Paul Kooistra is the former President of

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and

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. Kooistra is a

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and the past coordinator of

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, the missions agency of the

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(PCA). He was elected moderator of the 2008-2009

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of the PCA. On July 18, 2014, he was elected president of

, which is affiliated with the

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. He resigned in 2016.

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