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.
Read more about this topic: Protestant Reformed Churches In America
Famous quotes containing the words churches and, churches and/or missions:
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)