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Charles Spoelhof Collection

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Collection Overview

Title: Charles Spoelhof Collection, 1919-1989

ID: COLL/350

Primary Creator: Spoelhof, Charles (1897-1989)

Extent: 1.5 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Collection includes correspondence and reports to the Home Mission Board, 1948-1958; papers on evangelism and immigration, and office of deacon and elder; minutes and reports regarding the Ralph Janssen case, 1921; radio, catechism, special occasion, and Old and New Testament sermons.

Biographical Note

Charles Spoelhof graduated from Calvin Theological Seminary in 1921. After spending a year of post-graduate study at Princeton Seminary, he accepted a call to the Oskaloosa, Iowa, CRC. In 1922 Spoelhof married Elizabeth Keegstra. Also around this time, Spoelhof's ordination to the ministry took place September 17, 1922. The Oskaloosa ministry called for preaching in the Dutch language, but carrying on youth work in English. During his fourth year at the church he introduced English at one service a month.

His ministry in Lodi, New Jersey, involved a return to the area of his birth, Paterson, New Jersey. Twenty-one of the twenty-two years in Lodi, Charles served as stated clerk of Classis Hudson. Pastor Spoelhof was a sympathetic and tender shepherd during the years of the Depression and the Second World War.

When Chatham, Ontario, called him to serve as a home missionary in the Ontario area, Charles began a ministry in Canada among the immigrants of the post-war period which extended from 1948 until his retirement in 1962. His home mission activity covered immigrant churches in the Ontario and British Columbia areas.

After forty years of full-time service in the Christian Reformed Church, Charles Spoelhof retired. He continued to minister, however, as assistant to the pastor at Neland Avenue CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served in this capacity until 1980. His wife, Elizabeth, passed away in 1964. He married Theresa Bergsma Keegstra, and she passed in 1987. Charles Spoelhof passed away on March 21, 1989 in Rochester, New York.


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Series 1: Sermonic Material
Box 1
Folder 1: In memoriam --- 1989
Folder 2-4: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 1-52 --- 1924-1962
Folder 5: Anniversaries --- 1951-1965
Folder 6: Ascension --- 1927-1962
Folder 7: "Bileam" series --- 1930-1980
Folder 8: Christmas --- 1922-1961
Folder 9: Communion --- 1923-1961
Folder 10: Easter --- 1920-1962
Folder 11: Elijah --- 1931-1937
Box 2
Folder 1: Funeral addresses --- 1928-1980
Folder 2: General text --- 1926-1960
Folder 3: "Great Dreams" series --- 1928-1946
Folder 4: Good Friday --- 1926-1962
Folder 5: Hebrews 11 --- 1919-1934
Folder 6: Installation, Confessions of Faith --- 1923-1962
Folder 7: Jonah --- 1934
Folder 8: Mother's Day messages --- 1939-1947
Folder 9: Old and New Year's --- 1926-1966
Folder 10: Post-communion --- 1926-1962
Folder 11: Prayer Day --- 1923-1962
Folder 12: Radio messages --- 1944, undated
Folder 13: Reformation Day --- 1934-1959
Folder 14: Words from the Cross --- 1927-1962
Folder 15: Thanksgiving Day --- 1926-1961
Series 2: Miscellaneous --- 1921-1980
Box 3
Folder 1: Seminary student reports with regard to the Janssen Case. --- 1921
Folder 2: Minutes of meetings for "general discussion" with regard to the Seminary and Janssen Case --- April 27, 1921 - May 31, 1921
Folder 3: "The Offices of Deacon and Elder Conference in Woodstock, Ontario," paper --- undated
Folder 4: Correspondence while home missionary in Canada --- 1948-1954
Folder 5: Drie Formulieren van Eenigheid outline
Folder 6: Committee on Order of Worship for Canada, report --- 1953
Folder 7: "Evangelism and Immigration," paper --- undated
Folder 8: "Sociale Voorzieningen in Canada," by A. S. Tuinman, Nederlands Landbouw en Emigratie Attache --- January 1956
Folder 9: Reports of C. Spoelhof to the Home Mission Board --- October 1957, February 1958, May to November 1958
Folder 10: Biographical notes --- 1968-1980
Folder 11: Sermons on Psalm 8, Genesis 32, Habakkuk 3, and Hosea 1-3 --- 1928-1965
Folder 12: Twelve radio sermons given on WPAT, Paterson, NJ --- 1944-1947

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