Monthly Archives: April 2011

The Rev. Dr. H. Gene Straatmeyer The Easter Sunday morning service at the Rysum Evangelical Reformed Church began at 10.15 a.m. I heard of no sunrise services like we have in America. The church is located about a mile or … Continue reading →

The Rev. Dr. H. Gene Straatmeyer Since the last service we attended, I discovered information about this church in a magazine called Groninger Kerken, “Middeleeuwse Kerken in Groningen en Ostfriesland,” 28ste jaargang nr. 2 – april 2011, p. 18. The … Continue reading →

By The Rev. Dr. H. Gene Straatmeyer Suurhusen is the village in which my wife Jean Plucker Straatmeyer’s great grandmother grew up as a girl. Engel Poppen later married Menne Plucker from Uttum, Ostfriesland and they emigrated to the United … Continue reading →

I wrote this essay in Loquard, Germany on April 10, 2011.  My wife and I are spending five weeks in the area called Ostfriesland because all of our grandparents and great grandparents came from here and emigrated to South Dakota. … Continue reading →

by the Rev. Dr. H. Gene Straatmeyer In the biography by Douglas Sweeney, it was Jonathan Edwards, the slaveholder, that made me think about sin that is sin but sin that we do not acknowledge as sin because we are … Continue reading →