First Reformed Church (FRC) - Orange City, Iowa

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The mission of First Reformed Church is to: Glorify the Triune God in worship, prayer, and service; Know Christ in our hearts, in each other, and in the world; Make Jesus known in all places through embodied witness | Our Story How it all started... First Reformed Church has a long history. No, we weren’t planted by one of the original 12 apostles, but we’re no Johnny-come-lately either. FRC was started back in Laura-Ingalls-Wilder time — 1871 — as the fulfilled dream of a community of Dutch settlers to Northwest Iowa. Our earliest members worshipped God—in the Dutch language, mind you—in a stark, one-room structure that also served as the town’s schoolhouse. These first congregants were a tough bunch; during their first few years on the Sioux County prairie, they endured grass fires, blizzards, locusts, and a smallpox epidemic. But their resolve, borne of a deep faith in God, did not abandon them. Expand

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