Gerrit B. Boerfyn Collection, 1927-1999 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Phil Eerfmeyer, 2016

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Collection Overview

Title: Gerrit B. Boerfyn Collection, 1927-1999

ID: COLL/556

Primary Creator: Boerfyn, Gerrit B. (1911-2000)

Extent: 3.5 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Minister and Home Missionary of the Christian Reformed Church. This collection contains personal mementos, scrapbooks and photo albums, photographs, letters, and bulletins. He served as a minister or missionary in Flint, MI; San Diego, CA; Tucson, AZ; San Jose, CA; Palo Alto/Redwood City, CA; Gary, IN; Fort Collins, CO; Honolulu, HI; and Ripon, CA.

Biographical Note

Gerrit Bastian Boerfyn was born in Peoria, Iowa, on 6 February 1911 to Gerrit and Jennie Boerfyn. He graduated from Calvin College in 1937 and Calvin Theological Seminary in 1940 and was ordained as a minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. His ministerial career was focused on missions and church planting in the United States.

Boerfyn married Nellie Ada Vanden Berg from Kalamazoo, Michigan. They adopted two daughters Mary Lou and Ruth Ann. After Nellie died, he married Agnes. He died 20 July 200 in Ripon, CA.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: [General Materials]],
[Series 2: Personal Material, 1927-1940],
[Series 3: Church and Home Missions, 1940-1996],
[Series 4: Scrapbooks and Photo Albums, 1934-1965],
[Series 5: Articles, Bulletins, and Reports, 1937-1999],
[Series 6: Scrapbooks and Photo Albums, 1937-1964],
[All]

Series 5: Articles, Bulletins, and Reports --- 1937-1999

Box 4

Folder 1: Compositions and Articles
Folder 2: Student Preaching Report --- 1937-1940
Folder 3: Banner article, "Who will Reach John?" --- 1958
Folder 4: Responses to Today Meditations --- Nov. 1988
Folder 5: Banner article, "You have Alzheimer's Disease" and responses --- 1987
Folder 6: Young Calvinist Easter article, Mrs. G. B. Boerfyn --- 1951
Folder 7: Autograph Book --- 1932
Folder 8: Bethany Fellowship Bulletins --- March 1986-December 1988
Folder 9: Bethany Fellowship Bulletins --- January 1989-December 1990
Folder 10: Bethany Fellowship Bulletins --- January 1991-December 1993
Folder 11: Bethany Fellowship Bulletins --- January 1994-August 1999