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Elim Christian Services company history timeline

1948

Founded in 1948, by Reformed Dutch church members, Elim Christian Services now serves more than 800 individuals through its therapeutic, vocational, and educational programs.

Elim Christian School began in 1948 as the Chicago Christian School for Handicapped Children, with the intent to provide for children with both mental and physical disabilities.

1949

. John L. Shaver, "The Churches of Chicago North," Banner, May 20, 1949, 84; "Director's Report," Elim Annual Report, Oct.

1952

In 1952, Elim Christian School was named a benevolent cause of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and continues to maintain a close relationship with that denomination.

1953

The Children's Retreat and Training School at Pine Rest Christian Psychiatric Hospital in Cutlerville, Michigan, did not open until five years later, in 1953.

From 1953 on, Elim was careful not to invade the domain of the Children's Retreat; it referred all noneducable youngsters outside of Chicago to the Michigan institution.

1994

And it is more than an oasis. "To say that Elim is an oasis is a gross understatement," declared executive director George Groen and board president Henry Kamp in 1994. "It is a haven in the midst of a flawed and dysfunctional society where obscenity is near the norm."

2004

Source: Richard Harms, comp. and ed., Historical Directory of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (Grand Rapids: 2004), 276.]

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