Growing Indigenous Reformed and Presbyterian churches among the nations through evangelism, biblical education & diaconal ministries
Dear Co-Laborers in Missions:
Great news! The Lord provided for Rev. Emmanuel Gill to receive his visa from the U.S. Embassy. He is now waiting the confirmation for his plane tickets which we should have shortly.
He is hoping to arrive on the west coast the end of next week. He is booked on a June 10 […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Rev. Dennis Roe
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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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By J. H. Bavinck
The following except is from J. H. Bavinck’s An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960): 196-198. This book, originally appearing in Dutch in 1954 by the nephew of the great Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck, is a classic treatment of the Reformed […]
Posted on December 31st, 1969 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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The following essay is taken from The Encyclopedia of Christianity Vol. II (Marshallton, DE):439-441. R. B. Kuiper, who was professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, PA) and Calvin Theological Seminary (Grand Rapids, MI), sets forth the key elements of the liberty of believers against many imbalances, infringements, […]
Posted on December 31st, 1969 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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