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Quiet, Dependable

November 1, 1986 by Editor

Elevators, by design, are supposed to be quiet, dependable, and efficient. They attract little attention until they fail to perform as expected. Richard H. Ellingsworth doesn’t attract much attention, and those who know him well describe him as quiet, dependable, and efficient. That’s appropriate for the board chairman of the General Elevator Company of Bal

Filed Under: Church Leadership, Men, Women Tagged With: Church Leadership, Men's Ministries, Women's Ministries

Managing the Manse

October 1, 1986 by Editor

Manses (church-owned residences for ministers) are not the easiest of assets to manage. Sometimes they become liabilities. Increas

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: Church Leadership

Aussies Get Spring During the U.S. Summer

October 1, 1986 by Editor

Spring has arrived – in Australia. But “down under,” where the seasons are the reverse of those in Europe and North America, members of at least one church consider that spring’s refreshment came very early in 1986.

Thanks to seven summer (North American summer, that is) workers from the PCA’s Servants in Missions Abroad, the Buderim congregation of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on the Sunshine Coast experienced vitalization and growth. Elsewhere in Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland, two other SIMA summer workers helped new missionaries in Brisbane.

It was the first time that SIMA had sent a group for a two month assign

Filed Under: Church Leadership, Men, Women Tagged With: Church Leadership, Men's Ministries, Teachers/Disciplers, Women's Ministries

Answers to Prayer in 1536 and 1986

October 1, 1986 by Editor

Times are tumultuous. Interna

Filed Under: Church Leadership, Men, Women Tagged With: Church Leadership, Men's Ministries, Teachers/Disciplers, Women's Ministries

Spencer Line is Busy

October 1, 1986 by Editor

To some people, especially women in the PCA, John Spencer’s chief claim to fame is that he is the husband of Emalyn Spencer. She is the writer of more Women in the Church Bible study guides than anyone else in the denomination.

To many members of Birmingham’s Briarwood Church, he is the elder who taught them Reformation history in their first year as members there.

Young men who were in the Ala

Filed Under: Church Leadership, Men, Women Tagged With: Church Leadership, Men's Ministries, Women's Ministries

Presbytery Total Climbs

September 1, 1986 by Editor

When the First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America met in 1973 commissioners from 16 presbyteries attended. A total of 215 congregations were represented.

When the Fifteenth Gen

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: Church Leadership

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