Churches and Missions
The PRC currently has 31 member churches scattered throughout the United States and in Canada. A majority of the churches in the United States are located in western Michigan but there are also churches in the midwestern and western United States. The PRC has few formal relationships with most reformed denominations and organizations. The PRC contributed greatly to the development of two churches in Singapore, the First Evangelical Reformed Church in Singapore and Covenant Evangelical Reformed Church. The PRC also has relationships with a small fellowship in New Zealand; the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Australia; a sister churches in Northern Ireland, the Covenent Protestan reformed Church in Ballymena, and Limerick Reformed Fellowship was founded with the help of the PRC and; the Protestant Reformed Churches in Myanmar.
The PRC has also developed contacts in India, Germany, Myanmar, Venezuela and in Singapore; there is a sister Reformed Church in Singapore. Currently, the PRC is engaged in missions in a few locations in the United States, and they have recently organized a church in the Philippines and several mission churches were started. The First Reformed Church in Bulacan, the Berea Reformed Church was organised in 2006, and the All of Grace Protestant Reformed Fellowship in Gabaldon, the Philippines, recently a new work is undervay, the Provident Christian Church in Manila. The Georgetown PRC is involved in mission in India. In 2005, the Synod of the PRC closed the denomination's missionary field work in Ghana, due to a lack of membership.
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