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Discipleship Ministries of the PCA
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Most North Americans have heard of Timbuktu, but even if they think it’s more real than legendary they usually can’t find it on the map. Fewer are likely to be able to tell how to find Abidjan, where the newest Mission to the World church planting team is being established.
The names may be equally mysterious, but MTW has determined that Abidjan has much greater potential as the site of new work. It is a strate
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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
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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
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Times are tumultuous. Interna
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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
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Back home in North Africa, Mr. D. never saw or even heard of the Bible. The only holy book there was the Koran. Few foreigners, and certainly no missionaries, were welcomed in his Muslim nation.
The bright and industrious young man did well in the schools of his country, so well that he was sent to America to study. He is expected to learn enough while in the United States to be able, when he returns home, to supplant an expensive for