PRAYING FOR MY BELOVED CRC MEMBERS & CALVIN COLLEGE et al to NOT ACQUIESCE TO FAR-LEFT LIBERALISM TO TRY TO BE ‘COOL’:

JESUS SAID: “I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

And for their sakes ..."

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Gord Buys Obituary (03/04/1941 - 12/30/2025) - Grand Rapids, MI - Grand Rapids Press

https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/grandrapids/name/gordon-buys-obituary?id=60456294 


Condolences to the Buys family✝️🙏❤️ . I originally met Gord in the lobby of the Calvin Library in the early 90's where he had a table promoting short-term missions for CRC . He was easy to talk to and he encouraged me to consider it, and I did. And then shortly later I signed up for a short-term summer mission in the Philippines . 

Actually I didn't know I would be in the Philippines, I just signed up to be sent and it turned out to be the Philippines. Which was a great experience- very spiritually enriching and my first real formal opportunity to be an evangelist with a team

Since then I went on to become a teacher and then also seminary & to become a missionary and evangelist myself. Praise the Lord ✝️. 

God bless Gord Buys & family. 
Keep the Faith ☝️🕊️

John