{"id":1238,"date":"2016-09-08T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/?page_id=1238"},"modified":"2024-02-08T21:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T21:45:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing people to Jesus through Christ-centered worship and teaching, authentic relationships, and sharing God’s love to our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vision:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alamosa Christian Reformed Church strives to be a dedicated, passionate, and giving group of families building on a history of working and caring for each other as we share God’s love with our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe that the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, the only infallible rule for faith and life.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our church is part of the\u00a0Christian Reformed Church in North America<\/a> and we affirm three creeds\u2014the\u00a0Apostles\u2019 Creed<\/a>, the\u00a0Nicene Creed<\/a>, and the\u00a0Athanasian Creed<\/a>\u2014as ecumenical expressions of the Christian faith. We also affirm three confessions\u2014the\u00a0Belgic Confession<\/a>, the\u00a0Heidelberg Catechism<\/a>, and the\u00a0Canons of Dort<\/a>\u2014as historic Reformed expressions of the Christian faith, whose doctrines fully agree with the Word of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the winter of 1892, sixty families, who had purchased unseen farmland from a man who sold them the promise of a mild climate with incredibly plentiful land and houses ready to move into, arrived in Alamosa from the Netherlands to find that the weather was much colder than promised and only two wooden structures had been built. After surviving that first winter huddled together, many of the families moved back East but a few stayed and began to work the land. In 1904, after several families moved to the area, the Alamosa Christian Reformed Church was organized and services were held in the school house before a church building was built in 1908. In 1924, after relying on visiting ministers and elders, Alamosa CRC called their first minister, Rev Gerben Zylstra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then the members of Alamosa CRC have continued to gather together, through the challenges and celebrations, to worship God through music, Scripture reading, and fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mission: Drawing people to Jesus through Christ-centered worship and teaching, authentic relationships, and sharing God’s love to our community. Vision: Alamosa Christian Reformed Church strives to be a dedicated, passionate, and giving group of families building on a history of working and caring for each other as we share God’s love with our community. We believe that the Old and New Testaments…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1238\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alamosacrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}