It is June 9, 2009, and I am interviewing Mr. Henry Hoekstra, a member of Hull Protestant Reformed Church.   MHH:  Mr. Hoekstra, where and when were you born? HH:  I was born in 5/15, 1934, Boyden, Iowa. MHH:  Who were your parents? HH:  Peter and Florence Hoekstra. MHH:  Where did you grow up?  Could […]

Nestled in the plains of Southeast Iowa, along the Des Moines River, not far from Lake “Red Rock,” we find a city of 9300 souls with the name “Pella.” Here we find one of our own Protestant Reformed churches, as well as some very interesting history. Pella is a strange name for a city in […]

In the far northwest corner of the rolling and corn-covered hills of Iowa are two of our Protestant Reformed Churches which have been here almost as long as our churches have been in existence.  While this distant outpost of our denomination is sometimes referred to as “the sticks”, here also people of God have long […]

Those who have never visited the Hawkeye state “where the tall corn grows” have many a misconception of it.  Not that Indians with tomahawks and bow and arrow are still imagined running rife in these parts, but the impression that many have is that the only thing to be seen in Iowa is “tall corn.”   […]