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Chung On Taai

Nathaniel Pockras | April 01, 2022

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During the final years of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, our South China Presbytery was comprised of several ministers: some American and ...


Transforming a State

Nathaniel Pockras | March/April 2022 Issue

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For the past few decades, Indiana has been one of the RPCNA’s strongest regions, but nearly all the Indiana congregations have been founded in ...


The First Foreign Mission

Nathaniel Pockras | February 02, 2022

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The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) first sent foreign missionaries to Syria before the American Civil War, and mission work in ...



Virginia Churches

Nathaniel Pockras | December 06, 2021

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If you look at a map of Reformed Presbyterian congregations in the eastern and central U.S., you’ll note that many are concentrated in the southern ...



In Search of Church Cemeteries

Nathaniel Pockras | October 04, 2021

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Many older Reformed Presbyterian churches have their own cemeteries, and several other cemeteries preserve the memories of congregations that no ...



The Synod of a Century Ago

Nathaniel Pockras | August 02, 2021

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Let’s look back a century at the 1921 meeting of Synod. Delegates met at the Pittsburgh, Pa., church building, located downtown on Eighth Street ...




Magazines in the RPCNA

Nathaniel Pockras | April 01, 2021

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We’re familiar with the Reformed Presbyterian Witness today, but what do we know about previous RPCNA magazines? Several short-lived periodicals in ...