I am thankful to introduce Ventura Reformed to readers of the Heidelblog! In April, Pasadena URC called and sent me to three households in the city of Ventura to lead them in a grassroots church-planting project. We are asking the Lord to establish a URCNA congregation on the Oxnard Plain (population ~ 400,000) not only with Reformed-and-relocating people, and with Christians-becoming-Reformed people, but especially—especially!—with people who do not attend any church. Continue reading →
I was born and brought up in London, England and my family were faithful members of the Open Brethren churches, who count as part of their history the great George Müller and the martyr, Jim Elliot; firmly premillennial, dispensational, ‘no creed but the Bible’ and credobaptist with many other idiosyncrasies thrown in! I moved to Coventry in the Midlands of England for college and stayed in that area afterwards, involved in a variety of evangelistic efforts and youth work. I even remember one summer teaching faithfully at a Bible class with all the charts and without any doubt, the end times according to Hal Lindsey! Continue reading →
In this session, Bob Godfrey turns his attention to the effect that Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) had upon the West. Until the early 1970s the psychiatric and psychological establishment recognized homosexuality as a mental illness or a disorder. In the late 1950s, Dr . . . Continue reading →
What began as an initial inquiry back in 2013, and eventually developed into a Bible study in 2018, has now progressed towards planting a United Reformed Church (URC) in Indianapolis—praise the Lord for his faithfulness. Our History And Highlights In 2013, two . . . Continue reading →
In 1850, a former slave named William J. Anderson built a church building in downtown Madison, Indiana. Anderson had escaped the clutches of slavery and made it just across the Ohio River into Madison. He became a conductor on the Underground Railroad and, . . . Continue reading →
Here in Norfolk, VA, the Lord is working to build His Church. In the summer of 2021, a group of families began meeting regularly to study the Heidelberg Catechism and the Bible together. Over the next few months, these families met with . . . Continue reading →
Introduction: Why Another Church? As I began to announce and plan for a United Reformed Church plant in Birmingham Alabama, the question that kept coming up was some variation of, “Why another church?” or “Why another Reformed church?” In response to this, . . . Continue reading →
As I write this, we have been living and laboring in Birmingham, Alabama for twenty weeks. My family and I moved back to Birmingham at the beginning of July. In the middle of that month, we had the privilege of attending a church-planting conference. Continue reading →
In 1796, missionary Rev. Peter Labagh was sent to Kentucky to establish a Dutch Reformed Church in Harrodsburg. By 1800, a Reformed Church was built, known as the “Old Mud Meeting House,” and pastored by “Dominie” Thomas Kyle. This church was the . . . Continue reading →
We are excited to share that there is a new effort to start a confessionally Reformed congregation in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Reading through a directory of churches in this self-described “city of churches,” you will quickly see only one confessionally Reformed church. . . . Continue reading →
A church member once shared with me that in his circle of friends, it was shocking to learn there are churches where one can depend on hearing the gospel every week. Though there are a great many churches that do believe and . . . Continue reading →
The sounds of Synod 2024 Continue reading →
As a follow-up to the announcement of a new NAPARC church planting effort in Fort Wayne, Indiana this spring, we would like to inform you that there will be another informational meeting on Sunday, August 4th beginning at 5:30 PM to talk about . . . Continue reading →
The theme of all good church planting updates is the faithfulness of God. This one is no exception. Perhaps that has to do with the ever-faithful God whom we worship. Continue reading →