Andrew P.C.
Puritan Board Junior
This is not a new problem. In the Dutch Reformed Churches, Article 52 of the Church Order of Dordt, dealt with a similar problem. The Dutch Reformed had Walloon [French] speaking congregations as well as Friesian, Flemish, German and Dutch speaking congregations. Among other things this article provided for translation of the decisions of the various language assemblies into the other languages. The tower of babble continues to haunt us.
Although, the Dutch Reformed churches were predominantly dutch. When they came over here they established the RCA (wasn't known as the RCA back then). Frisian and Dutch are closely related (Just don't tell them that, they get upset). They both speak Dutch. I did research on the Dutch Reformed churches in America and they were in the majority of being Dutch. The old phrase still rings in some of these churches today, "if you're not Dutch, you're not much". The CRC was a break off of the RCA (some congregations got involved in Masonic Lodges), and the two primary congregations to do so were the Holland, Michigan and Pella, Iowa congregations. I wrote about it awhile back. It's not very good but might be informative to some. The CRCNA: Part 2 – History 1 | TrigaBlog