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Melanie van overloop12/23/2023 ![]() There was a long bus ride to Hope School on a route which included stops as far west as Beaverdam, but that would not stand in the way. So my parents moved to Hudsonville, to a house on 32nd Avenue (just two blocks from the present location of the Protestant Reformed church in Hudsonville). As well, they were very conscious of the vows they had made at baptism, namely, to see their child “instructed and brought up in the aforesaid doctrine…to the utmost of their power.” They would do whatever it took to have their child properly educated. For them this move was necessitated by their love for God and for their children. There were no bus routes from Byron Center to Hope Protestant Reformed Christian School in Walker. When it was time for my elementary education to begin my parents saw the need for a move. Love for God and His Church overcame any obstacles created by distance. ![]() At that time the efforts to establish a Protestant Reformed Church in Byron Center had ceased, and those in this community who desired to be Protestant Reformed traveled to the northwest about ten miles to attend the Protestant Reformed Church in Hudsonville. Gerrit Vos as a member of Hudsonville Protestant Reformed Church.įor the first four and half years of my life I lived on 84th Street in Byron Center, Michigan (just a block away from the present location of the Protestant Reformed Church in Byron). God gave Gordon and June Van Overloop a baby boy on February 13, 1949.
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