While walking the streets of her neighborhood, Anna Jackson noticed things she hadn’t before. What she saw led her congregation to make some changes. Anna Jackson’s daily walk helped her igreja get reacquainted with its neighborhood Queens Reformed Igreja has sat on the same street corner in its New York borough since 1858. It’s the oldest igreja in what has…
…I longed to hear were no longer audible.” Similarly, Kinne mourned her sudden inability to participate fully in the life of her igreja, Reformado Igreja of Syracuse (RCS), in New York, where she has worshiped her entire life and currently serves as an elder. Within the sanctuary, which is equipped with a hearing loop, Kinne could hear anything amplified by…
…their life from the inside out. Another less visible recipient of the benefits of this experience is the igreja that HIS Work Camp overwhelms for seven days. Congregations in the Chilhowee Baptist Association have a huge passion to respond to disasters and human hardships around the world. One of these congregations is East Maryville Baptist Igreja, which hosted our group…
…the Reformed Igreja in America. And they departed with no letter of blessing. The General Synod of the Reformed Igreja in America has taken no time to lament the loss of these vibrant individuals and the incredible gifts they offered Christ’s igreja,” he said. Over the course of lengthy and often emotional floor discussion, the recommendation underwent substantial revision. An…
A Colorado igreja wanted to find a way to do mission more sustainably and meaningfully. So they partnered with a igreja in Guatemala to help kids. By Lauren Forsythe Last June, a small group of us from All Souls Igreja of Boulder boarded a plane and flew to Guatemala Cidade to visit our partner igreja, Iglesia Belen, for the second…
…(Veldt has done considerable work in commissioned pastor training with Leadership Center colleague Burt Braunius.) “We started talking about how there is a clear need for leadership development more broadly in the igreja,” says Veldt. Through research with selected igreja members and staff, he discovered a two-fold need the pilot program attempts to address. One was to give newer igreja…
…mission as a igreja planter. Alemán went on to share his gratitude for the Spirit’s work in Global Mission and Igreja Multiplication. He noted that more than 85 percent of new RCA igreja plants since 2019 have been led by planters of color. More than 85 percent of new igreja planters are bivocational or covocational. Embracing diversity and staying rooted…
…Nepal, Romania, Thailand, the Netherlands, Hungary, Kenya, and beyond. Give your gift today! Go: Several of our igreja planters host vision and mission trips each year. Learn more about these opportunities. Do you feel called to igreja planting? Pray with your igreja and see how God might lead you to be a missionary with the RCA. Contact mission@rca.org for more…
…after the deacon and his wife moved away. Another igreja member gave her rides to school. “It truly has been a igreja effort,” Busker says. “When needed rides, or people to help her understand different legal issues, or whatever it may be…the igreja has stepped up.” Khabbazeh has embraced the igreja, too. “She’s become a member of Ponds Igreja, joined…
…teaching,” she says. “I help students work through and discuss difficult questions about the Bible, the igreja, and their lives. My students (and occasional igreja groups) affirm my ability to listen carefully and ask good questions without imposing my views.” She has two adult children. Stacy Midge is an associate minister at First Reformed Igreja in Schenectady, New York. She…
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