Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension. We exist to help the presbyteries and congregations of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to start new Presbyterian and Reformed congregations throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. This simple statement of purpose gives clear direction to both the Committee and its staff about how biblical ecclesiology works itself out in the OP ...

New General Secretary

The Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension is pleased to announce the call of their new general secretary, the Rev. John S. Shaw. He is the founding pastor of Mission Orthodox Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has served since 2006. He has also served as a member of the denominational Committee on Home Missions since 2008, where he is chairman of the Church Planting Subcommittee, which intervie ...

A Place for Evangelism

There is a place you can go in the world to learn about evangelism. It is a place unlike any other I have found, where the beauty of God’s creation and the darkness of humanity’s sinfulness stand in such stark contrast to each other. It is a place where evangelism is the focus of the conversation three hundred and sixty five days a year, and where Christians can talk about, observe, and practice sharing the gospel of Jesu ...

Hope for Seattle, Washington

The session of Westminster OPC in Monroe Washington had been praying for nearly five years that the Lord would use them to plant a church. Last year, they had little more than $1,700, no group and no church planter. Rev. Dan McManigal, who was pastoring Grace URC in Portland, Ore. and his wife Jill had knocked on the doors of every school for deaf children from Vancouver, Washington to Salem, Oregon, but no viable options ...