As the St. Lawrence River flows to the sea, at certain points it divides two vast nations, Canada and the USA. But Christ’s Church has its own boundaries. The St. Lawrence Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) ignores the natural and political division by spanning both sides of the river to involve itself in Christ’s kingdom in both countries—in the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of New York, USA. This close connection to some of the American RP churches may have been the vital link that kept the two remaining RP churches in Canada alive.

This is the story of God’s work in preparing a man and his family for the ministry and a people for a church plant in a city where there had been no previous RP church, and in a country where the RP church seemed to be near total demise. This is the story of a church—the Ottawa RPC—that has recently celebrated 30 years since its beginning, as well as 30 years of faithful ministry by ...