Join World Missions and World Relief? The CRC Synod of 1984 moved in the direction of joining World Mission Board (WMB) and the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC). The main motive is to have united word and deed ministry in the mission of the church. Although the synods’ and the synodical committees’ motives are […]
The Christian Reformed Church in the Dominican Republic (ICR-RD) began with missionary contacts there in 1975 and 76 and since then has grown dramatically. Missionary involvement has increased from bi-annual visits in 1976 to the presence of 11 missionary families, 1 long-term volunteer and 1 short-term volunteer; church expansion and the increase of missionaries have […]
Missionary stories can be highly exaggerated. Since the audience does not kn ow all of the circumstances on the foreign field and the missionary does not have the time to tell the details of the whole story, it is easy to jump to triumphal conclusions. According to missionary stories, the world should have been evangelized […]
WOMEN IN THE PULPIT Dear Rev. De Jong The back page of your February issue contains a small news item concerning pulpit supply policies at Calvin Theological Seminary. It indicates that Calvin Seminary solicited requests for female students to exhort in non-Christian Reformed Churches which wished to use their services. This notice did appear one […]
In our August 1983 Outlook’s Christian Reformed Synod Report it was reported that the Calvin Board of Trustees and the synod had dismissed the case of recent years against the views of seminary professor John H. Stek about the first chapters of Genesis as not and never having been a disciplinary matter (Acts 1983, pp. […]
Stories of Christians and non-Christians being persecuted throughout the world and especially in the western hemisphere are becoming more familiar to North American Christians. The mass media exposure, the work of special interest groups and the geographical nearness of these incidents have all served to inform them. As reports and information are circulating, the Christian […]
This question is being asked in the CRC theological community. It is not a new question; most denominations have asked it and have come up with surprisingly different answers. Those who affirm the historical Adam have affirmed the traditional creationist view that God miraculously created man as a complete person. Those who deny Adam’s personal […]
The work of Christian Reformed missionaries in Mexico has recently been going through a crisis. Especially in this concluding article on Missions in Mexico, Rev. Neal Hegeman helps us to better understand the problems of our mission there. The Hegemans are at present at Apartado 100, San Francisco de Dos Rios, San Jose, Costa Rica, […]
In the first article on Mexico we described the entry stage of the mission work of the CRC in Mexico. The CRC made contact with migrants in the late 50’s, did follow-up work in Mexico, were invited to work with the Independent Presbyterian Church in Mexico and commenced their mission work in the early 60’s. […]
In this article Rev. Neal Hegeman who has worked on our mission field in Mexico introduces us to the complex and recently troubled work there. He has graduated from our seminary and is to take up work under the Christian Reformed Board of World Missions in Costa Rica. Recent issues of THE OUTLOOK have contained […]