Nebraska 200.00

Lethbridge Congregation 548.46

Total $ 4,498.98

Again we wish to express our hearty thanks for your generous financial support of our Theological School. May the Lord add His blessing and may there be many prayers for the anointing of His Spirit for both instructor and student.

Please mail all collections and gifts to the treasurer of the Curatorium: Mr. John Beeke

2815 Lowell St.

Kalamazoo, MI.

49001

YOUTH DAY-LETHBRIDGE ALBERTA JULY 5,1975

The Youthday Conference for Classis Far West will be held this year D.V. on Saturday, July 5 in the Church of the Lethbridge Congregation, commencing at 9:30 a.m.

All participating Congregations will be sent programs.

Topics will be chosen of interest and instruction for all young people. We are happy to see more interest in these youth gatherings every year.

Anyone wishing information or accomodation please contact the following address:

Miss. Nellie Grisnich

324 Dieppe Blvd.

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Telephone 1-403-328-4119.

YOUTH DAY-NORWICH ONTARIO JULY 5,1975

This year a Youth Day conference will be held in Norwich, Ontario, D.V. on Saturday, July 5, with the local pastor, the Rev. A.M. Den Boer as leader. The meeting will commence at 9:30 A.M. in the Church of the Norwich Congregation.

Those desiring additional information, or accomodations, should write or call the clerk at the following address:

J.A. Byl

R.R. #1

Salford, Ontario

Canada NOJ-IWO

Tel. No. 519/485-2393

We hope many of our young people will make an effort to attend these meetings. May the subjects that shall be discussed prove to be a blessing for our rising generation. Also in these matters the church has a calling. Keep that which is entrusted unto thee.

May the Lord grant especially unto the watchmen on Zion’s walls the grace to be faithful, to stand on guard for the truth which is after godliness, which does not allow “give and take”, not in spiritual life either.

The problems are many, and it is becoming more and more evident that the devil has but a short time. (Rev. 12:12) The world attracts on every side, and in general the desire to search and study those things that are necessary is decreasing. We notice that more and more in the catechism classes. We often look into the future with much fear.

May the Lord bless the meetings, and cause them to be a strong testimony against conformity to the world in its hairdress and apparel, which is dishonoring to the Lord, contrary to His ordinances, and injurious to spiritual life in the congregations. Let it plainly be seen in our walk and conversation that we are a separate people. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and when that fear of God is implanted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, it reveals itself in forsaking the world and following after righteousness.

May the Lord remember us and our children and grandchildren in His favor in Christ Jesus.

Editor

NOTICE TO CONSISTORIES

The address of the clerk of the Norwich, Ontario, Canada, Congregation has been changed and is now as follows:

J.A. Byl

R.R. #1

Salford, Ontario;

Canada NOJ-IWO

Tel. No. 519/485-2393

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

With appreciation we received the following gifts.

For our school in Grand Rapids, a collection from the Waupun, Wisconsin, congregation-$132.00.

From Hudsonville, Michigan, For the school in Grand Rapids, $20.00, for the Church in Grand Rapids, $20.00, and for missions, $5.00.

For the Denominational School Fund, $100.00.

May the Lord’s blessing rest upon these gifts.

Rev W.C. Lamain

WE ALL MUST DIE

We read in Job 14:1, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.” Also in Hebr. 9:27, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” We all must die. If we can say that we may die, we have received grace from above. Church officers, as ministers, elders, and deacons, also are subject to death.

During the first part of the year four friends who for a longer or shorter period have been church officers in our congregations have been taken away by the cold hand of death.

Mr. Arnold Pluim of Waupun, Wisconsin, died very suddenly at the age of 60. He had been deacon there for some years. On April 25 Mr. M. De Bat of St. Catharines, Ontario. was buried at the age of 74. He had served the congregation as elder for 23 years, ever since its organization. On May 15 the local pastor, Rev. A.W. Verhoef conducted the funeral of Mr. C. Kooiman, age 67, who, as Rev. Verhoef said, had served the congregation of Chilliwack, B.C., for 22 years as elder. On May 17 Mr. Tunis De Knecht was buried in Paterson, New Jersey. For many years he was elder in the English congregation of Haledon Ave. and later in Peoples Park. During the last years illness and weakness bound him to his home.

The Lord remember the surviving widows and children, sanctify the callings to their souls, and comfort them with the only comfort in life and death.

We have met and known all those brothers, some more personally, some more at meetings, but it is most important that the Lord knows us. 2 Tim. 2:19, “The Lord knoweth them that are His.”

We cannot be saved by our office, but only by a personal, saving faith wrought in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

Concerning those deceased brothers, the Lord has brought them to the place which He had determined for them in eternity. The one spoke more of those matters than the other, but what Christ once said to Nicodemus in John 3:3, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,” also applies to them.

And further, the need for ministers is great, but no less the need for elders and deacons who have in their hearts the fear of the Lord and spiritual life. It is especially necessary for the elders, who, as the Form for the Ordination of Elders and Deacons tells us, must rule the church. And what a great blessing it is for a minister when he has at his side men with grace and gifts, as Aaron and Hur who held the hands of Moses.

May the Lord remember our congregations, giving His Spirit in our hearts and in our midst, but also men who will fight for the truth, and for holiness of life.

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