About Us - Our Denomination

About the Christian Reformed Church

From the CRCNA website:

The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) includes just over one thousand congregations across the United States and Canada. About 75 percent of the churches are in the United States; 25 percent are in Canada. We’re one of only a few binational denominations: rather than split into different churches at the 49th parallel, we’re united. Almost 300,000 people belong to the CRCNA—not a large number when you consider the population of our two countries. But by God’s grace we can accomplish a lot when we work together.

We call ourselves the Christian Reformed Church in North America. What does that mean?

• We call ourselves Christian because we are followers of Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus was the Son of God and that he is the center of human history.
• We’re called Reformed because we grow on a branch of the church tree that emerged from the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe.
• We’re a Church because we believe God has called us together to be a people who belong to him and live for him.
• North America tells you where we are situated; but it also tells you we’re connected with other Reformed denominations in other places around the globe.

Our emblem is the cross in a triangle. The triangle represents the Trinity, our belief in the one God we know as three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The cross symbolizes our belief in Jesus Christ's sacrificial death for our salvation.

For more information about the Christian Reformed Church, please visit www.crcna.org.