God commands his church to evangelize and extend in every nation. 

The Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension (CHMCE) establishes policies and provides assistance as required to enable presbyteries and individual churches more effectively carry out their responsibility and calling to fulfill the great commission.

The Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension: 

  • Assists the presbyteries of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to plant new churches throughout the United States and Canada.

  • Assists presbyteries in supporting regional home missionaries, who identify and develop new church planting sites and help new congregations to find organizing pastors

  • Has a special concern for the large metropolitan areas of North America and for the urban centers of many cities.

  • Conducts training seminars for church planters.

  • Introduces seminary students to ministry in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

  • Helps established congregations find pastors: Vacant Pulpit List

Thank Offering

Rev. Michael Schout talks about church planting in Zeeland, MI and Rev. Charles Biggs explains the exciting work of a regional home missionary.

History

Since its beginning in 1936 the Orthodox Presbyterian Church has had a Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension to assist with the establishment of new churches. The General Assembly elects nine ministers and six ruling elders to carry out this task. To accomplish their work they have been authorized to call and employ a general secretary and an associate general secretary and other staff as the need arises. The Committee meets four times a year (usually at the OPC Administration Office Building in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) to approve funding for new works, to set budgets, to review policies, and to direct the work of their employed staff.

Meet the Staff

serves as the general secretary for the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension. A 2012 graduate of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, he was the founding pastor of Resurrection Orthodox Presbyterian Church (State College, Pennsylvania) from 2011 to 2017. He served in Asia from 2017 to 2019, then as copastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church (Vandalia, Ohio) from 2020 until he began serving with the Committee in October 2023. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have five children.

Rev. Jeremiah Montgomery

serves as the associate general secretary for the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension. Al graduated from Biblical Theological Seminary (Hatfield, PA) in 1983 and served two congregations before laboring in Uganda as a missionary evangelist from 2005 through 2015. He and his wife, Laurie, live near Philadelphia and have five children and five grandchildren. 

Rev. Al Tricarico 

serves as the administrative coordinator for the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension. Lauren is a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and has a professional background in higher education. She and her husband, Paul, live in Ambler, PA and are members of Good News OPC in Norristown, PA.

Lauren LaRocca

Contact us.

If you would like to know more about Home Missions in the OPC or have a question about starting a new church we would be glad to hear from you. Contact us at ophomemissions@opc.org or fill out the form below.