Mark Atlas (1987): The thing that I am looking forward most is to have a place that is our own. Since 1975 we have been renting different facilities. But now finally we have place that is ours that no one can take it from us, or we will need to move out. Also I want…
DetailsInterview with Rev. W. Silfhout, Pastor of the Gereformeerde Gemeente, Capelle a/d IJssel When did you become involved with the Isaac da Costa Fund? That happened in 1999. According to the statutes, two of the board members had to come from the Netherlands Reformed Congregations. I was asked to be one of these two and…
DetailsTheodore Vander Groe (1705-1784) had little expectation for the time in which he lived. He was deeply saddened by the spiritual and moral declension of the people and the church of the Netherlands. Human wisdom had made its way into church and society. Increasingly, preachers had positive thoughts about man’s abilities. Would a divine wonder…
DetailsIt was an event in October 1942 that deeply affected him. In the family of Rev. W.C. Lamain (1904-1984), a sixth child had been born. At the Mijnsherenplein, the square in Rotterdam where the family resided, another child was born. It was a child of Jewish parents. This child was hardly nine days old when…
DetailsIsraeli Realities Tensions with the Palestinians continue with repeated stabbing and car-ramming attacks. These are the combined product of the hopelessness with which young Palestinians view the future and of violent provocations on the part of a determined minority of Israeli settlers. Most of the attacks are perpetrated by boys and girls under the age…
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