A HISTORY OF OUR CHURCH 1969 – 2022
History from 1910-85 compiled and written by
Isabelle Bushart in conjunction with Carolyn Adriaansen
Later entries by Rev Donald White.
Pastor’s Preface: What often happens in “ethnic” churches, transplanted from the “old country”, striving to keep to old country customs and language, is a growing dissension within a church over which language to use, the old country’s or the new country’s.* Out of this type of language friction, in the providence of God, Second Reformed Church (the group that chose to retain Dutch as the primary language used in worship services and likely the group comprising the Zeeland immigrants who had been in America the shortest time) was born out of First Reformed Church. That church had chosen to conduct worship services primarily in the American language, and likely, comprised the body of immigrants who had been in this country for more than one generation