Kuyper College - Echo Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Motto . . Chosen to be 7fUiineJ4eJ Class Text: Ye have not Chosen me, but I have chosen you. and onlzlinerl you, that ye should go anal bring forth fruit. zuul that your fruit shoulcl l'ClIl2llllI Lhal whatsoever ye shall ask ol' Lhe Falher in my name, he may give it you. 10,111 15:16. SENICRS l,1l:Ql' Tzvflllv-o

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Page Twenty raduation, and then . . . When attending a school. one naturally looks forward to graduation. This is especially true in one's senior year. Involuntarily, my thoughts wander back to the Netherlands. to a little event in the life of a grade-school graduate. After graduation. Mary was to stay home about a year to help her mother. During her first morning at home. Mary washed the breakfast dishes and cleaned the kitchen and dining room. Then it was coffee time. When the coffee was gone, she suddenly began to cry. Wfhen her mother asked the reason for her sadness, Mary replied. I just washed the dishes. and now I have to start all over again. Yes. Mary was through school, but she was not through life. Graduation means another start, and more training. The cups. too, were not washed to be kept clean, but to do more service. This is especially true of our Reformed Bible Institute graduates. The school training is almost over, but we feel very keenly that another training still is to come in our service to our King. One thing we have learned while at school is the necessity of daily devotions. If we are faithful in this exercise, we will receive the richest blessings upon our work. YVe cannot with words express how precious those devotional periods have become to us. God speaks to us through His YVord, and in prayer we have fellow- ship with Him in the name of Christ Jesus. How good it is to feel God's presence around us and the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. It lifts us out of the everyday worries and cares, strengthens us on our way. fills us with assurance, and gives us a peace the world can neither provide nor take away. Yes, the graduates are going to have a new start. We will miss the Reformed Bible Institute, which has given us so many wonderful times. We leave with regret, but we also look forward to the future. If we stay in close relationship to God, it will result in the right relationship to our neighbors, and ultimately, it will be to the glory of God our Maker. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercyf, Ps. 147211. BETTY NIEUWSTRATEN, Senior

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Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift. II CORINTHIANS 9:15 First Chr. Ref. Church Class Pres. - '52-'53 Student Council VP, - '54-'55 Teaching: Buckley Chapel- '53-'54 D.V.B.S., Munster, Ind.-Summers '53-'54 D.V.B.S., 36th St. Chr. Ref. Ch.-Summers '53-'54 D.V.B.S., Buckley Chapel -Summers '53-'54 Ionia Ave. Chapel- '54-'55 Speaking: Ionia Ave. Chapel- '54-'55 Personal Work: Buckley Chapel- '53-'54 Veterans' Facility - '53-'54 Alger Park Chr. Ref. Church - '53-'54 Ionia Ave. Chapel - '54-'55 LE ROY BAAS, Randolph, VVis. II Randolph Chr. Ref. Church Trust in the Lord with all thine heart: and lean not unto thine own under- standing. In all thy ztfays acknoailerlge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. PRov. 3:5, 6. Class President - '54-'55 Teaching: Ada Ref. Church. Catechism- '53-'54 Hillcrest Chapel Sunday School- '54-'55 D.V.B.S., Aberdeen Ref. Church - '54 Speaking: Hillcrest Chapel, Battle Creek. Mich.- '54-'55 Personal II'ork: Buckley Chapel -'53-'541 '54-'55 Veterans' Facilities - '53-'54 Aberdeen Ref. Church - '54 Hillcrest Chapel, Battle Creek - '54-'55 HARRIET BUSSIS, Borculo, Michigan Borculo Chr. Ref. Church loved me, and gave Himself for me. Student Council Representative- '53-'54: '54-'55 Bible Class, Mary Free Bed- '53-'54: '54-'55 Page Twenty-two Sunday School, Borculo Chr. Ret. Ch. -Summers ' D,V.B.S., Griggs St. Gospel Chapel -Summers '53-' WAYNE ALDERINK, Grand Rapids, Michigan That if tlzou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord jesus. and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believetlz unto righteousness: and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ROM. 10:9-ll I anz crucihed with Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I, hut Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who Teaching: Bible Class, Griggs St. Gospel Chapel- '53-'543 '54-'55 53-'54 54 Personal Work: Griggs St. Gospel Chapel- '53-'54g '54-'55 GAL. 2:20