Growing Indigenous Reformed and Presbyterian churches among the nations through evangelism, biblical education & diaconal ministries
In the development of missionary churches it is necessary for those who are laboring as pastors to not “lord it over” the sheep. Scripture is very emphatic on this point. Christ says,
42 But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, You know that those […]
Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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By Bruce F. Hunt
Preface to the Fourth Edition of John L. Nevius, The Planting and Development of Missionary Churches
In 1890 Dr. John L. Nevius, a Presbyterian missionary working in China, received an invitation to Korea from a group of seven young missionaries who were just beginning their work in that little peninsula off the east […]
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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Life and Work
John Livingston Nevius was the seventh generation of Joannes Nevius who became schepen of New Amsterdam in 1654. About 1818 John P. Nevius moved from New Jersey to a farm the Finger Lakes region of western New York in the township of Ovid, Seneca County. His son, Benjamin Hageman Nevius, married in 1826 […]
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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Field Chairman to Mexico. Bill Higgins has worked with the native Tarascan peoples of Michoacán, Central Mexico, since 1997.
Bill has his B.A. degree from Covenant College. His M.A.T.S., S.T.M., and Th.M. degrees are from Whitefield Theological Seminary, as is his Ph.D. in Christian Thought, emphasis in Puritan Studies. He has also done graduate work in […]
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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Earl was born April 22, 1923, the fifth of six children, into a nominal Christian Baptist home in Brewster, New York. He was baptized and became a member of the Baptist Church as a teenager, but had no assurance of salvation at that time. He graduated from Brewster High School in 1941 and joined the […]
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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Dennis was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1948. Following his graduation from high school in 1966, he spent two years in the U.S. Army. During his time in the Army he served a year in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and was twice awarded the Silver Star for heroism.
Having attended John Wesley […]
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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