March 09, 2009
A Blessing in my Childhood Last summer I had the wonderful opportunity of attending the RP International Conference in Grand Rapids, Mich. Coming ...
March 09, 2009
Growing up in the Winchester, Kan., RP Church, I was blessed from an early age to be surrounded by godly examples of Christian faith—from a loving ...
November 21, 2008
What is a denomination? People will answer this question in a variety of ways. Perhaps members of varying denominations will answer it differently. ...
November 21, 2008
In 1890, a member of the Wilkinsburg Reformed Presbyterian Church lost her hand. Unable to work and therefore unable to support herself, she applied ...
November 12, 2008
Jesus and the apostles were returning from a time of ministry, in which there had been “many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as ...
Stephanie Adjemian | August 08, 2008
“Every moment of life is a statement to God of what you think of Him.” Discomfort rippled through the crowd of 200 teenagers stacked in Calvin ...
Drew Gordon | August 08, 2008
I wondered at the Reformed Presbyterian International Conference this year how many photos were being taken. A lot more people have digital cameras ...
Kalli Sterrett | August 08, 2008
My husband Bill and I live in Larnaca, Cyprus, where Bill is pastor of the Trinity Christian Community Fellowship (TCCF) congregation of the Reformed ...
Heidi Filbert | July 08, 2008
Alice Price originally thought it would be a great idea for her 95-year-old mother, Frances Montini, to carry the torch during Geneva College’s ...
July 08, 2008
Geneva College held its 160th anniversary celebration Apr. 18-19. At the center of the celebration was the passing of a torch that traveled from Ohio ...
Patricia Boyle | June 08, 2008
March 15 was a warm spring day under a cloudless sky. The mimosa tree in the yard next to the Okamoto Keiyaku RP Church glowed with the brightest of ...
Grant Van Leuven | May 05, 2008
“In your heart, you know that God exists, don’t you?” This was the question that a seminary student asked his workout partner last year while ...
Jason Panella | March 03, 2008
The initial consideration hinged on water. Theresa Gazo had been accepted to several good colleges, including Penn State, Purdue University and Geneva ...
Irene Huizing | January 01, 2008
It was a January day when our daughter Heather shared with us that she had been asked to consider applying for the Cush4Christ mission in Sudan. ...
Margaret E. Hemphill | December 08, 2007
What possesses an administrator of a long-term-care facility to put staff and residents through a full-scale disaster drill that includes an ...
December 08, 2007
Twenty-four students currently at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) are either in the RPCNA or are in the process of entering the ...
Esther Howe and Maureen Halliday | November 01, 2007
Church planting is a stretching process. It means taking big leaps of faith, like moving to a new place and meeting new people. It also means taking ...
Steve McMahan | November 01, 2007
Noting that giving to the Reformed Presbyterian Mission and Ministry Fund (RPM&M) has essentially plateaued around $300,000 since the late 1980s, ...
Heidi Filbert | November 01, 2007
Since Semester in Scotland began in 2003, 18 students from the U.S. and N. Ireland have participated or are currently participating in the program. We ...
Brooke Prokopchak | October 07, 2007
The senior year of high school is supposed to be unforgettable—the carefree capstone to 13 years of education. But it often turns into the most ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...