Restructuring Team Roundtable Meetings This Fall Seek to Engage and Gather More Feedback Blog Post

…event to help get the word out to as many people as possible. If you live in the area of an event but don’t receive a direct invitation, please consider this your invitation! Registration is encouraged for each event to give the site hosts an approximate number of attendees for planning and set-up purposes, and to provide accommodations for people…

A Prayer for General Synod Blog Post

…1660. She earned her M.Div. and D.Min. from New Brunswick Theological Seminary. She is the founder of the PUSH (Pray Until Something Happens) movement and is the founder of Harlem’s African Burial Ground Task Force, through whose work the City of New York is now planning to establish a memorial site, cultural museum, and affordable housing site in that area….

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RCA International Church Planting Update Blog Post

…networks in their native countries. For example, Classis de las Naciones recently organized their 16th congregation (their first “from scratch” plant) in Sarasota, Florida! This new congregation is part of Vida de Reino, a multi-site church planted by Rev. Fredy Guitierrez. Vida de Reino also has campuses in Colombia and Guatemala, with new campuses coming in Mexico and Venice, Florida….

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Synod Celebrates New Churches Blog Post

On Friday afternoon, General Synod delegates celebrated the work of church multiplication within the RCA, including 16 multi-site plants that have been started over the last eight years. (A multi-site plant is started by a congregation that adds a new campus to expand its ministry.) RCA coordinator for Church Multiplication Tim Vink and church planters from several regional synods shared…

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RCA welcomes Jim Harrison as coordinator for prayer mobilization Blog Post

…Michigan, for five years before beginning work in the global mission field. He has served with RCA Global Mission for 25 years as a missionary in Estonia and, most recently, in Bahrain. “One of Jim’s biggest priorities in every place he has served is to use his teaching gifts to train and equip people for dynamic intercessory prayer,” says Alemán….

Global Mission Comes Full Circle Blog Post

…of West Kenya, in the mission hospitals in Bahrain, in the faces of lepers receiving God’s Word for the first time in their heart languages in India. And now I see that prophecy being fulfilled in my own life.” Sundararajan also issued an invitation to Mission 2020, January 16–18, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. Mission 2020 is a celebration of 377…

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RCA Grieves Death of Fifth-Generation Missionary Lew Scudder Blog Post

…missionaries in Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey, and Cyprus from 1966 until their retirement in 2008. He served in various capacities in the Middle East, including director of the communication office for the Middle East Council of Churches, and mission consultant and educator for the RCA. Lew was the fifth generation within the Scudder family to serve as an RCA missionary….

Archives Page

…we can tell people what records are available and guide them in the right direction for further research. Most of our congregational records have been digitized and made available on ancestry.com. That site would provide the least expensive and most efficient method to research Reformed church congregational registers. Other Research Recent records of the Reformed Church in America are restricted….

Jesse Tree Resources Page

…you read a Bible story about someone on Jesus’s family tree and hang an ornament symbolizing the story on your Jesse Tree. As you decorate your tree, you see how God prepared for Jesus to be born through many generations. Explore our collection of Jesse Tree resources, including printable ornament coloring sheets and daily devotions, on Faithward, our sister site….