Brouwer, Rev. Arie - 1935-1993

BROUWER, KORVER

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden-Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/15/2012 at 14:47:42

Sioux Center News, October 12, 1993

The Rev. Arie R. Brouwer, 58, of Teaneck, New Jersey, an Inwood native, former official of both the Nation and World Council of Churches, died Thursday, October 7, at his residence in Teaneck, due to cancer.

Services were at 2 P.M., Monday, October 11, at Christ Chapel, Northwestern College, Orange City, with the Rev. Nancy Van Wyk-Phillips and the Rev. Harold Brown officiating. Burial was in Memory Gardens, Sioux Center.

The Rev. Dr. Brouwer was born July 14, 1935, in Inwood. He married Harriet Korver, August 16, 1955, at Orange City. He began and ended his ministry in local churches in Michigan and New Jersey. He was best known as general secretary of the Reformed Church in America, 1977-1983, and the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA from 1985-1989. He served as deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches, 1983-1984. In 1992-1993 he served as interim pastor for the Community Church of Glen Rock, New Jersey.

Survivors include his wife; four children, Milton of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Charla of Lynchburg, Virginia; Patricia of Bogota, New Jersey, and Steven and his wife Margaret of Ann Arbor; five brothers, Jasper of Demotte, Indiana; Gerrit and Bert, both of Edgerton, Minnesota; Louis of Tyler, Minnesota, and Merle of Grosse Point Woods, Michigan; a sister Jeanette Dethmers of Holland, Minnesota and a granddaughter.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Edward.

Memorial donations may be directed to the World Council of Churches, Unit One, Worship Formation Dept., Box 2100 CH-1211, Geneva 2, Switzerland.