January 11: First service with Rev. J. R. Brink in the chapel of a Baptist church at Clinton St. and Joseph Campau (approximately one block north of the east end of Macomb St., southwest of Elmwood Cemetery).

January 12: Decision to designate the new group as a mission station of the Christian Reformed Church.

February 23: The group decides to petition Classis (the regional body of the Christian Reformed Church) to organize a new congregation here.

April 13: The consistory discusses the advisability of starting a Christian School, followed by efforts to organize a Christian School Society.

June 11: First Christian Reformed Church of Detroit is organized.

June 15: Ladies Aid Society is organized.

January 18: The congregation purchased a German Reformed church building at Jay and Chene (approximately Chene northwest of Antietam) for $13,000.

May 31: Decision to have Sunday school in Dutch and English on alternate Sundays, but it is soon decided to have separate Dutch and English classes.

Fall: Young Men’s Society organized (and organized again in 1921, 1924, 1932…  Apparently the society had a hard time keeping itself going.).

February 3: Rev. Herman Bel of Rochester, New York, is installed as the first pastor.

December 8: Mission Sunday school is begun in the Gratiot-Six Mile Rd. area (discontinued August 28, 1929).

Rev. Bel leaves for Muskegon.

October 28: Young Ladies Society is organized (for the second time).

December 31: Rev. Henry Verduin of Purewater, South Dakota, is installed.  He was called upon to preach one Dutch and two English sermons per Sunday.

July 2: The congregation decides to sell the Chene St. church building to the African Methodist Church for $28,000; the last service in the building is on September 2.

October 22:  After three Sundays in a lodge hall at Mt Elliott Ave. and Charlevoix and six months in the school of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Jay and Joseph Campau (approximately two blocks southeast of Joseph Campau and Vernor), the church purchases lots at Maryland and Goethe in Grosse Pointe Park for $8400 (all previous locations were in the vicinity of the present Ford Field and Elmwood Cemetery).

November 12: The church decides to build a new building seating 400 people with provisions for a future gallery at a cost not to exceed $45,000; groundbreaking is on November 30.

November 15: Choral Society is formed.

February 1: The Young Men’s Society discusses whether “Confessed Lady members of our church” should “be allowed to vote in Church Election."

Grosse Pointe Christian Day School opens, with Dewey Westra as principal.

January 31: The church is gutted by a fire that leaves only the outside walls standing.  The insurance company pays $33,000, and the building is restored for about $25,000, leaving a surplus.  Until the building is finished, afternoon services are held in Grace Evangelical Church (Kercheval at Lakepointe), and morning and evening services and Sunday school are held in Jackson School, Marlborough and Waveney, Detroit.

An approximately 1921-vintage Page theater organ is purchased.

May: Rev. Monsma leaves for Pella, Iowa.

October 7: Rev. George W. Hylkema, from Orange City, Iowa, preaches his inaugural sermon.

February 21: The Mary and Martha Circle holds its first meeting (now Women’s Bible Study).

September 31: Boys Club and Girls Club are started.

December 31: Rev. Hylkema preaches his farewell sermon, leaving to become chaplain at Pine Rest Hospital.

Rev. Schuring leaves, and Rev. Menko Ouwinga arrives.

June 27: Lake Worth, Florida, Christian Reformed Church is sponsored as a Home Missions Church.

November: The first Sunday school classes in Immanuel Chapel, Roseville.

Rev. Samuel Vander Jagt arrives.

The Lake Worth, Florida, Christian Reformed Church is organized.

October 24: Choral Society is renewed, but following participation on Thanksgiving a protest is raised about it on various grounds.

Centennial of the Christian Reformed Church.

January 8: Council rejects the protest against the Choral Society.

October 1: Rev. John H. Groenewald preaches his inaugural sermon.

Council approves right of women to vote in Congregational Meeting.

February 11: Initial worship services at the Christian Reformed Church in Royal Oak (church sponsored by a group from First Church).

Fall, a new, 17-rank organ is installed, with pipes from Holland and cabinetry from Germany, at a  cost of $17,000.

Rev. Groenewald leaves.

July 3: Rev. Franklin D. Steen preaches his inaugural sermon.

September: Grosse Pointe Human Relations Council holds its first meeting, following Detroit race riots of July; several First Church members attend (became Grosse Pointe Interfaith Center for Racial Justice).

First Church families sponsor Wayne Reformed Fellowship at Wayne State University.

Rev. Steen leaves.

Community Assistance Program (C.A.P.) is begun.

Choir begins to sing regularly in worship services.

February: Coffee Break Bible Study begins.

September 12: Rev. Douglas A. Warners is installed.

Children’s Church begins.

Elizabeth Dowdell replaces Stuart Eppinga as choir director.

Rev. Warners leaves.

October 10: Rev. William J. Moxey becomes the new pastor.

March: Maundy Thursday services are initiated.

Spring: Crossroads East social service office opens with First Church members involved.

October: Adult Education receives new emphasis.

Rev. Moxey leaves.

A new parsonage is purchased, and the old one becomes Parish House for various activities.

November 9: Rev. DeVries preaches his farewell sermon and leaves for First Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids.