Photos: Starting with Solemnity and a Smile

Lindsey DeKruif was installed as the new minister at Helderberg Reformed Church in Guilderland Center.

Lindsey DeKruif

The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Happy times: New Helderberg Reformed Church minister Lindsey DeKruif walks into the sanctuary on Sunday afternoon in Guilderland Center to be installed as the church’s new full-time minister, serving about 100 congregants. She hails from Minnesota and worked for a year as a pastoral resident at Calvary Reformed Church in Hagaman, New York and than two-and-a-half years as associate pastor at Christ Community Church in Clifton Park. One thing she really likes about the ministry, she said, is “how you get to be part of so many different parts of people’s lives.”

Lindsey DeKruif, Helderberg Reformed Church

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Solemn promise: Lindsey DeKruif, right, is installed as minister of the Helderberg Reformed Church on Sunday by Reverend Stacey Midge, left, an associate minister at the First Reformed Church of Schenectady. DeKruif recently married Stephen Dukenski; the couple will live in the Guilderland Center parsonage down the street from the church.