Beginning with Donald Bruggink's own notion that -history is a tool for understanding, - the dozen essays in this volume are tools for understanding four areas of his life and his fifty-five years of ministry. While all the contributors to this volume have benefited from Bruggink's friendship, teaching, and ministry, the first and last essays are by the contributors he has known longest, who had a formative role in his life -- Eugene Heideman and I. John Hesselink.
Contributors: - George Brown Jr.
- Laurie Z. Baron
- James Hart Brumm
- Kathleen Hart Brumm
- John W. Coakley
- Russell L. Gasero
- Eugene Heideman
- I. John Hesselink
- Allan Janssen
- Mary L. Kansfield
- Normal Kansfield
- Jacob E. Nyenhuis
- J. Jeffery Tyler
- Dennis Voskuil
