He serves as president of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Board of Foreign Missions and as suffragan bishop for the REC's Missionary Diocese of Cuba.
[1] Boonzaaijer graduated from Kalamazoo's Christian Reformed school system and enrolled in Western Michigan University in 1986.
In 1994, after completing a curacy and spending a year as a cross-country truck driver, Boonzaaijer began his first pastorate in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
[3] Boonzaaijer entered the Reformed Episcopal Church in 2002, serving as a teacher and assistant rector of Good Shepherd REC in Tyler, Texas, under Walter Banek.
[3] At the invitation of Chapel of the Cross member Michael C. Burgess, Boonzaaijer was guest chaplain in the U.S. House of Representatives on June 20, 2014.