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Church Planting by Veterans

January 01, 2012

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

The RPCNA Home Mission Board has noticed in the past few years a trend toward more seasoned pastors going into church planting. We decided to explore ...


Northminster RPC

December 01, 2011

Congregation of the Month 

Location: Suwanee, Georgia Presbytery: Great Lakes-Gulf Organized: 2010 Membership: 27 communicant; 14 baptized Pastor: Dr. Frank J. Smith Look at a ...


A Different Type of Classroom

Kenneth G. Smith | December 01, 2011

Series 

Discipling people as Jesus did means going beyond four walls Jesus Instructs the Twelve What a wonderful thing that we have four gospels accounting ...


What Does a Goal of Unity Mean?

December 01, 2011

Theme Articles /  Agency Features /  Synod 

Reformed and presbyterian council wrestles with some big questions While NAPARC isn’t a household word, that group of 12 Reformed and ...


What is a Successful Church?

December 01, 2011

In September 1540, Spanish conquistador Garcia L’opez de C’ardenas and a handful of his comrades happened upon something no other European ...


Walking in All Seasons

Karen Reyburn | November 01, 2011

Theme Articles 

Karen Reyburn doesn’t just blog about her life; she blogs as she changes her life My life tends towards the sedentary. I work from home, I live in ...


Signing Up for Deep Study and Hard Work

November 01, 2011

Agency Features /  Seminary 

Poll all seniors in high school about their definition of summer fun, and spending three weeks in deep theological study and performing manual labor ...


New RP Students

November 01, 2011

Agency Features /  Seminary 

Fall is a time of change in Pennsylvania. God directs the trees to take on new hues. Some animals prepare for hibernation, while others begin long ...


Jesus’ Dedication and Leadership

Kenneth G. Smith | November 01, 2011

Theme Articles /  Series 

The 13th Student Learning discipleship from Jesus’ example to the Twelve (part 3) Many years ago my wife and I were invited to see a film called ...


Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church

October 01, 2011

Congregation of the Month 

Location: Aurora, Ohio Presbytery: Alleghenies Organized: Dec. 2009 Membership: 18 communicant; 8 adherents Pastor: Vacant Web Site: Under ...


The 13th Student

September 09, 2011

Theme Articles 

Fellowship Leads To Discipleship Why was I so late in learning about Christian discipleship? I’ve mused over that question many times, for I was ...


Lessons I’ve Learned on the Job

September 09, 2011

Interviews /  Agency Features /  Finance 

I was hired by Synod’s Board of Trustees in February 2010 to be the new denominational controller. I work in the Trustees Office with RPCNA ...


How the Internet Is Changing Our Brains

September 09, 2011

Reviews 

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr, Norton & Company. Reviewed by Pastor Barry York. These pages of the ...


A Family of Families

September 01, 2011

Congregation of the Month 

Immanuel (Lafayette, Ind.) RPC Organized: Feb. 2, 2007 Communicant Members: 42 Baptized Members: 42 Pastor: Jared Olivetti Web Site: ...


Life at Home in South Sudan

August 11, 2011

Agency Features /  Global Missions /  News /  Missions News 

I begin this article with the title, hoping for some inspiration. I realize that a great road has been traveled in order to join the words “ at ...


Why RPs Should Pursue Social Justice

Rut Etheridge III | August 11, 2011

Theme Articles 

Imagine a surgeon—let’s call him Dr. Shirk—looking on as a team of other surgeons operates on a terminal patient. Deeply distressed at what he ...


Give Us More of Your Spirit

August 01, 2011

Agency Features /  Synod 

Preserving, maintaining, and proclaiming at the Synod of the RPCNA The Reformed Presbyterian Church gives thanks to the Lord for His grace and power ...


Proclaim God’s Truth

August 01, 2011

Congregation of the Month 

Southside RPC Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Presbytery: Great Lakes-Gulf Organized: Jan. 12, 1979 Membership: 149 communicant, 55 baptized Pastors: ...


‘I Am Not My Own’

July 01, 2011

Testimonies /  Agency Features /  Global Missions 

The Early Years Orlena was born Jan. 15, 1922, in Sparta, Ill., the daughter of Thomas Lynn and Marguer-ite McMurtry. When Thomas married Marguerite, ...


Ministering to the Military

July 01, 2011

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

The Apostle Paul’s being chained to a soldier in Rome towards the end of his ministry must have made for intimate conversations, because with that ...