Collection Overview
Title: First Orthodox Protestant Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI Collection, 1926-1962
ID: COLL/501
Extent: 6.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
The First Protesting Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was incorporated in 1926; amended to the First Protestant Reformed Church in 1927; conferred by articles of association to the First Orthodox Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1961 (via Name Committee in 1956); dissolved in 1962; and assumed by Sherman Street Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The collection includes consistory and council minutes (restricted); correspondence; Sunday school, Mission Board, and congregational minutes; young people; Priscilla; Ladies’ Aid; and Mr. and Mrs. Society minutes; and materials regarding the legal actions of this church.
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: Articles of Association and Amendment
- Box 1
- Folder 1
- Item 1: Articles of Association of First Protesting Reformed Church --- 1926
- Item 2: Amendment: The First Protestant Reformed Church --- 1927
- Series 2: Consistory Minutes --- 1953-1961
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Box 1
- Folder 2: Consistory minutes --- 1953-1954
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 3: Consistory minutes --- 1955 and 1957
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 4: Consistory minutes --- 1958-1959
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 5: Consistory minutes --- 1960
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 6: Consistory minutes --- January 1961-August 1961
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 7: Council minutes --- 1953-1954
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 8: Council minutes --- 1955-1956
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 9: Council minutes --- 1957
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 10: Council minutes --- 1958-1959
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 11: Council minutes --- 1960
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Folder 12: Council minutes --- January 1956-January 1961
- Access Restriction: RESTRICTED
- Series 3: Materials: Superior Court
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Superior Court Bill of Complaint --- 1954
- Folder 2: Superior Court Order re: Release of Impounded Funds --- 1956
- Folder 3: Affirmation of Supreme Court Decree --- 1956
- Folder 4: Superior Court Petition and Supreme Court Decrees --- 1958
- Folder 5
- Item 1: Appeal from Supreme Court Decisions --- 1959
- Item 2: Clipping --- 1960
- Folder 6: Appeal of Supreme Court Affirmation of Superior Court Decision --- [1959]
- Series 4: Correspondence --- 1953-1962
- Box 2
- Folder 7: Correspondence --- 1953
- Folder 8: Letters to Congregation from First Protestant Reformed Church Consistory --- 1953
- Folder 9: Correspondence --- 1954-1956
- Folder 10: Correspondence --- 1957-1958
- Folder 11: Correspondence with Christian Reformed Church Synod re: Reunification --- 1957-1961
- Folder 12: Correspondence re: Membership Transfers --- 1961-1962
- Folder 13: Correspondence --- Undated
- Series 5: Mr. and Mrs. Society Minutes --- 1947-1961
- [incomplete]
- Box 2
- Folder 14: Mr. and Mrs. Society minutes --- October 1947-February 1950
- Folder 15: Mr. and Mrs. Society minutes --- October 1953-April 1957
- Folder 16: Mr. and Mrs. Society minutes --- January 1960-April 1961
- Series 6: Priscilla Society Minutes --- 1938-1955
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Priscilla Society minutes --- October 1938-September 1939
- Folder 2: Priscilla Society minutes --- October 1939-January 1943
- Folder 3: Priscilla Society minutes --- January 1943-September 1945
- Folder 4: Priscilla Society minutes --- September 1945-September 1948
- Folder 5: Priscilla Society minutes --- October 1948-June 1955
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Priscilla Society minutes --- 1955-1961
- Series 7: Various Committee Minutes
- Box 4
- Folder 2: Ladies' Aid Society minutes --- September 1956-May 1961
- Folder 3: Sunday School Teachers' minutes --- November 1927-November 1931
- Folder 4: Sunday School Teachers' minutes --- January 1937-December 1946
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Mission Committee minutes --- September 1954-August 1956
- Folder 2: Mission Board minutes --- October 1956-July 1960
- Folder 3: Building Committee minutes --- February 1955-October 1961
- Folder 4: Young People's Society minutes --- October 1957-January 1960
- Folder 8: Congregational meeting minutes --- November 1953-September 1961
- Series 8: Misc. Material
- Box 5
- Folder 5: Directory --- 1959
- Folder 6
- Folder 7: Protestant Reformed Synod minutes re: Attempts at Reunion with Christian Reformed Church --- 1959-1961
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Material re: Protestant Reformed Church Disbandment and Members' Association with Sherman Street Christian Reformed Church --- 1927-1962
- Folder 2: Acts of Synod of the Protestant Reformed Churches of America --- 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960