Rev. Joosten's Profile

Our Pastor, Rev. Meindert Joostens, by birth finds his roots in the "Article 31 Churches" in the Netherlands.  He immigrated with his parents to Southern California in 1958, where he would make his home with his family until he entered seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1970.  He received his education at Redlands Christian School and Graduated from Redlands High School in 1966, and subsequently, from the University of California (Riverside) in 1970.

After his first year of seminary, he married his sweetheart of four years, Beverly DeYoung, and settled down, raising a family of five children in the Grand Rapids area.  He graduated from seminary in 1973 and took his first charge to Faith Protestant Reformed Church in Jenison, Michigan.  He pastured this flock for five years and took a call to First Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, where he stayed for 17 years until moving to Lynden, Washington in 1995.

Our Pastor continues to preach to his congregation here, in the Lynden Fellowship Reformed Church.  He is a blessing to us with his Reformed preaching and teaching to this small flock, located here in Lynden.