From the earliest years, Hope College students have gained valuable lessons and attained goals beyond the classroom through athletics. And in so doing, they have added a stimulating dimension to ...

Generation Spark gives church leaders a research-based action plan to not only retain youth (ages 16–24) and adults (ages 45 and older) but also attract and fully integrate them into the life and ...

Edwin and Ruth Stegenga Luidens, still in their early twenties, set sail in October 1944 from Philadelphia for mission work in the Middle East. While World War II raged in Europe, they hopscotched ...

There is a close relationship between highly successful Dutch American entrepreneurs and their Calvinist values and upbringing, and their success in business has led to major works of philanthropy.

These ninety-four letters of Albertus C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan, to Philip Phelps Jr., who became the first president of Hope College, are significant for two reasons in particular.

Dr. Paul G. Fried (1919–2006), professor of history and director of international education at Hope College (Holland, Michigan), often spoke of writing a memoir of his family’s World War II ...

A fully illustrated biography of A.C. Van Raalte (1811–1876), founder of a major settlement of Dutch immigrants to America. It discusses the causes for emigration, the hardships of travel to and ...

“This story is a beautiful testimony of generations of a community committed to educating children to love and serve God by loving their neighbor and doing the right thing. There are hard financial ...

“By any measure, Tena Huizenga lived a remarkable life, a life of service to humankind in the name of her Lord. Herein is her story of 17 adventurous years as a missionary nurse in the hinterlands of ...

The fifteen essays in this festschrift pay homage to a colleague, mentor and friend, whose professional career has spanned more than fifty years. After retiring in 1992 as the Blekkink Professor ...

The celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Albertus C. Van Raalte in October 2011 provided a distinct opportunity to evaluate the enduring legacy of one of the best-known Dutch immigrants of ...

Margaret Doorenbos begins her story in 1965 when her family arrived on the little desert island of Bahrain. I remember well the moment the Doorenbos family joined the Arabian Mission, in what we ...