Grand Rapids, Michigan • Saturday, June 7, 2025

It’s time to bloom again.

SATURDAY

10 am

Welcome & Convocation

Love > Understanding.

It’s tempting to allow our differences to keep us apart.

Indeed, we differ: theologically, politically, ideologically.

But we share a heritage and the conviction that Love is greater than Understanding.

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (NIV)

SATURDAY

10:30

Pin the theses on the door

If you had 95 truths to proclaim, what would they be?

SATURDAY

10:45 am

Calvinist Cadet “Camp Out”

Earn your rainbow badge today. Hear the stories of former Cadets who crusaded their way out of the closet and into their truth.

SATURDAY

11:00

Snert-for-the-Soul Sharing Circle

An open forum. Share your memories, nostalgia, recipes, thoughts.

SATURDAY

11:15

Dutch & Diligent

Connect and Discuss: How has the Protestant work ethic shaped you you for better…and for worse?

SATURDAY

11:30 onwards

Kuyperian Scavenger Hunt

Search every square inch for spheres of surprise.

SATURDAY

All day

Dutch Bingo

An interactive mapping exercise. How many degrees of separation are between you, me, Schultze-Eldersveld, Auntie Ruth in Bellingham, and Reverend van dan Heuvel?

SATURDAY

1 pm

Decriminalized Delights

Experience the pleasure of doing the things that were verboden for previous generations of CRC folk. Sing hymns. Play cards. Watch movies. Dance. Make a plan to ride your bike on a Sunday. Then ponder together how future generations might look back at 2025.

SATURDAY

1:30 pm

HSR: Human Spirituality Report

Join the story slam. Share and hear how humans raised in the Christian Reformed Church have experienced spiritual development throughout their lives. How has our understanding of God, Faith, Devotion, and Love developed?

SATURDAY

2:00 pm

Ollie Bollen, anyone?

Enter the cook-off with your lekkerest recipe. Eet smakelijk!

SATURDAY

2:30 pm

Tug-of-War

Test the strength of the ties that bind. In the semi-finals, Classis GR East takes on the Abide Project while Better Together goes toe-to-toe against a coalition of Khesed Project and All One Body. Winners advance to the finals. Cheer them and find out who’s predestined to win.

SATURDAY

3:00 pm

Frugal housewifespouse competition

Waste not, want not. Who can get the most toothpaste out of an already empty tube of Colgate? Who can scrape a jar of marmalade so clean it doesn’t need a wash? How many times can you reuse a single paper towel? Let’s put that frugal stewardship to the test.

SATURDAY

4:00 pm

Call the Question

An exploration of doubt, a celebration of unclarity. How should we proceed when there are multiple ways forward, or none at all?