Last year, the Committee on Home Missions asked the church to pray together with First Street Reformed Fellowship—a church plant in Dayton, Ohio—for a new building. Not only has God answered this prayer, he has provided a space that is well-suited to the church's expanding outreach ministries and to the congregation's heart for sharing Christ's love. Pastor Tyler Detrick writes, "We were particularly drawn to 1501 E. Third Street because of its location along the 'Welcome Dayton Corridor' where immigrants are residential and recognized by the city." According to Detrick, the church's neighborhood is both urban and ethnically diverse: "Roughly 40% of our neighbors are immigrants (mostly Turkish, or Spanish-speaking). The rest of the

In early 2020, I had just returned home from a seven-month deployment as an Air Force Chaplain. Our family began the social distancing lockdowns extremely grateful to be together and to make up for lost time. As the months went on and the chapel on base remained closed, the Lord laid it on the hearts of several people, myself included, that we could safely have a worship gathering outdoors on Sunday morning when I was available to preach. A dear friend, Rosemary Henderson, graciously offered her side yard as the meeting spot, and on June 21, 2020, about thirty of us met to worship the living God in her beautiful garden overlooking Tampa Bay. Emails were sent and phone calls were made to invite people to our gathering. We emphasized that we

Dr. Eric Watkins, pastor of Harvest OPC in San Marcos, CA, and member of the Committee on Home Missions, has written several gospel tracts for OP congregations and church plants. Watkins brings a wealth of experience to this project. Together, he and General Secretary John Shaw teach a class on "Reformed Evangelism" for the OPC's Ministerial Training Institute. Watkins has planted two churches for the OPC, and he serves as the Director of the Center for Missions and Evangelism at Mid-America Reformed Seminary. Watkins himself grew up in a non-Christian household. He came to know the Lord when he was twenty-one years old, after he had finished following the Grateful Dead across the country. In God's providence, his older sister gave him a

THE PRESBYTERY OF THE SOUTH David Chilton has been in the Presbytery of the South for a number of years as a tentmaking associate pastor of a church plant in Orlando, Florida. He assumed duties as the new RHM on July 1. Pastor Chilton shares: "One of the first and most urgent orders of business was helping to provide oversight of a new potential mission work in Tampa, Florida—long an area of interest for the presbytery that had yet to bear fruit. I had already been helping fill the pulpit for the group, which was meeting in the yard of one of its members and calling itself the Side Yard Fellowship. Among its members was the family of a USAF chaplain, Dan­iel Halley, who is ordained in the OPC. At the spring meeting of the presbytery, the