Married couples are often asked how they met. Answers will come forth with delight—answers that are filled with fond memories and meaningful detail. Although every couple has details unique to their love story, there are commonalities in the marriage journey. Typically, for example, somebody other than the couple was instrumental in bringing them together and in helping their relationship grow.

Similar questions can be asked of you, as part of the bride of Christ: “So, how did you meet the Savior?” Think about what your answer would be. Look with eagerness into your past and remember the important and meaningful details of how you became a child of God. Recall to mind who the Lord used in your journey to salvation and Christian growth—covenant parents, a Christian friend, a missionary, a teacher, a minister, an author, an elder. Think about those who prayed for you or gave their time and resources so you would hear the Word of life, love the Lord of life, and grow in the way of life.

These aspects of your redemption journey are common to believers around the world. God puts people in the lives of His children to guide them to the truth of His Word and to help them grow in Him. How does He do this? In His mercy and providence, God often uses small means to accomplish big purposes. He will often choose “the foolish things of the world to confound the wise…and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty” (1 Cor. 1:27).

The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) falls squarely into this category of small means that God uses to spread the gospel, to bring His children into His kingdom, and to nurture them. The RPCNA is a mustard-seed denomination in terms of ministry and missions; but, by God’s own good pleasure, He has caused much fruit to be borne in His kingdom, nationally and internationally, through the work of the RPCNA.

The church’s holy calling is indicated in verses like these: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” “How shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?” “Study to show thyself approved unto God.” “Visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.” “Speak thou the things which become sound doctrine.” “Come over…and help us.” Obeying this holy calling requires the time that God gives us, the abilities God gives us, and the resources God gives us. It also requires organization so that all things are “done decently and in order” (1 Cor. 14:40).

Reformed Presbyterian Missions and Ministries (RPM&M) is the vehicle in our mustard-seed denomination that provides this organization. Gifts given to RPM&M help support the Board of Education & Publication, Geneva College, the Home Mission Board, RP Global Missions, the Reformed Presbyterian Home, the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Graduate Study Committee, the Committee for Vital Churches, the East Asia Commission, and the Youth Ministries Committee of Synod.

God has chosen to bless the funds that you give to the RPM&M so that the gospel is preached locally and globally; godly books are printed; the needy are cared for; men are trained to be undershepherds; little children are taught in the truth; young men and women are trained in Christian maturity; older saints are strengthened; and the kingdom of God shines brightly in a dark world.

For detailed information on the above agencies and their involvement in the growth and spiritual health of the body of Christ, please go to ReformedPresbyterian.org and click on Agencies and the RP Trustees.

Please be in prayer for the RPCNA. Pray that God will continue to bless the resources given to RPM&M, that the eyes of the blind will be opened, and that believers will grow in grace. Then these much beloved will also have a love story—the love story—to recall and share.

Mary Brown lives in Nunn, Colo., with her husband, Clyde, and their four children, Charity, Timothy, Hope, and David. She is a member of Laramie, Wyo., RPC, where her husband serves as an elder.