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Collection Overview
Title: John Medendorp Collection, 1933-1992
ID: COLL/167
Primary Creator: John Medendorp (1892-1976)
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes notes; sermons; commemorative booklets on the American Bible Society and the Nathaniel Institute; three scrapbooks with clippings from religious periodicals (one scrapbook on the Bolt family); and a series of articles published in the Bozeman, Montana Courier in 1949, entitled "History of Holland Settlement."
Biographical Note
John Medendorp was born, October 19, 1892, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his education in the local schools, graduating from Calvin Seminary in 1912. Later he received the STD degree from Pike’s Peak Bible Seminary.
Upon graduation from the seminary, John Medendorp was ordained into the Christian ministry and remained active until shortly before his death. During the years of full active ministry, he was minister in Dutton, Michigan, from September 23, 1921 until 1926. Thereafter he served in Rusk, Michigan (1926-1930); Racine, Wisconsin (1930-1945); Bozeman, Montana (1945-1951); and Ogilvie, Minnesota (1951-1958). When he retired, he continued to serve as assistant pastor of First Zeeland Christian Reformed Church from 1958-1966 and then served as assistant pastor in the South Grandville Christian Reformed Church.
During his ministry, he was active on classical committees and served as a member of the denominational Board of Home Missions. He was delegated to synod in 1932 and in 1946. He was an avid reader of a variety of religious magazines and kept abreast of theological studies appearing in various periodicals.
He married Wilhelmina Antoinette Hoogerwerk the year of his ordination. She was still living when he passed away December 5, 1976. The family included one daughter and three sons.
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- Folder 1: Series of Articles entitled "History of Holland Settlement"
- Folder 2: American Bible Society commemorative material at 100 years of the printed English Bible --- 1935
- Folder 3
- Item 1: Anniversary booklet of Calvin College --- 1910
- Item 2: Anniversary booklet of Oakdale CRC --- 1940
- Item 3: Anniversary booklet of Kelloggsville CRC --- 1925
- Folder 4: De Blijde Boodschap, children's meditation booklets --- December 1911, January 1914, December 1915, October 1916, November 1913
- Folder 5: Calvin College alumni list --- 1926 and before
- Folder 6: Horner, K. A. Sermon on Matthew 28:18-20 in Christian Beacon --- August 23, 1951
- Folder 7: Letter to "Dear Friends" --- December 26, 1967
- Folder 8: McIntire, Carl. Address at second plenary Congress at ICCC --- 1950
- Folder 9: Nathaniel Institute booklets --- 1929 and 1944
- Folder 10: New Deal booklets --- 1930
- Item 1: The Aggressor in the White House
- Item 2: The Genesis of the "New Deal"
- Item 3: International "New" Dealism
- Item 4: The President Knows
- Folder 11: Notes, mimeographed, on the book of Job
- Folder 12: Notes, mimeographed, on Paul's letters
- Folder 13: Notes, handwritten, on sundry subjects
- Folder 14: Published booklets: The Drummer Boy by M.I. Rossvally; Aboard the Seth Parker; Telephone Almanac --- 1930
- Folder 15: Published periodicals: Individual issues: The Christian Journal, (micro) --- Oct. 1, 1931
- Folder 16: Pulpit Preaching, two issues --- Nov. 1954, Nov. 1955
- Folder 17: Voor de lieve kleinen, children's meditation booklets --- Feb. 1910; Sept. 1913; Oct. 1914
- Folder 18: Student days "Round Robins." Call letter of Ogelvie and Classis minutes
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