The Heritage Fund: A Brief History

In 1992, during a time of severe financial stress, a small group of Christian Reformed Church members was convened by the executive director of ministries to help establish a Fellowship Fund. Later, the Fellowship Fund became the CRC Foundation and was incorporated as a 501-3(c). The CRC Foundation and its funds supported programs and needs that were uniquely denominational in scope. Since its inception, the fund has distributed the resources it has received to the various ministry offices, agencies, and institutions, and even our churches of the CRCNA or closely affiliated organizations.

In 2017 the CRC Foundation was closed. The Fund was renamed the Heritage Fund and continued to provide sustainable resources to ministries of the CRCNA and the Churches of our denomination.

In 2023, the Heritage Fund was relaunched as the CRCNA’s legacy giving society with the help of our ministry partners; Barnabas Foundation and Christian Stewardship Services.

The CRCNA has worked with these ministry partners (Christian Stewardship Services in Canada and the Barnabas Foundation in the USA) since the mid 1970’s. They help us to identify creative giving solutions and manage the arrangements that are required to facilitate these gifts.

The Heritage Fund seeks to build sustainable funding sources to serve the ministry of the CRCNA for many years to come. Become a member of the Heritage Circle by setting up a legacy gift today!