The White Horse rides today in Beijing, China. The Gospel spreads. Persecution, famine, and death follow soon thereafter. Such events, while not physically occurring with great frequency here in the United States of America, do happen today in such seemingly faraway places as the mist-enshrouded Orient. Come, let us turn now to the Red Dragon […]
David is a member of Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan and attends the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mission where his father labors as a home missionary of the Protestant Reformed Churches. It was our first day of spring break when Dad got my brother and me up at the crack of dawn to go […]
Rajin, North Korea: From the Times Newspaper of London in the January 30, 2005 edition, Michael Sheradin reports on the current strife between the United States, China, and North Korea. The four-page article reminds the Christian not only of the end times, but also of Christ Jesus’ instruction unto his disciples, when he sent them […]
Saturday October 9 We arose early and had breakfast in the hotel’s restaurant. We had Topsilog, a cup of cooked rice with a fried egg on top, and a piece of meat on the side. It tasted good. Today’s schedule called for four speeches on the covenant and started at 9:00 am. I had a […]
Introduction: The Foreign Mission committee of the Protestant Reformed Churches sent a delegation of Rev. Rodney Miersma and Rev. Daniel Kleyn to the Philippines for two weeks in October 1999. I had the privilege of “tagging” along for one week of this trip to see the land and the people that the PRC has contact […]
Living on a mission field is work that is not cut out for just anyone. It takes people with special gifts to be able to work with the elderly, mentally retarded, or to work in the emergency room of a hospital, and it takes people with special gifts to live on a mission field. This […]
This past summer, the fourth family conference was held in Castlewellan, Northern Ireland. The British Reformed Fellowship has organized a week-long family conference in the British Isles every second summer since 1990, and this year’s was probably the best one yet! The members of the Fellowship from Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland really look […]
Toward the end of the three months that my wife and I recently spent in Covenant Protestant Reformed Church in Northern Ireland, we had the opportunity to accompany Rev. Ron Hanko on one of his missionary trips to Wales. As most of you know, Rev. Hanko has been making regular visits to Wales in order […]
As we approached Gatwick Airport in London, England, I was filled with curiosity as to what this land full of rich history would be like. I looked out the window of the plane and saw beautiful rolling hills covered with fields defined by hedges of green that made the land appear as a hodgepodge of […]