East Leonard Christian Reformed Church
East Leonard Christian Reformed Church is a Reformed church at 1027 Leonard Street Northeast in Grand Rapids, MI 49505. It is one of 420 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 24 Reformed congregations in the city.
The mission of our church is based on Matthew 28:18-20 which states; God is reconciling the world to himself through the work of Jesus and the sending of His Spirit-filled church.
East Leonard Christian Reformed Church was founded in 1925 and has since been a foundation of faith for many in the Grand Rapids area.
Serving since 1925
1027 Leonard Street Northeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49505Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (616) 454-4444 · Website: https://elcrc.org/
East Leonard Christian Reformed Church is part of the Reformed (Continental) family of churches in The American Church Story. 244 congregations of the Reformed (Continental) family gather across Michigan — 994 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Continental Reformed churches gave the church some of its most comforting teaching — the Heidelberg Catechism begins by asking what your only comfort in life and in death is, and answers that you are not your own — along with a vision of every ordinary square inch of life as belonging to God. Their schools and colleges have taught far beyond their own numbers.
Find East Leonard Christian Reformed Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Watch
Latest from East Leonard's YouTube channel: East Leonard CRC Sunday Service 9/20/2026 (all videos).
The community around East Leonard Christian Reformed Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 39.1% (19.9–58.2%)
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Depression: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (14.8–34.1%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Food Insecurity: 19.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near East Leonard Christian Reformed Church
- Faith Church of Grand Rapids — 0.3 mi away
- Kidus Michael Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grand Rapids Pentecostal Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Northeast Community Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Church in Grand Rapids — 0.5 mi away
- Fourth Reformed Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Tabernacle Cogic — 0.5 mi away
- Check-In Dry Run — North — 0.6 mi away
- Madison Church North Campus — 0.6 mi away
- St Isidore Life Center — 0.7 mi away
More Reformed churches nearby
- Fourth Reformed Church — 0.5 mi away
- Free Reformed Church — 0.8 mi away
- Providence Reformed Church — 1.2 mi away
- Heritage Netherland Reformed — 1.3 mi away
- Beckwith Hills Christian Reformed Church — 1.4 mi away