Music in Motion is a safe, fun and welcoming environment for children (ages 2-6) and their parents (or grandparents or caregivers) to have fun dancing and moving to music, learning, and hearing stories. Music in Motion is designed to be a fun and engaging place where children can grow and develop their language skills, fine motor skills, and social skills.

Check out the Music In Motion event page for more information and a current schedule.

Our annual Easter Eggstravaganza is a tradition for many families in the Grandville area. Children ages 10 and under hunt for thousands of eggs in the West Wing of our church in a safe and fun environment. After the hunt, families are invited to join us for crafts, activities, snacks, photo booth, and a special story time.

Kids of ALL ages (that means adults too!) are invited to come in their awesome costumes and join us for an evening of trunk or treat (did someone say candy?), photo opportunities, popcorn, donut holes, cider and loads of FUN!

Motivated by the love of Christ, Alpha Grand Rapids (AGR) promotes abundant life by transforming hearts, enriching lives, and impacting generations. Their model of personalized care ensures that clients’ needs are met with expert help and genuine compassion. Free and confidential services provide comprehensive care, empowering people to thrive in all areas of their lives. It is our privilege to contribute both supplies and finances to this fruitful ministry.

Bridge Street Ministries is a ministry committed to building a bridge between the streets and the church in the West Side neighborhood of Grand Rapids and beyond. We financially support their various youth discipleship opportunities, including the Grand Rapids Bridge Year, a program for post-high school individuals looking to take a season to know Jesus and make Him known while learning what it means to live a life of mission.

Since 1967, Dégagé Ministries has served as a primary community center for homeless and low-income individuals in Grand Rapids offering hope and opportunity. In the last year, they served more than 80,000 meals and provided more than 30,000 overnight stays to people in our community. We are a proud financial partner and various church members serve as volunteers.

On April 1, 2004 Family Network of Wyoming opened as a “client choice” food pantry, serving an average of 11 families per week. In the first year of operation, the food programs served 130,000 pounds of food to 1,400 households. Now, more than 11,000 people receive groceries and other supplies each year from the pantry. It is our privilege to join them in their mission: “To provide dignity and love like Jesus, bringing people together to build stronger, healthier communities.” 

Family Promise of Grand Rapids is dedicated to assisting homeless families in Kent County, keeping them together in times of crisis and helping them to develop a strong foundation for self-sufficiency. We are one of several local churches who take turns hosting families for individual weeks while Family Promise finds safe and affordable housing for them.

Hand2Hand provides food for kids facing weekend hunger in West Michigan. More than a million Michigan students qualify for free meals at school. To fill the weekend gap, H2H mobilizes churches, businesses, and individuals to provide more than 12,000 West Michigan students with weekend food bags. We are one of 145 churches that donate, pack and deliver food in Jesus' name to local schools.

At Kids Hope USA, they believe that all kids matter to Jesus and that the local church is uniquely called to care for children in their community who would benefit from another caring, reliable relationship. We provide mentors who meet weekly with students at a local public school.

Following Jesus Christ, who transforms lives, Love Your Neighbor equips our community to love, serve, and connect with dignity. We support them by serving meals at local Life Skills classes, providing school supplies for students, and helping with housing and other needs of local families.

In 2018, Kyle and Stephanie Brooks merged their Resonate Global Mission church plant in Oakland, California with Bernard and Kim Emerson’s church plant as an expression of God’s multicultural kingdom: a majority white church and a black church; an East Oakland church and a downtown church; a millennial church and a multi-generational church. They combined to form one new, united, multicultural Tapestry Church because “Jesus told us that whatever the word may say, we are one in Him.”

Corey and Amy Havlicek are partner missionaries with Resonate Global Mission, serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators, supporting the completion of Bible translation projects, local language Scripture use, and language development among the Mixe people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Their mission involves surveying linguistic and translation needs in the multiple Mixe languages and meeting with local pastors, town officials, teachers, and Mixe linguists to understand and help meet their needs.

Sandy Johnson is our missionary to the city of Grand Rapids. Through the Treetops Collective, she works directly with immigrant and refugee populations, helping them to connect with needed services as they make the difficult transition to life in a new country and culture. Among other coaching and networking relationships, she also works with Partners Worldwide, a ministry that partners globally with organizations and volunteers to create jobs and fight poverty through redemptive business practices.    

Ava Maring works with Teach Beyond, a sending organization that promotes education as an effective and sustainable form of missions. She teaches English at Evangelical Christian Academy, an international Christian school in Madrid, Spain that offers a quality education from 1st through 12th grade to children of Christian workers and other international students, striving to equip and inspire each student to impact the world through Christ.

Tony and Stacey Meyer pastor Mountainview International Church in Spain, where by God’s power, they empower people to “know Jesus Christ and to grow in His grace” and partner with them in bringing God’s radical message of grace into a society that is desperate to hear it. At the same time, they are shaping the ministry structures and systems to continue the effective ministry that is going on and empower that ministry to flourish into the future. They are missionary partners with Resonate Global Mission.

Steve and Jan Michmerhuizen live in Budapest, Hungary, where Jan is a teacher. Based in Budapest, they partner with Resonate Global Mission in neighboring Romania, where their mission is to join with leaders of churches and Christian organizations through networking, teaching, learning, worship, and community in order to make Christ known throughout Romania and beyond.

Charles and Hensel Oh work with Resonate Global Mission in Japan, a nation where less than 1% of the population identifies as Christian. Their ministry focuses on building authentic relationships to share the Gospel and provide discipleship in a highly secular society. Their key initiatives include establishing new communities of faith in unreached areas, youth leadership training through mentorship, and supporting and discipling Filipino workers in Japan.

April Palmbos works as the Executive Administrative Assistant for International Association for Refugees (IAFR). Her work includes helping new and perspective missionaries along the application process, as well as supporting current missionaries from the home office. IAFR partners with the Church to help people survive and recover from forced displacement in the United States and around the word.l

Josh and Mandy Shaarda and their children serve with Freedom in Christ Ministries in Obulle, Uganda, partnering with Resonate Global Mission. Josh is developing discipleship materials and equipping rural pastors to disciple their congregations. He also coordinates prison ministry and radio ministry in Eastern Uganda. Together, they minister to youth in their community.

Jess Vander Wal is on Eastern Ottawa Young Life staff, leading the ministry team of adult and student volunteers at Unity Christian High School, one of thirteen YL ministries in the Area. The goal of Young Life for the past 85 years has been to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith through intentional, unconditional relationships, which now happens in more than 100 countries around the world.