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

Here is your coffee break prayer list from Chris and Zhenya Bear, church planters in London. We try to keep it simple enough that you can pray for us on the way to the coffee machine. In our last newsletter we had so much we wanted to tell you about but could not go into... Continue Reading

Students at the University of Mobile spent Thursday and Friday this week reading aloud “The Chronicles of Narnia”. Narnia is the magical kingdom entered through a wardrobe closet in C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” the first installment of the “Chronicles of Narnia” books. A special invitation was given to children who... Continue Reading

Covenant Presbyterian Church is involved with a specialized para-church organization in Alabama known s Discovery Clubs. Many of the church members volunteer weekly in this ministry. One volunteer, Karen Edwards, encourages others to get involved: “Discovery Clubs is a ministry opportunity in public schools after regular school hours, showing and sharing the love of Christ... Continue Reading

“We are counting down the days until our upcoming mobilization for deployment to Kosovo,” says Maury Millican, a U.S. Army chaplain. “We have been resetting, reorganizing, retraining since our redeployment from Iraq in 2005.” Chaplain Major Millican’s unit, the 141st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, will command the multinational peace-keeping mission to Kosovo, an eastern European country... Continue Reading