Early next year three of our ministers hope to celebrate very special anniversaries. On January 2, 2003 Rev. Gerald Hamstra will have served forty years in the ministry of the Word, while on the 20th day of the same month it will be twenty-five years ago that Rev. Carl Schouls became a minister of the Gospel. Two weeks later, on February 3, Rev. Pieter VanderMeyden also may look back on a quarter of a century of service in the Church of Christ.

As updates via the Messenger sometimes come in later that the events occur, the Mission Committee wishes to advise the churches via this method of the following: