BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T205540Z UID:198-511862@secondreformed.org DTSTART:20260712T140000Z DTEND:20260712T150000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260630T161849 DESCRIPTION:We are so pleased to open the pulpit to several guests during t he summer while our pastors are away.\n\nElder Dawn Hoffman – July 5\, 2 026\nRev. Dr. Roland Ratmeyer – July 12\, 2026\nRev. Dr. Liz Testa – J uly 19\, 2026\nRev. Dr. Liz Testa – July 26\, 2026\nRev. Dr. Jodie Wu – August 2\, 2026\n\nElder Dawn Hoffman is a preaching Elder and is a me mber of The Second Reformed Church  of Hackensack.\nRev. Dr. Roland Ratme yer \nThe Rev. Roland Ratmeyer was born in Freeport\, Illinois.  He grad uated from Central College\, Pella\, Iowa\, in 1959 and from New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1963.  During seminary he served as an intern pa stor at the Hope Reformed Church in Los Angeles.\nHe was ordained in 1963 and he and his wife Una served as missionaries in the Lethrop Homes Public Housing Project in Chicago under the Board of Domestic Missions of the Re formed Church.  In 1967 he was installed as the pastor of the Church of t he Good News which he helped organize in Chicago. He received a Master of Theology degree from McCormick Seminary in 1972.  \nIn 1974 he became the pastor of the Brighton Heights Reformed Church on Staten Island\, New Yor k\, where he co-founded Project Hospitality\, an interfaith organization t o serve the needy.  He  received a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Ne w York Theological Seminary in 1982.  In 1988 he became the pastor of Old Bergen Church in Jersey City\, NJ\, a Union Reformed and Presbyterian chu rch.  \n From 2003 until the present he has served as the interim pastor in eight Reformed Churches in New Jersey and New York including Second Re formed Hackensack.\nRoland and Una have three married children and six gra nd children.  Roland enjoys running and biking.  He continues to run com petitively\, the NYC Marathon being one of his favorites.  In 2008 he com pleted a Sea-to-Sea bike tour to raise money to help end the cycle of pove rty.  He repeated this cross-country ride\, from Los Angeles to New York City in the summer of 2013.  He completed the  final leg of the ride thr ough Canada to again raise funds in support of poverty projects of the Ref ormed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church.\nRev. Dr. Liz T esta - Director of Equity-Based Hospitality and Women's Transformation and Leadership\, The Center for Church Multiplication and Ministry\, Reformed Church in America\nRev. Liz Testa is a pastor\, artist\, visionary leader \, innovator and community builder who is passionate about encouraging and equipping others to live into their God-given gifts and callings. She cur rently serves the Reformed Church in America (RCA) as the denominational e xecutive leader for Women's Transformation and Leadership. In this culture -shifting role\, she helps the RCA pursue a vision for the full inclusion of women's gifts and influence in the church and beyond. Her team designs and leads a variety of processes to support women's spiritual and leadersh ip growth as well as inviting faith communities to create spaces where hea lthy male-female ministry partnerships can develop and thrive. Rev. Testa serves on the New Brunswick Theological Seminary Board of Trustees and is a doctoral student in Transformational Preaching. She is honored to be a 2 022 recipient of Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE) International's Li fetime Achievement Award for her sacrifice\, courage and vision in advanci ng the biblical basis for gender equality.\nRev. Dr. Jodie Wu  serves as co-pastor of Bogart Memorial Reformed Church\, Bogota\, NJ LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T161849 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Summer Guest Preaching Schedule URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.secondreformed.org/events/summer-guest-preaching- schedule/2026-07-12 ATTACH;FILENAME=rev_jodie_wu.jpg;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.c loudfront.net/2026/06/30/17/38/09/587a6c10-2548-49cc-9265-b668895290c6/rev _jodie_wu.jpg ATTACH;FILENAME=roland_ratmeyer_landscape.jpg;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dq 5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2026/06/30/17/38/10/0e4df0cc-cf87-4289-94a1-68c 4979fb35f/roland_ratmeyer_landscape.jpg ATTACH;FILENAME=rev_liz_testa.jpg;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0. cloudfront.net/2026/06/30/17/38/10/ad1e9b8f-bde5-4898-bda4-576f90d2cdad/re v_liz_testa.jpg ATTACH;FILENAME=dawn_hoffman_ls.png;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0 .cloudfront.net/2026/06/30/17/38/10/5f500fcd-5608-4537-b553-fcf5bb9393db/d awn_hoffman_ls.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR