The RPCNA Home Mission Board (HMB) held their fall meeting in Minneapolis Sept. 29–Oct. 3, including a church planters conference incorporated into John Piper’s Desiring God national conference. It is always exciting to get the church planters together (with their wives) and hear what God is doing in building His church through them.

We were well accommodated. Meals were often the times we caught up on each other’s lives and got acquainted with new friends. Minivans transported us to and from the conference center—another opportunity to talk and share stories.

Friday night, all day Saturday, and Sabbath morning were taken up with gatherings at the Convention Center in Minneapolis. The theme was “The Supremacy of Christ.” We were challenged to think about “The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World” with speakers stressing themes of truth, the gospel, the church, love, and joy. Speakers included David Wells, Voddie Baucham, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll, D. A. Carson, and John Piper. Some ideas brought out were the futility of ministry to people today if the centrality and uniqueness isn’t in Christ; we are between the “already” and the “not yet”; we need to be “possessed” by the supremacy of Christ. Ours is a psychological need because we have a fear of being unsuccessful. What we see in our culture are the latest futile tries to change what Christ did on the cross. John Piper’s sermon on “The Supremacy of Christ and Joy in a Postmodern World” can still be heard or read at his web site: www.desiringGod.org.

Sabbath evening the group gathered at the hotel after dinner for a fruitful time of psalm singing, devotions, sharing of ideas learned, discussion of ways the HMB can help the church planters better, and prayer. Please remember these participants in your prayers so they can incorporate ideas reaped at this conference in their ministries.