Trauma on the Mission Field
05. March 2024
I was served a witness subpoena today. I know what you’re probably thinking—what an unsettling way to start an article for the RP Witness! It is ...
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The New Roman Roads
10. January 2024
We used to have to wait months to hear back from the board,” one former Reformed Presbyterian missionary shared with me as she reflected on what was ...
New and Crazy-Good
26. July 2023
Things have been crazy this year, but in the best possible ways. It’s May as I type this, and, so far this year, RP Global Missions board members ...
Learn, Go, and Share
16. January 2023
We’ve all heard the arguments for and against short-term missions. I don’t plan to rehash all of that. But let’s look closer at one of the ...
Caring for Missionaries
18. July 2022
“RP Global Missions isn’t good at missionary care.” These were the words of a member of the RPCNA who had spent time as a missionary with ...
A Call for Harvest Workers
11. January 2022
These past two years, the Lord has confirmed for RP Global Missions that, in spite of a changing world, our work is not yet complete. When many ...
Walking the Path to Missions
19. July 2021
I was fascinated by mission work very early in my life. Through high school and college, my fascination grew into a passion, and I knew God had set me ...
RP Missions—The Past and the Future
08. January 2021
As the second semester of my senior year at Geneva College approached, I, like many college students, felt the rising pressure of figuring out what I ...
The Weight of an Answered Prayer
29. January 2020
A year ago, I wrote an article pleading with you to pray to the Lord of the harvest for new members to be added to the South Sudan mission team. I ...
Introducing RP Global Missions’ Newest Missionaries
26. July 2019
Zach’s story in a nutshell I was blessed to be raised in a covenant home in Lisbon, N.Y. I was a mischievous child—goes along with my red hair! ...
A Bird’s-Eye View of the Harvest Fields
21. January 2019
As we fly over South Sudan, we are treated to a stunningly marbled landscape of greens and browns, speckled with trees and an occasional village or ...
India’s Song of Lament for Christ
27. January 2017
When you think of India, a host of pictures rush into your mind. Vibrant colors sprinkled and splattered as a gesture of communal celebration. ...
20 Years of RP Missions
15. July 2016
I first met Matt when I was in college. My roommate was preparing for an RP Missions trip to France, and Matt and I helped her sign and stuff ...
Words from Those Who’ve Served
15. July 2016
Jonathan Haney, pastor of the Manhattan, Kan., RPC, went to Uganda in 2007. “The trip to Uganda was used by the Lord to direct me into pastoral ...
Energy and Basic Skills, at Least
15. July 2016
Theresa Gazo Bloom went on her first RP Missions trip to Phoenix, Ariz., in the winter of 2004 when she had just turned 16. She helped out on the ...
From Formalism to Fruitfulness
04. January 2016
In Pakistan, “Christian” is a stamp on the passports. Christian children born to Christians in Pakistan are legally segregated at birth into the ...
A Bumpy Path to an Exact Fit
13. July 2015
It started with an innocent Facebook post. “Words cannot describe how much I want to go when I see they need an English literacy teacher at Cush ...
Great Healing in Sudan
05. January 2015
One day while walking to the market, Agau, a member of the Parot Church Health Group in South Sudan, came upon a woman crying outside her hut. Agau ...
Making Disciples in Aweil
01. August 2014
What are we doing?” is a question we have often asked ourselves as we serve in Aweil, South Sudan. However, it is really not a matter of what to do ...
Sudan’s Redemption Radio
01. February 2014
What is 79 meters tall, red and white, and speaks only the Dinka language? Rising high above the flat terrain, the tower of Weer Bei 99.9 FM can be ...