September, 2009 We may not be there in South Africa, but we continue to pray for our students and keep informed about them as best we can. There has been another graduation at the seminary. We rejoice for the graduates and ask that you pray for them as well. One of our recent graduates is... Continue Reading

North Point EPC is the latest church plant launch in the EPC. Their first meeting on Sunday, September 13, at the Covenant Christian Academy in Peabody, Massachusetts drew 90 adults and children. There are 2 unique features of this plant. First, a team of David Cook and Tom and Donna Penner is providing pastoral leadership... Continue Reading

OUT OF BOUNDS REPORT, OCTOBER, 2009 I am still teaching at The Bible Institute Eastern Cape. I am teaching three classes this semester: Intro to Biblical Ethics (3rd yr); NT and Social Identity 4th)’ Christ and Salvation (2nd). I have stepped down from doing the mission week twice a year. It got to be that... Continue Reading

The Community Presbyterian Church (PCA) of Moody, Alabama will for the third time this year sponsor a Community Christmas Bazaar at their church. The event will take place on Saturday, November 14. It is designed for artists and crafters to have a place to sell their hand-crafted/one-of-a-kind items and/or services. It is also designed to... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: Presbyterian Evangelical Fellowship (PEF) is one of the four organizations that worked together to start the Presbyterian Church in America. In addition to their decades of work doing and promoting evangelism in local churches in the US, they have also been involved as a sending agency for missionaries that sense a call to... Continue Reading

Hope Award: Campus Clubs teaches poor children about the value of work, and their own value in Christ: ‘Just because you’re in the ‘hood doesn’t mean the ‘hood is in you’ Jamie Dean, World Magazine MACON, Ga.—For some three dozen middle-school students packed into a tiny chapel attached to First Presbyterian Church (FPC) in downtown... Continue Reading

Reformed Church World Service is responding to this crisis with its partner, Church World Service. A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia’s island of Sumatra on September 30, striking near the provincial capital, Padang, a city of 900,00 people. A day later, a second earthquake struck. The quakes measured 7.6 and 6.8 on the Richter scale. The... Continue Reading

The following article is from the Reformed Church in America. We are witnessing the birth of two huge movements–church planting centers in churches and multi-site congregations. I’d like to focus on church planting centers. Over the past decade, a number of churches have initiated the beginnings of what could become one of the most significant... Continue Reading

Seven years ago, in 2002, as Sunnybrook Community Church in Sioux Center, Iowa, was searching for a new pastor, they reached a turning point. “They were a good church, but one without a heart for the lost, without a real desire to reach out,” says Jeff Moes, the church’s current senior pastor. “In that year... Continue Reading

Nine denominations banded together for a “building blitz” in the spring of 2009, fixing up 12 hurricane-stricken homes in Little Woods, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The homes were damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. “We were amazed at the extent of the damage to the New Orleans area, even three to... Continue Reading