The History of Resurrection Life Church Rockford

In 2002, Pastor Doug and his wife Caryn felt a call to start a church in the Rockford area. With the full blessing of Pastor Duane Vander Klok of Resurrection Life Church in Grandville, where Doug and Caryn had both been serving, the church plant began with 35 people!  Our first service was held in Pine Island Elementary school. As God blessed the work and added people, the church outgrew several temporary facilities. In April of 2005, the church moved to its current location and now ministers to more than 1200 people on a weekly basis.

Resurrection Life Church- Grandville is the mother church of Resurrection Life Church International which is now an association of nearly 50 churches.  Resurrection Life has been in Grandville since 1967, when it was led by Pastor Jim Bugg, and called People's Church. When Pastor Bugg retired, he felt led to hand the leadership of the church over to Pastor Duane, who had just returned from Mexico where he was a missionary for several years. Pastor Duane felt led to pastor in West Michigan, and he knew that this was the church he was to pastor. Since Pastor Duane began pastoring the church in 1984, Resurrection Life has grown from several hundred to several thousand people under his leadership.