Jordan Sikkema served as the Volunteer Construction Coordinator for Lagniappe Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Bay St. Louis after Katrina, helping to rebuild 400 homes and coordinate 14,000 volunteers. Now he’s packing up to go give that same kind of help to earthquake victims in Haiti. Sikkema will be in Haiti during the next week with... Continue Reading

According to the estimates, the annual March for Life attracted over 250,000 people yesterday, drawing wide participation in the rally against legalized abortion. This year’s march began with prayer offered by Anglican Priest Martin Mims. “Forgive us for the many ways in which we have failed to respect the sanctity of every human life,” he... Continue Reading

SANTA ANA, Calif., /Christian Newswire/ — Two of the most notorious and restrictive regimes in the world top the Open Doors 2010 World Watch List (WWL) of 50 countries which are the worst persecutors of Christians. In the No. 1 spot for the eighth straight time is North Korea, the country where every religious activity... Continue Reading

Highlands Reformed Presbyterian Church is a mission church of the Rocky Mountain Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America in Sidney, Neb. The Rev. Norm Kjellsen, a graduate of New Geneva Seminary in Colorado Springs, is the church planting pastor. Nestled in the panhandle of Nebraska, 20 miles north of the Colorado border and 60... Continue Reading

CHICAGO, /Christian Newswire/ — A federal appeals court on December 30 rebuked the City of Chicago for clout-laden practices against a small Christian church. The three- judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of appeals delivered the decision in favor of the World Outreach Conference Center (WOCC) in its case that claimed Chicago officials violated... Continue Reading

In case you missed any of these, here are the top 10 most read stories from The Aquila Report during 2009: 1. Accident in Bristol 2. Siouxlands Presbytery Exonerates Member 3. Rocky Mountain Presbytery Adopts Pastoral Letter 4. Coral Ridge Faces Difficulties 5. Coral Ridge Search Committee Nominates Tullian Tchividjian 6. Rocky Mountain Resolution on... Continue Reading

Scott T. Brown, an advocate of church reformation and the strengthening of families, claims that modern youth ministry is “indisputably unbiblical.” Addressing Christian leaders and families at a conference on the Sufficiency of Scripture on Friday, Dec 11, Brown, director of the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches, asserted that the “philosophy and practice of comprehensive,... Continue Reading

The Reverend Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life Internationall, responded to the U.S. Senate’s passing of a massive $447 billion omnibus spending bill, within which lies almost $700 million for abortion and other population control measures. “The United States Congress has just signed millions of death warrants,” said Rev. Euteneuer. “They have opened up... Continue Reading

More than two-thirds of the abortion clinics in the United States have closed since 1991, according to a new report by a pro-life activist organization. There were nearly 2,200 abortion clinics in 1991, estimates Operation Rescue. Today, there are just 713 clinics. “The pro-life movement has made significant strides exposing and closing abortion clinics and... Continue Reading

Two organizations with a combined 109 years of ministry experience have joined forces to plant churches among the unreached peoples of the Americas. A merger between Ameritribes and Pioneers was finalized in the fall of 2009. Ameritribes’ mission to plant churches among Native peoples without access to the Gospel fits with Pioneers’ church-planting movement. The... Continue Reading