Pastor, Seminary Professor, Author, Trainer, Speaker
Dr. DeVries, D.Min, Ph.D., is an ordained minister and seminary professor in the Christian Reformed Church and has served two congregations, the first in Boca Raton, FL, and the second in Big Rapids, MI. After ten years in church and university campus ministries, he served on the faculty of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, MI for twenty-eight years where he taught courses in the educational ministry of the church and was director of the two-year Master of Arts degree programs. He has experienced the death of both his parents, two older brothers, and his first wife after 28 years of marriage.