The 50th annual meeting of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) convened November 11–13, 2025, at Hope Community Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and the neighboring campus of Geneva College.
Discussion centered on past efforts and present prospects for organic union, a primary purpose of this council of thirteen confessionally Reformed denominations in the U.S. and Canada. The assembly was encouraged to be “eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:3), promoting bottom-up forms of collaboration between member churches.
As part of its deliberations, the council recommended that its member churches observe a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting regarding sexual sin by church officers, with Wednesday, April 22, 2026 as a suggested date. The Heritage Reformed Congregations received permission to organize a consultation (a separate meeting of member churches) on biblical counseling, with the date to be determined. Numerous bilateral meetings between delegates of member churches provided fruitful time to discuss practical expressions of interdenominational unity.
On Wednesday evening, delegates enjoyed a 50th anniversary dinner in the Metheny Fieldhouse of Geneva College and a keynote address by Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, with more than one hundred guests present.
Full minutes of the council can be found at naparc.org. The next meeting will be November 10–12, 2026, at First United Reformed Church in Oak Lawn, Illinois.