Jonathan Parnell | November/December 2020 Issue
I was sitting at a table with two other trained Christian conciliators listening to a room full of church leaders try to describe the situation at ...
Vanessa Le | September/October 2020 Issue
As parents in the 21st Century, we get bombarded from all sides on how to raise our kids: “Do this, don’t do that.” In the secular world, it’s ...
Heidi Filbert | July/August 2020 Issue
“Dessert tonight is a riddle,” I told the college students as they came in the door. We had made cutout cookies of teddy bears, rocking ...
Bill and Rose Weir | May/June 2020 Issue
Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you” (Ex. 20:12). Caring for your father or ...
Sue Pikarsky | March/April 2020 Issue
The Messiah’s Quilter Bees, the quilting ministry of Messiah’s Church in Clay, N.Y., sprang to life in an unusual, circuitous way. I had been ...
Philip Pockras | January/February 2020 Issue
Here we are in the beginning of 2020. It’s the time when a lot of people, bloated and sedentary, are thinking of New Year’s resolutions. Some of ...
Dianne Schaefer | November/December 2019 Issue
Coffee on the Corner is an outreach ministry the Orlando, Fla., RPC began in January. It was the outworking of a heart for the lost in response to ...
Nathan Eshelman | September/October 2019 Issue
It is hard to dress up milk and meat in one dish,” wrote the Scottish commissioners of the Westminster Assembly to their home churches in Scotland. ...
Kim Phillips | July/August 2019 Issue
In 2005, the White Lake, N.Y., RPC saw a need in the community for a food pantry. A small committee got together and the dream started to become a ...
Tabatha Stivason | May/June 2019 Issue
I have always loved crafts. So when my family initially arrived in Gibsonia, Pa., I organized an informal night where people could come and share a ...
Sharon McKissick | March/April 2019 Issue
The house has been vacuumed and dusted. Lovely china, folded cloth napkins, and a centerpiece of fresh flowers adorn the table. The kitchen overflows ...
Dawn Claerbaut | January/February 2019 Issue
It is hard to believe that 18 years have gone by since my children were born. The trials, grief, and frustrations of trying to conceive children were ...
Laura Noell | November/December 2018 Issue
Crumble Coffee & Bakery is in the university town of Bloomington, Ind. Crumble’s original location, opened in 2013, is on the southeast side of ...
Emily Hamer | September/October 2018 Issue
When I tell people that we’ve moved to a 35-acre farm on the dusty Colorado prairie, I’m often met with carefully hidden surprise and the unspoken ...
Bryan and Olivia Schneider | July/August 2018 Issue
It is amazing how God works things out in His providence. We never planned on living as long as we have in Beaver Falls, and we never planned on ...
Three adult sisters…living together. We realize we are an oddity. It doesn’t help that all of our first names start with the same letter. For ...
John M. Mitchell | March/April 2018 Issue
Why collect communion bread recipes? When I first became responsible for providing communion bread for my congregation, I took the obvious and easy ...
Brian and Heather Panichelle | January/February 2018 Issue
During a conversation around the table at a large family gathering, one of your covenant children begins to make noises, subtle at first, then ...
Cory Veldhuizen | November/December 2017 Issue
I first heard the letters GBS put together in the emergency room of Aultman hospital on Jan. 26. While a neurologist looked for a reflex hammer, my ...
Dan and Stephanie Yost | September/October 2017 Issue
Vintage Cowboy Cottage (VCC) is a bed & breakfast (Airbnb style) we started in 2016. Stephanie has always wanted to have a B&B, and, because ...
Location: Colorado Springs, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1981 Membership: 101 communicant; 56 baptized Pastor: Ed Blackwood Website: ...
This article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of God Breathed: Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself. I will never ...
In the early years of the Witness, it was published weekly, and correspondents reported many small events in their congregations. Here are some news ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...