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Our fall newsletter is here, packed with connections, community, challenge, celebration, congratulations, church news, choices and more. Please read and share!
Half-way There!
Room for All recently launched the matching phase of our “Connection Challenge” campaign. Inspired by the combined gifts of a group of generous donors totaling $50,000, we challenged our supporters to match that amount with another $50,000. We’re grateful to announce that we’ve just passed the halfway mark, with a little over $26,000 contributed. You can gauge our…
DetailsConnection Challenge Progress: $10,000!
Room for All recently launched the matching phase of our “Connection Challenge” campaign. Inspired by the combined gifts of a group of generous donors totaling $50,000, we challenged our supporters to match that amount with another $50,000. We’re grateful to announce that we’ve already received $10,000 toward our match goal! You can gauge our progress by…
DetailsRfA Connection Challenge Celebrates Community, Solidarity & Hope
Thanks to the generosity of a geographically diverse group of supporters, Room for All is grateful to announce a $50,000 matching challenge to help sustain and expand our ministry in the coming year. Read all the details here!
Statement from RfA to the Reformed Church in America
GROUNDED, GATHERED, and GRATEFUL: A STATEMENT TO THE BODY OF CHRIST IN THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA May 23, 2018 Delegates to the 2018 General Synod of the Reformed Church in America will be called upon to weigh and vote on matters that will signal and affect the future of this denominational communion, together or…
DetailsReport of RfA & Gospel Alliance Meeting
At the initiative of Lee De Young, RCA General Synod President, representatives of Room for All and The Gospel Alliance met in Holland, Michigan in March. Lee De Young and Interim General Secretary Don Poest also attended. The 2-day meeting was facilitated by Jim Herrington, founder of Faithwalking. The report of that meeting has now…
DetailsLiving and Learning from Rev. Edwin G. Mulder
Along with many in the Reformed Church in America, Room for All mourns the death of Rev. Ed Mulder today. No doubt there will be many tributes in the days to come, tracing Ed’s humble roots in Minnesota, his call to ministry and ordination to the office of Minister of Word and Sacrament in the…
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Letting Go
I need to let go. Not give up. Just…let go. I was 30 years old when I first attended an inclusive worship service in 1989. I doubt the memory of that experience will ever fade. It hasn’t yet even though I’m nearly doubled in years. I wept. Uncontrollably. As hard as I tried to gather…
DetailsFling the Church Doors Open Wide!
“I came to see the great unmet hunger in welcoming congregations, across the ecumenical spectrum, for songs that proclaim the limitless love and radical welcome of God.” Singer-songwriter David Lohman has taken a step forward in satisfying that hunger with today’s release of his first album, “Fling the Church Doors Open Wide: Songs of…
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Giving Tuesday
Last week, two people I haven’t seen in some time contacted me. Both of them had very similar requests (purely coincidental). They each needed a member of the LGBTQIA community to interview for a school project. The first friend contacted me on behalf of their high-school aged child, who was completing an assignment for a…
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