You may be wondering what to expect this July when your minivan, maxi-van, micro-bus, or sedan drives onto the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Perhaps you have never attended an International Conference of the RPCNA and wonder what it is all about.

Since 1962, when Synod’s Board of Christian Education recommended to the church that a national convention meet concurrently with Synod at Northfield, Minn., the Reformed Presbyterian Church has assembled in a denomination-wide conference to encourage and strengthen its members in their union with Christ. Long before that, the church’s young people’s societies and women’s organizations had the practice of assembling at a broad, denominational level to pursue a program of worship, teaching, and fellowship. At these meetings, God has comforted, called, and converted many people in our branch of the church today.

At the most recent international conference in 2012, about 2,100 people attended, a ...