...talk about coincidence..he came from grand rapids...as did my parents..& he eventually married & bought a house almost directly behind my parents house, one street over ...his parents were music professors at calvin college...& for a few months we were in a christian youth group together in bellflower..unfortunately, he was always a little supercillious..& I don't socialize w/ him anymore..I think he gossiped about me as well..shame shame..but I still drop them a letter now & then & a christmas card every year, & pray for him & his wife leah (from edgerton, mn...another town connected to my family..my grandfather was pastor at a crc in edgerton for a while...tiny town it is..my aunt still lives there...the dekam family..sell fertilizer & maybe eggs as well...small world ..the dutch crc ..an ethnic church ..but is it still truly christian ?