The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is pormoting its “every church plant a church” campaign to help bring more people to Christ. Launched this year by the denomination’s home mission arm, Mission to North America (MNA), the thrust was designed to create a grassroots church-planting culture in the PCA. “We’re not inventing any new methodology... Continue Reading

When the Rev. John Lolla began writing the history of his congregation at Plum Creek Presbyterian Church in 2003, he knew it would be a big project. But five years, five volumes and 2,200 pages later, “The Creek Runs Deep: Two Centuries of Salvation History,” has turned out to be more than the history of... Continue Reading

Rev. Don and Pam Kearby have been selected as “Ground Coordinators” for the June 2010 “Rocky Mountain Missionary Homecoming” preceding and overlapping by one day the EPC General Assembly meeting in Colorado. The Kearby’s are in the application process to become EPC World Outreach missionaries with Don serving as “Missions Advancement Associate” in the Western... Continue Reading

Hundreds of volunteers are needed to fill a variety of roles when the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) and the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) unite next summer in Grand Rapids, Mich., to form a new body representing millions of Reformed and PresbyterianChristians worldwide. This united body will be called the World Communion of Reformed... Continue Reading

The Rev. Glenn McDonald went to members of Zionsville Presbyterian Church at this weekend’s services with a surprising message: He was resigning from the church he founded 26 years ago because of sins in his life. But his failures, he explained, weren’t the things that typically trip up pastors and lead to emotional public confessions.... Continue Reading

The battle between the church authorities and an Edinburgh minister who refuses to live in his manse is set to continue despite a two-hour Kirk “trial”. The Rev John Munro, minister at Fairmilehead Parish Church, lost the vote when his case went before the Church of Scotland’s Commission of Assembly on Nov 18th. But the... Continue Reading

That’s the dilemma facing leaders of the United Methodist Church, and it may bring the long-standing practice of guaranteed jobs for pastors to an end. Since the 1950s, United Methodists and their ministers have had a deal: Ministers went where they were assigned, even if it meant leaving a church they loved, and the denomination... Continue Reading

A bust of Protestant reformer John Calvin was recently unveiled in a park in Havana, Cuba, as a way to cap a year-long celebration of Calvin’s 500th birthday. Calvinism plays a role in the religious life of Cuba in part because of the more-than-25-year work of the Cuban Christian Reformed Church. The Calvin celebrations were... Continue Reading

On the outskirts of Tivoli, NY, a small Hudson River village, sits a small, fairly nondescript church known simply as “the Red Church.” Although it’s never had its own congregation and it ceased housing a congregation of any kind more than a century ago, the former Dutch Reformed church has found a special place in... Continue Reading

The Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is being asked to approve a statement that “strongly denounces” the Caterpillar corporation for profiting from Israel’s use of its heavy equipment for “clearly non-peaceful purposes.” The church committee recommending the statement is not calling on the denomination to pull its investments from Caterpillar — an approach that drew heavy... Continue Reading