The ARP, PCA, OPC, and URC are NOT members of either of these two organizations. New chapters of ecumenical history will be written should the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council — representing 80 million Christians from 108 countries — unite into one ecclesiastical body during an upcoming event at Calvin... Continue Reading

The folks at Marco Presbyterian Church (PCA) gave wings to their motto: “taking the gospel of Jesus, across the island, across the bridge and across the sea” The folks at Marco Presbyterian Church (PCA) gave wings to their motto: “taking the gospel of Jesus, across the island, across the bridge and across the sea” when... Continue Reading

A new Green Bay, Wisconsin PCA church is using a well-known Bible story as inspiration for its ministry — and its name. Jacob’s Well aims to share the gospel Jacob’s Well (http://www.jacobswellgb.org/) started holding public worship services a couple of months ago after members hosted smaller community Bible study sessions in private homes. It takes... Continue Reading

In Part 1 we discussed how the process of handling allegations against a Minister are dealt with in the ARP: http://bit.ly/c6vdAV. In Part 2 we will examine at least one of the key issues at stake, should the process move forward. In the middle of March, about two weeks after the ARP Synod action concerning... Continue Reading

The South Carolina Court of Appeals voted today to grant a partial approval to the request by the APR Synod to set aside portions of the Preliminary Injunction put into place by Judge Griffith on April 9th. (Full story on the Appeal is here: http://bit.ly/azuEBX Here is the report of today’s (Thursday, May 27) action:... Continue Reading

The 119th Stated Meeting of Covenant Presbytery met on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church in Germantown, TN The meeting was opened through worship and a sermon by TE William Spink, Jr. (Senior Pastor of the host church) preaching on 1 Timothy 4. The Moderator RE Paul Bush opened in prayer. The... Continue Reading

Churches can hire secret shoppers to parachute into the pews and generate a report based on their observations A graduate student at DePaul University, atheist activist Hemant Mehta avoided being a church hater by becoming a church rater. Enlisted four years ago on a lark to attend about a dozen Chicago-area churches and honestly rate... Continue Reading

The CRC allows congregations to make their own decisions about whether to ordain women. In addition, each classis is allowed to decide whether women officeholders from individual congregations may be delegates to classis. Opposition to women’s ordination has prompted a local church to pull away from a regional church group in its denomination. Second Reformed... Continue Reading

A touch that Hansen particularly appreciated was that the elders’ spouses were also interviewed to make sure they supported their husbands’ endeavor. Pastor E.C. Bell — with his trademark baseball cap and straight forward attitude — and two elders were officially installed as the executives of Chehalem Valley Presbyterian Church, a plant from Evergreen Presbyterian... Continue Reading

“…that until or unless there are constitutional amendments to change our BCO, each court is to be reminded to be faithful in upholding the constitutional views of the Church….” The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America will be meeting in Nashville, Tenn., June 29-July 2. This overture was adopted by the Northwest Georgia... Continue Reading