Alleghenies

• Merger between the Geneva and First Beaver Falls congregations

• 2 new RP mission works—Purcelville, Va., and Gibsonia, Pa.

• Eastvale is without a pastor

Atlantic

• 2 new RP mission works—Providence, R.I., and Berkshire Mission in W. Massachusetts

Great Lakes-Gulf

• 15 students under care of the presbytery for pastoral training at the Second Indianapolis church building or at the RP Seminary

• Many changes in the pulpits in the last few months (Gordon Keddie to Southside Indianapolis, Andrew McCracken to Columbus, Rich Holdeman to Bloomington, Michael LeFebvre to Second Indianapolis)

Midwest

• New congregation, Salt & Light in Longmont, Colo.

• Regional Home Missionary Bob McFarland is evaluating an opportunity to begin a church planting work in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area

• Has 4 students whose theological work is being overseen by presbytery

• Clarinda, Minneola are without a pastor

Pacific Coast

• Los Angeles RPC celebrated its 100th anniversary.

• Heather Huizing is now serving as a foreign missionary in Sudan.

• Presbytery called attention to the vast area and population that is served by just 5 RP congregations.

St. Lawrence

• Syracuse-North work in New York will be called Messiah’s Church and perhaps be organized as a congregation in the fall

• Brad Johnston installed into the Walton, N.Y., RPC

• Vince and Julie Ward have been sent as missionaries to Sudan

Japan

• Katsunori Endo is the pastor of the Kita-Suzurandai congregation in Kobe, the first pastor in Japan who graduated from Kobe Theological Hall (see photo)

• Jim and Ruth Pennington have returned to the U.S., and so there is a need for a new missionary