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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">To the Ministers, Clerks, Administrators </FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Christian Reformed Churches of Australia </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>Greetings. In November I sent out the email as hereunder and to date not
had even one reply. I am assuming this is due to the fact that it was just prior
to the busy Christmas season thus the request has been put on the back burner
for then. However as the time for me to return to the Netherlands draws nearer
and also my visit to Mr Smallenbroek, I would ask that you consider my request
as soon as possible. It would be most disappointing if not one church in the
whole denomination responded to Mr Smallenbroek’s request. I understand that you
may be busy as all the new activities for 2014 commence, but could you then ask
an <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'">older <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>member in your congregation who knows the
history of your congregation who may like to correspond with me or even this
nice elderly man in the Netherlands. A retired elder in one church I spoke with
recently was able to give me information about his church dating back to
1957. Regards, Robert Spits </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=robertspits@gmail.com
href="mailto:robertspits@gmail.com">robertspits@gmail.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:16 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mins@crca.org.au
href="mailto:mins@crca.org.au">mins@crca.org.au</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Church seals </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">To the Ministers, Clerks, Administrators </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Christian Reformed Churches of Australia </FONT></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Greetings, I am writing to you with a request, however I
would like to give some background to this request. Earlier I had several
meetings with a man in the Netherlands who was for 30 or so years the archivist
for the Hervormed kerk in the Netherlands and after his retirement he continued
for 20 more years to collect and archive history/ info about protestant churches
of Reformed/ Presbyterian persuasion. He has written many articles for various
church and other publications in the Netherlands and also produced a
beautiful<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>bound book
entitled.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN><U><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">RELIGIEUZE CANON IN 25 VENTSTERS OP DE GODSDIENSTIG
GESCHIEDENIS VAN NEDERLAND </FONT></U></P>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
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</SPAN>IN RELATIE TOT </FONT></P>
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face="Microsoft Uighur"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>DE HERALKIEK EN SYMBOLIEK IN WAPENS EN KERKZEGELS</SPAN></I><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN></U></I><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></I></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">‘ALS BEELDRAGERS DER
GESCHIEDENIS’</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This man collects copies of church seals and has copies
of seals dating back to 1572 (Breda Nederland) in addition to collecting the
seal of a church he also tries to get the history of the church to go with a
seal.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thus he has thousands of pages of historical information
about protestant churches from all over the world (4500 seals) but very little
about the CRCA. He asked me <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>if I
knew of someone maybe a denominational archivist who<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>he could write to see if there are
congregations who have a church seal or logo and could he have a copy and if
possible some history about the seal.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
told him that I would make his request known to the churches via this medium and
see what response we get. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide me
with a copy of your churches’ seal or logo/letterhead that I could pass on to
him when I go to Nederland again in early 2014.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">If it is possible some history about the seal and also
about your congregation would be appreciated. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Perhaps your congregation has a local history
booklet<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in a soft or hard copy that
we could have, all hard copies would be returned.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">My contact details: Robert Spits P O Box 7543 Geelong
West<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Victoria 3218. <A
href="mailto:Robertspits@gmail.com"><FONT
color=#0000ff>Robertspits@gmail.com</FONT></A><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(03) 5277 2933 Mob phone 0418 520
205</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Microsoft Uighur'">With Christian greetings Robert
Spits</SPAN></P>
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