…officers and directors, as well as the members of the church, generally will not be liable for the obligations of the church (due to its status as a separate legal entity) as long as the individuals properly honor the corporate formalities of organizing and operating the church. Ease of obtaining financing. Simply put, because of the foregoing advantages, lenders may…
…during the ’60s and ’70s was great! Just ask anyone who lived in the city also known as “Silk City,” “P-Town,” and “Brick City.” They’ll glow when speaking of the Fabian Theater, Eastside Park, the Great Falls, shopping downtown, Garret Mountain, and Costello Pool (named after Paterson native Lou Costello of the great comedy duo Abbott and Costello). The Paterson…
…neighbors into this growing circle of relationships.” Today, Liberti is a multisite church with two campuses: one in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, where they rent the facilities of a historic Baptist church, and one in an area called the Main Line, a suburban area west of the city where they rent space from Rosemont College. Between the two locations,…
…our congregation that we were able to help daughter a new church, and I sense a renewed evangelistic focus in the church. “I believe that planting a church has renewed in us a deep concern for people—not just church systems and projects. If your mentality for church planting is project based—a to-do list and getting the money— it will fail….
…If they’ve done this at another church, they can also transfer their membership to an RCA congregation. They are active in the church, including hearing God’s Word and participating in the Lord’s Supper. Adherents are the people who participate in the life, work, and worship of the church, but are not members. What the RCA believes The RCA is shaped…
…facilitating deeper discipleship and mission Examples of fresh expression churches are a kayak church, yoga studio church, dinner church, running club church, or food truck church. A fresh expression can be digital, phygital (physical and digital), or in-person. The RCA has been planting new churches for hundreds of years. When most people think of church planting, classic plants are what…
…a Christian background; my background was outside the church,” he says. That forever impressed on him the importance of evangelism, a value that has shaped much of his life and ministry. Two years later, Eddy married Daysi Morales, a fellow Nicaraguan refugee. The Alemáns had left their church, where “everything was sin, like women wearing pants or earrings … I…
…an option. By including it in its Constitution, the church recognized that the actual liturgical text was something that helped form the basic character of the church. Without it, the church would be essentially different … in the Reformed church, worship has been made only secondarily a matter of church order. The primary definition of worship comes from the actual…
…an RCA church plant from neighboring Zeeland. Last year, when The Foundry was ready to move out of its parent church’s gym, Foundry pastor Eric Folkers found himself at the Benjamin’s Hope campus. Folkers was reconnecting with his mentor, Eric Peterson, pastor of The Church of Benjamin’s Hope. What he didn’t know was that Benjamin’s Hope was in the process…
…those kids. I took a big step in that direction when I helped lead a Hope College mission trip to North Reformed Church in Newark, New Jersey. People from that church shine in the darkness of the inner city because they refuse to narrowly define what ministry is and how it should be done. What impressed me most is their…
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