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 church get reacquainted with its neighborhood Queens Reformed Church has sat on the same street corner in its New York borough since 1858. It’s the oldest church 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 church, Reformed Church 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 church 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 Church, which hosted our group…
…the Reformed Church in America. And they departed with no letter of blessing. The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America has taken no time to lament the loss of these vibrant individuals and the incredible gifts they offered Christ’s church,” he said. Over the course of lengthy and often emotional floor discussion, the recommendation underwent substantial revision. An…
A Colorado church wanted to find a way to do mission more sustainably and meaningfully. So they partnered with a church in Guatemala to help kids. By Lauren Forsythe Last June, a small group of us from All Souls Church of Boulder boarded a plane and flew to Guatemala City to visit our partner church, 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 church,” says Veldt. Through research with selected church members and staff, he discovered a two-fold need the pilot program attempts to address. One was to give newer church…
…mission as a church planter. Alemán went on to share his gratitude for the Spirit’s work in Global Mission and Church Multiplication. He noted that more than 85 percent of new RCA church plants since 2019 have been led by planters of color. More than 85 percent of new church 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 church planters host vision and mission trips each year. Learn more about these opportunities. Do you feel called to church planting? Pray with your church 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 church member gave her rides to school. “It truly has been a church effort,” Busker says. “When needed rides, or people to help her understand different legal issues, or whatever it may be…the church has stepped up.” Khabbazeh has embraced the church, too. “She’s become a member of Ponds Church, joined…
…teaching,” she says. “I help students work through and discuss difficult questions about the Bible, the church, and their lives. My students (and occasional church 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 Church in Schenectady, New York. She…
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