2016 den Dulk Lectures with CJ den Dulk

The Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry took place on March 29-31 in the WSC chapel and featured Rev. CJ den Dulk, a WSC alum ('90), former WSC board member and Pastor of Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Sparta, MI. This was the first time that a den Dulk has actually been the speaker for the den Dulk Lectures! His three lectures were entitled “The Grace of the Doctrines,” “Feed the Sheep and the Lambs,” and “It is a Privilege to Care for God's Church.”

You can view more photos from the three-day event on our facebook page. The audio of each of his lectures will be posted on our website soon!


Rev. CJ den Dulk received a B.A. from Calvin College in Greek and a M.Div from Westminster Seminary in California (WSC) in 1990.  After attending Calvin Seminary for one year and doing a one year internship, Rev. den Dulk was ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in 1992 and has served Trinity Christian Reformed Church as their senior pastor for the past 25 years.  He is involved with the prison ministry at the Kent County Jail.  His love for doing prison ministry began while at Westminster.  He has been a speaker at the Christian Reformed Conference Grounds in Grand haven, Michigan, Mount Hermon Family Camp in Santa Cruz, California, spoken at the Reformed Youth Services (RYS) Conventions as well as LOGOS, a conference for Post High students, and has gone to Eastern Ukraine with Rev. Joel Nederhood 13 different times speaking at the Power in the Pulpit Conference.  He has served on the board at Westminster Seminary California for 2 terms.  Pastor CJ has been blessed to have a number of seminarians from WSC serve as interns as well as members from our congregation go to WSC for education.