Riverside ARP Church

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546 Montrose St. N., Cambridge, Ont., N3H 2P6

519-653-7746

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Sundays: 9:30a.m. and 6:00p.m.

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Pastor John van Eyk’s Biography

After graduating from Redeemer Reformed Christian College in 1991 with a double major in History and Religion and Theology, our Pastor took a year off to build houses and begin a home. He began a home by marrying Lucy Pennings in August of 1992. Then began a three year honeymoon in Philadelphia where John studied at Westminster Theological Seminary. Although both John and Lucy grew up in the Free Reformed Churches of North America in John's final year their membership was transferred to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Philadelphia. John was taken under care and licensed by the Philadelphia Presbytery of the OPC and was later transferred to the Northeast Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. He was ordained in July 1995 after being called to be the Mission Developer of Riverside ARP Church in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. In December of that year their home expanded with the birth of Joshua Charis. Kristiana Grace was born on August 20, 2000, Micaiah Hesed on April 04, 2003, and Stephen Joram on December 23, 2005.

Until October 2005 John was the President of Cornerstone Bible Institute, a correspondence Bible course ministry to prisoners. Since 1997 John has been the editor of Canadian Associates, a magazine of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Churches in Canada. John is a member of the Canadian Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and is the chairman of the Presbytery’s Outreach Canada Committee, responsible for establishing new Churches in Canada.