Like most congregations, Neon OPC had to hit pause on in-person worship services starting March 22. However, Pastor Jay Bennett is glad to share that as of May 17 they have resumed in-person services and things feel somewhat back to normal. During the closure, they live-streamed on Facebook and moved their Bible studies to Zoom. A praise is that God used the online format of the Bible studies to draw in a few new people. Since Neon is continuing to see God work through the online Bible studies, they’ve not yet moved them back to in-person. The men’s addiction center next door to the church is still in the process of opening. The shutdown pushed their date back a bit. Pray that God would go before and provide an open door to minister to the

Pastor Mike Schout of Grace Fellowship OPC writes, “In many ways, the past few months have reminded us that God works through His ordinary means of grace—things like preaching, sacraments, prayer, and fellowship. It’s been good to slow down and remember that. For all the inconveniences, frustrations, and anxieties surrounding the pandemic, the Word is not bound (2 Timothy 2:9). What an encouragement and source of joy to know that even while we were prevented from meeting in our usual way, God’s Word continued to spread. Three weeks ago, we took our first steps back toward public worship. One man was there because he watched our livestream with a relative from our church. As we move back towards normal Sundays, we’ve been reminded that our

Pastor Michael Seufert reports that as of Sunday, June 14 Mission OPC resumed in-person worship. He asks you to join him in giving thanks for God’s gracious provision for the church during the past three months of limited interaction. The congregation, along with a new wave of visitors who stuck with them through the virtual season, were delighted to resume in-person public worship. Pastor Seufert requests your prayers for the following: 1) Health and safety, as the church re-emerges into public life together. 2) Wisdom for the pastor and elders, as they seek to shepherd the congregation through these challenging times. 3) Wisdom as they seek to steward well God’s good material gifts, which he has granted to the congregation. And 4) Wisdom

Regional Home Missionary Mark Sumpter reports that the church planting ministry in Wichita Falls, TX; Waco, TX, and New Braunfels, TX need prayer for strengthening and growth in membership classes and officer training. The ministry of prayer and counseling have been a vibrant feature for Mark Sumpter over the past two months. Some of it stems from the Covid-19 lockdown, but also from following up with people and their needs in the presbytery’s church planting efforts. He asks you to remember the Bible study in NE Houston in Crosby, TX. Hurricane Harvey Evangelist, Rev. Nick Lammé has been ministering to this group of 25-30 since last August. Their development looks promising to be a possible new church in the Houston area. Pray for an

We are pleased to welcome to denominational support the Rev. Paul Mourreale, organizing pastor of Covenant Reformed Church in West Plains, Missouri. Paul is married to Sarah and they have four children: Abigail (12), Silas (10), Matthias (8), and Grace (6). The groundwork for the mission work began roughly four years ago when Dr. Curtis Horstman, a ruling elder at Sovereign Grace Reformed Church (mother church in Doniphan 70 miles to the east) had the idea of starting a Bible study in hopes that it might become a mission work. When that fell through, Dr. Horstman then had the idea of recruiting an OPC minister to teach at the local Christian school with hopes of developing a work in West Plains. After about two years of conversations, Paul