Final Years 1970-1985
The Eureka Classis started to not only fund foreign missions, but began to get serious about home missions, as well. The Eureka Classis began outreach to churches and groups that were not from the German Reformed heritage. The Eureka Classis in 1970 had 22 ministers and 23 congregations. By 1985 the Classis had grown to 32 congregations and 30 ministers. In 1985 the Classis voted to dissolve at their next meeting into four classes and form a Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States. The number of churches and the fact that the RCUS now reached from California to Florida aided that decision. A new constitution was approved, and in 1986 the Eureka Classis convened and dissolved into the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States.
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