2017 - Community-Wide Hymn Festival (Oct. 1, 2017, 7:00 pm)
Location: Jack H. Miller Center for the Performing Arts, Hope College
Theme: Hymnody — The Voice of Christian Unity
Hymn Fest Leaders: Robert J. Batastini, Narrator; Peter Kurdziel, DMA, Organist
Approximately 450 participants
View the festival program
Theme: Hymnody — The Voice of Christian Unity
Hymn Fest Leaders: Robert J. Batastini, Narrator; Peter Kurdziel, DMA, Organist
Approximately 450 participants
View the festival program
2017 - Lecture Series I (Oct. 8, 2017, 7:00 pm)
Location: Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church
Speaker: Eduardo J. Ecceverria, Ph.D. (Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit)
Presentation: "Is the Catholic Counter-Reformation Over?"
Approximately 150 participants
Speaker: Eduardo J. Ecceverria, Ph.D. (Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit)
Presentation: "Is the Catholic Counter-Reformation Over?"
Approximately 150 participants
52017 - Lecture Series II (Oct. 15, 2017, 7:00 pm)
Location: Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church
Speaker: Mark Noll, Ph.D. (Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)
Presentation: "Reformation as Blessing and Bane"
Approximately 150 participants
Speaker: Mark Noll, Ph.D. (Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)
Presentation: "Reformation as Blessing and Bane"
Approximately 150 participants
2017 - Lecture Series III (Oct. 22, 2017, 7:00 pm)
Location: Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church
Speaker: Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S., Ph.D., S.T.D. (Director, Institute for Liturgical Ministry, Dayton, Ohio)
Presentation: "Being and Doing as One Body: Perspectives on Catholic and Reformed Worship"
Approximately 110 participants
Speaker: Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S., Ph.D., S.T.D. (Director, Institute for Liturgical Ministry, Dayton, Ohio)
Presentation: "Being and Doing as One Body: Perspectives on Catholic and Reformed Worship"
Approximately 110 participants
2017 - Community-Wide Worship Service (Oct. 29, 2017, 5:00 pm)
Location: Christ Memorial Church
Worship Leader: Pastor Marvin Hofman (Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church); Gospel Reader: Father Charles D. Brown (St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church); Preacher: Rev. Dr. John Witvliet (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Calvin College)
Music Director: Robert J. Batastini; Organist: Rhonda Sider Edgington (Hope Church)
Approximately 900 participants, including 92 voices of the Holland Ecumenical Choir and the De Sales Brass
View a video of this service at https://vimeo.com/240748411
View the worship folder
Worship Leader: Pastor Marvin Hofman (Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church); Gospel Reader: Father Charles D. Brown (St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church); Preacher: Rev. Dr. John Witvliet (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Calvin College)
Music Director: Robert J. Batastini; Organist: Rhonda Sider Edgington (Hope Church)
Approximately 900 participants, including 92 voices of the Holland Ecumenical Choir and the De Sales Brass
View a video of this service at https://vimeo.com/240748411
View the worship folder
