The church building recently completed and occupied by Redeemer OPC in Ada, Michigan, just outside Grand Rapids, was designed to welcome visitors and to house a large and expanding mission-minded congregation. I was a guest at their first worship service in the new facility on a sunny but chilly day in mid-February. The 419 people in attendance made the 550-seat worship facility seem comfortably full. And the 260 folks who came back for evening worship gave clear evidence that this was ... Continue

The move to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been filled with wonderful surprises for Chad and Katie Mullinix. The Mullinixes are not new to Florida. They both graduated from Clearwater Christian College. They met in college. During their years of dating, they came to know the Reformed faith through the ministry of a local Presbyterian Church in America congregation. After graduation, they were married, and Chad did an internship in the PCA church that had nurtured them. During the five years ... Continue

Fremont OPC in Fremont, Michigan, began as an effort of Little Farms Chapel (OPC) in Coopersville. One family was driving from Fremont to Little Farms Chapel and praying that God would establish an OP congregation in their community in western Michigan. In the spring of 2008, Dr. Norman De Jong began leading Lord’s Day worship there, morning and evening. By the fall, a core group had been gathered and Dr. De Jong was called to be the organizing pastor. Pastor ... Continue

Twelve men were called and sent to home missions fields as organizing pastors in 2011. The Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension seeks to help equip these men for their labors. So each January it sponsors a Church Planter Training Conference for the organizing pastors who began their labors in the previous year. A few others who are involved in the broader work of home missions are also invited to attend. Eight men who began their ministries in 2011 ... Continue

At it’s heart, Trinity Church (OPC) in Huntington, Long Island, New York, is a worshipping community. The church gathers to worship in response to God’s grace in Jesus Christ. The church’s “Welcome” booklet observes, worship “is the source from which everything else in life flows.” At Trinity Church, there is an excitement about worshipping God. You see it on the faces of adults and children as they arrive at the Elks Lodge. Reverence is brightly colored by a vibrant and ... Continue