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01. March 2005

House Passes Faith-Based Jobs Bill One day after President Bush delivered a speech pushing for congressional action on faith-based initiatives, the ...

Around the Church

01. March 2005

Southside (Indianapolis, Ind.) RPC Gordon Keddie, pastor Café Cubini transformed the Southside Indianapolis RPC’s fellowship hall into the high ...

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01. February 2005

Senators Reintroduce Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act On Jan. 26, pro-life lawmakers in the Senate reintroduced the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, a ...

Merger in Beaver Falls

01. February 2005

On Oct. 28, 1892, 58 members of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pa., took their certificates of membership and organized the ...

Around the Church

01. February 2005

Geneva (Beaver Falls, Pa.) RPC Bruce Backensto and Keith Black, pastors Following unanimous votes at simultaneous congregational meetings on Dec. ...

In Memoriam: Preston Carson

01. January 2005

Preston Adams Carson, 78, of Pinckneyville, Ill., was born on June 4, 1926, in Oakdale, Ill. He died Monday, Sept. 20, 2004, at Pinckneyville ...

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01. January 2005

Pro-Family Conservative Lands White House Post President Bush has tapped Claude Allen, currently deputy secretary of the Department of Health and ...

Compassion in Calamity

01. January 2005

On Sunday morning, Dec. 26, a small group of Christians gathered for worship in a church on the Kanchipuram shore of Southern India. Sometime around ...

Around the Church

01. January 2005

Hebron (Clay Center, Kan.) RPC Ronald Graham, pastor A men’s retreat was hosted by Shawnee last spring. Guest speaker Jim Carson spoke about ...

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10. December 2004

Military Agrees to Stop Sponsoring of Boy Scouts The Pentagon has agreed to cease direct sponsorship of hundreds of Boy Scout units on military ...

Around the Church

10. December 2004

Sterling, Kan., RPC Derek Miller, pastor Christy West, wife of Jason West, was received into membership upon profession of faith on Aug. 29, the day ...

Around the Church July 2002

01. July 2002

After fifty years in the ministry (nine of them spent in Syracuse), Rev. Kenneth G. Smith retired from the office of pastor June 30. A ...

News from the Quiet Giant

01. July 2002

On June 19, the China Gospel Fellowship declared that 34 of its evangelists mysteriously kidnapped two months earlier by a shadowy cult called Eastern ...

A Status Quo Synod?

01. July 2002

Many weighty issues were brought to the 2002 Synod, and delegates labored long hours to complete the docket. Despite many official challenges, very ...

Around the Church June 2002

10. June 2002

Synod of Greek Evangelical Church in Cyprus Holds Historic Meeting A quarter of a century ago, the last RPCNA missionaries left Cyprus. They said ...

Around the Church May 2002

13. May 2002

Los Angeles. Calif., RPC Kenneth Orr, pastor Pastor Ken Orr continues his sermons on Psalm 119, which teaches how to turn from worthless things to ...

Presbyterials Report on Recent Meetings

13. May 2002

Presbyterial of the Alleghenies The 117th annual convention of the Presbyterial of the Alleghenies met at the College Hill Reformed Presbyterian ...

Around the Church March 2002

25. March 2002

Sterling, Kan., RPC Derek Miller, associate pastor In January, an election of deacons was held. Elected were Ed Wilkey, Ed Webb, and Gunner Whorton. ...

Around the Church February 2002

25. February 2002

Quinter. Kan., RPC Steven Work, pastor Pastor Work and other pastors in the county conduct a worship service at the local nursing home every six ...

Around the Church January 2002

15. January 2002

Pastor Finley has completed a series of sermons from the book of Malachi. Several months earlier, the congrega­tion studied the book of ...