Edwin and Ruth Stegenga Luidens, still in their early twenties, set sail in October 1944 from Philadelphia for mission work in the Middle East. While World War II raged in Europe, they hopscotched ...

Margaret Doorenbos begins her story in 1965 when her family arrived on the little desert island of Bahrain. I remember well the moment the Doorenbos family joined the Arabian Mission, in what we ...

“By any measure, Tena Huizenga lived a remarkable life, a life of service to humankind in the name of her Lord. Herein is her story of 17 adventurous years as a missionary nurse in the hinterlands of ...

Edited by Donald A. Luidens, Donald J. Bruggink, and Herman J. De Vries Jr. Sola scriptura, decreed the Reformers, and thereby launched a literacy frenzy. The newly christened “priesthood of all ...

“This story is a beautiful testimony of generations of a community committed to educating children to love and serve God by loving their neighbor and doing the right thing. There are hard financial ...

“Janet Sheeres has produced a remarkable account of Dutch-born midwives who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... [She] has worked valiantly to uncover the ...

Family Quarrels focuses on the religious history of the Dutch Calvinist emigration from the Netherlands to West Michigan and the church struggles of the early settlers. It explores the reasons that ...

Edited by Robert P. Swierenga, Nella Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra Since the mid-nineteenth century, the successful prosecution of American wars involved the entire population. Wars had become total, ...

An international conjoined course with students participating from Hope, Lebanon and Slovakia, this South Africa study-tour provides a holistic view of transformation and reconciliation processes in ...

Generation Spark gives church leaders a research-based action plan to not only retain youth (ages 16–24) and adults (ages 45 and older) but also attract and fully integrate them into the life and ...

A fully illustrated biography of A.C. Van Raalte (1811–1876), founder of a major settlement of Dutch immigrants to America. It discusses the causes for emigration, the hardships of travel to and ...

Events of the early 1940s reverberated across the globe and through the young Boelkins family in West Michigan. Nazi Germany ravaged Europe and western Russia, and by 1941, England was under threat of ...