Willis P de BoerWillis Peter De Boer grew up in Grand Rapids and graduated from Calvin College Seminary with a three-year interruption to serve in the US Army Air Corps in Europe during World War II. He pastored the CRC Church in Washington, DC for four years; he thn served as CRC Home Missionary in Bradenton, Florida for two years. After a four-year break to earn a graduate degree in theology (in Amsterdam, The Netherlands) he returned to teach in the theology department at Calvin College for twenty-six years, retiring in 1988. For the next fifteen years he was available to serve in an interim capacity for churches without a pastor, and he enjoyed being back in the pastorate. --Grand Rapids Press Read More Read Less