This is a regular column of summaries of foreign missions news, currently titled "Missions News" in the print magazine; but it can also include other missions news from Around the Church in the print magazine.
Edgar Ibarra and John Edgar | July/August 2024 Issue
Christ builds His church both by bringing new saints into existing congregations and by beginning new ones. What follows is an account, not of the ...
Anonymous Author | March/April 2024 Issue
It can be hard to grasp the subject of persecution here in the West. We live at ease and in wealth like the world has never known. Only in the last ...
Heather H. | July/August 2023 Issue
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 ...
Heather H. | January/February 2023 Issue
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 ...
RP Global Missions Staff | January/February 2022 Issue
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 ...
Kobi Kothman | September/October 2021 Issue
Northern Nevada holds surprising beauty. The state is much more than the stereotypical arid deserts of Hollywood westerns and the bright casino lights ...
Heather H. | July/August 2021 Issue
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 ...
Heather H. | January/February 2021 Issue
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 ...
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! ...
Michelle LaMay, Harry Metzger, and Jen O’Neill | July/August 2018 Issue
When people think of the African jungle, images of wild animals, exotic birds, and snakes often come to mind, as well as thoughts of darkness, fear, ...
February 01, 2014
When Cush4Christ began its ministry in South Sudan in 2005, the region had been engulfed in civil war for decades and the future was very uncertain. A ...
January 06, 2014
Recent violence has resulted in the temporary departure of all RPCNA missionaries from South Sudan. Read more about that when the Jan./Feb. issue ...
November 01, 2012
They aren’t really having a mid-life crisis. But Travis and Gina Sheets want to put their vocational skills to work on the African mission field in ...
January 01, 2012
This work isn’t easy, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything It was a surreal moment. I had already been standing in the crowd for half an hour, ...
November 01, 2011
Pageland RP Mission Church Ian Wise, pastor On Saturday, Oct. 8, the Pageland Reformed Presbyterian Mission Church was organized in Pageland, South ...
August 11, 2011
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 ...
May 01, 2011
Johannes Geerhardus (J. G.) Vos was without question one of the most influential men in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America in the 20th ...
February 01, 2011
When was the last time you were at a church service and saw a grain offering given during the collection of the tithes and offerings? Here in Aweil, ...
February 01, 2010
Where in the world is Enid, Oklahoma? And why would someone from just outside New York City want to come to the Bible Belt to preach the gospel? But ...
January 01, 2009
Mission Work in Japan Witness readers have been aware of the fact that a new psalter has been a great need. The exciting part now is that the final ...
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 ...