Profile of Harderwyk Christian Reformed Church

Profile of Harderwyk Christian Reformed Church

by Krista Petty (FASTEN, 2007)

Resource Type: Instructional profile.

It describes how Harderwyk developed a greater focus on external community ministry following a shift in church leadership. It offers several lessons learned about how to establish an affiliated, but legally separate, nonprofit organization to conduct community ministry without the church losing its own commitment, focus, and involvement in such ministry.

Audience: Leaders of suburban churches desiring significant community impact among the poor; Leaders of multi-congregational churches; Church leaders wanting to learn from models of how other congregations moved from an internal to external focus; particularly, what changes had to occur within the church to make that shift possible