Henry Beets

Henry Beets was born on Jan­u­a­ry 5, 1869, in Koe­dyk (near Alk­maar), Holl­and. He em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1886, and settled in Kan­sas. He graduated from Cal­vin Coll­ege in Grand Rapids, Mi­chi­gan in 1895, and was or­dained a min­is­ter in the Chris­tian Re­formed Church. He served as pas­tor of the Chris­tian Re­formed churches in Sioux Cen­ter, Io­wa, and in Grand Ra­pids, Mi­chi­gan. In 1920 he be­came sec­re­tary and di­rect­or of miss­ions for the Chris­tian Re­formed Church and also ed­it­ed the week­ly pub­li­ca­tion the Ban­ner and De Heid­en­wer­eld, a month­ly mis­sion­a­ry pub­li­ca­tion. He died on Oc­to­ber 29, 1947 in Grand Ra­pids, Mi­chi­gan.

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