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Our Commitment to Christ
Elaine Reed President, ARP Women's Ministries For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:21). This verse, tucked away in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, is a simple, but accurate litmus test. There is no denying we demonstrate our...
Hill City Church, Rock Hill, SC
By Rev. Andy Stager I’m privileged to lead a long-term mission team known as Hill City Church, a new mission congregation of Catawba Presbytery in the heart of Rock Hill, SC. We believe God has called us to bring the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus to bear for...
If You Could See What I See
Dr. Alan J Avera: Executive Director of Outreach North America RP Magazine editor Delores McDonald and I were talking recently about some of the good things happening in the ARP Church that most people never see. We either get so focused on our lo- cal church context...
Erskine: Commencement 2012
DUE WEST, SC — Members of the Erskine College Class of 2012 were recognized May 12 at the school’s 167th commencement under the towers of the Erskine Building. (photo 1 of college grads) Commencement speaker Peter Keith Greer, president and CEO of HOPE International,...
They’re Checking Out! Preparing Our High School Graduates for Collect
by Dr. E. Brent Turner Often, statistics hit us in the face - especially when given in several different sources. This statistic concerns me: Between 65 and 70 percent of high school graduates from church congregations leave the church when they leave for college and...
National Missionaries
By Frank Van Dalen: Executive Director of World Witness North American missionaries are expensive. Although the salaries of married World Witness missionaries are around $35,000 per year (a very reasonable expense), other costs (insurance, retirement, schooling,...
Guerard Descendants Visit Bonclarken
We enjoy hosting numerous fam- ily reunions each year, with most having ties to Bonclarken through their family’s ARP connections. However, we recently hosted a reunion for a family that had even deeper ties to this wonderful place. Arthur and Madelaine Guerard were...
Why Women’s Ministries?
The following is from a devotional offered at the ARPWM Executive Committee Meeting in August 2011, presented by Tracey Smith. Tracey is a member of First Gastonia ARP Church and treasurer of ARP Women’s Ministries. By Tracey Smith "Why women’s ministries?” Are we...
Promised Blessings
By Elizabeth Burns, ARP Women's Ministries Coordinator I lways marvel over the opening and closing words in the letters of Paul and John and Peter in Scripture. Grace and peace is extended in the openings of at least 17 letters, with mercy and love added to a few, and...
Reflecting Back, Journeying Forward
By Elaine Reed, ARP Women's Ministries President Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5 NIV). Q. 7. What are the decrees of God? A. The decrees of God are, his eternal...