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RP Students Find a Home at Geneva

Jason Panella | March 03, 2008

Agency Features /  Geneva College 

The initial consideration hinged on water. Theresa Gazo had been accepted to several good colleges, including Penn State, Purdue University and Geneva ...


A Bridge in Selma

Drew Gordon | February 02, 2008

Theme Articles 

This is the story of a small town and a small church denomination that changed history. I’m not speaking of the headline-grabbing kind of change, ...


The Road to Understanding

Drew Gordon | February 02, 2008

Viewpoint 

There are times when one simply has to admit ignorance. My family and I were enjoying the scenery on a peaceful country highway in Alabama. Mapquest ...


Stories Worth Telling: Three Selma Women

Drew Gordon | February 02, 2008

Theme Articles /  Interviews 

The Witness interviewed three members of Selma RPC in preparing this issue. Some of their life story is printed in below in their own words, and other ...


Three Selma Women Speak

February 02, 2008

Theme Articles /  Interviews 

Protests Mrs. Brown: [The marching] started with the ministers. The local ministers got together and decided to invite Dr. King here because he had ...


What Has Francis Schaeffer to Do With Al Gore?

Micah Humphreys | January 01, 2008

Theme Articles 

What is a Christian view of nature? Does thinking correctly about creation assist us in answering the doomsday predictions of global warming ...


Being a Missionary’s Mom

Irene Huizing | January 01, 2008

Agency Features /  Global Missions 

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. ...


This Is Just a Drill!

Margaret E. Hemphill | December 08, 2007

Agency Features /  RP Home 

What possesses an administrator of a long-term-care facility to put staff and residents through a full-scale disaster drill that includes an ...


The Singing Savior

Edmund P. Clowney | December 08, 2007

Theme Articles 

Two Auca Indians sang a haunting chant of worship to God before a great missionary congress in Berlin. One of the singers had driven his spear into ...


Revisiting Sanctification

Russ Pulliam | December 08, 2007

Theme Articles /  Reviews 

Sanctification may be the one area of systematic theology that needs revisitation in each generation. Other topics pretty well get settled in certain ...


Meet the RP Students

December 08, 2007

Agency Features /  Seminary 

Twenty-four students currently at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) are either in the RPCNA or are in the process of entering the ...


Women Working in God’s Providence

Esther Howe and Maureen Halliday | November 01, 2007

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

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 ...


Synod Approves ‘Step Up’ Goals

Steve McMahan | November 01, 2007

Agency Features /  Finance 

Noting that giving to the Reformed Presbyterian Mission and Ministry Fund (RPM&M) has essentially plateaued around $300,000 since the late 1980s, ...


Comments from Semester in Scotland Participants

Heidi Filbert | November 01, 2007

Theme Articles /  Agency Features /  Global Missions 

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 ...


Meeting a Ministry Need in Scotland

November 01, 2007

Theme Articles 

Short-term mission trips are nothing new. But transplanting one’s family to a different part of the globe for a period of several years is becoming ...


A Welcome Approach to Admissions

Brooke Prokopchak | October 07, 2007

Agency Features /  Geneva College 

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 ...


Toward a Continuum of Care

July 01, 2007

Agency Features /  RP Home 

T hroughout the Bible, God calls His people to remember that He acts in history and knows the end from the beginning. We can exclaim with the ...


Setbacks and Surprises

Jennifer Herron | July 01, 2007

Theme Articles 

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so He giveth His beloved sleep. —Psalm 127B, The Book of ...


Seeking the Lost Coin

Stacie Shopp | July 01, 2007

Theme Articles 

At an international missions conference last year, I sat to chat with a gal my age who worked with women in Greece. I remember thinking, What does her ...


Presenting the Gospel

John M. L. Young | July 01, 2007

Theme Articles 

This is an excerpt of a classic book, The Motive and Aim of Missions, which has just been released in a second edition by Crown & Covenant ...