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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach : Shane Lems – Part 2

December 14, 2021 By Home Missions

This is week 2 with Shane. If you didn’t read last week, here is more on Shane, or skip down to the final portion of the interview. Shane Lems is the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Hammond, Wisconsin. He and his wife, Lisa, have 4 kids. Prior to ministry, Shane was in the US […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Shane Lems – Part 1

December 7, 2021 By Home Missions

Shane Lems is the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Hammond, Wisconsin. He and his wife, Lisa, have 4 kids. Prior to ministry, Shane was in the US Army Reserves for 6 years and worked in the auto parts industry. He is a graduate of Westminster Seminary in California, and was a church planter in […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Dave Veldhorst Part 2

November 30, 2021 By Home Missions

This is week 2 with Dave. If you didn’t read last week, here is more on Dave or skip down to the final portion of the interview. Dave Veldhorst is the pastor of Bethel OPC in Oostburg, WI. Dave grew up atBethel under the ministry of Don Stanton and Jim Bosgraf. He also has missionary […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Dave Veldhorst Part 1

November 16, 2021 By Home Missions

Dave Veldhorst is the pastor of Bethel OPC in Oostburg, WI. Dave grew up atBethel under the ministry of Don Stanton and Jim Bosgraf. He also has missionary experience with MTW in Japan for two years and Thailand for several years. Dave was called to pastor Bethel in 2013. He and his wife, Jan, have […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Andrew Canavan Part 2

November 9, 2021 By Home Missions

Andrew is the church planter at Corona OPC in Corona, CA. He is a Philadelphia native who attended Wheaton College and Grad School, as well as Westminster Seminary in California. He and his wife, Rebekah, have three young children. Here are Andrew’s responses to our final 3 questions… Question: What is a great idea or […]

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Loving People, Not Just the Idea of People

October 19, 2021 By Home Missions

We came across an article that had an interesting idea that we thought we’d turn into a post here. The article was based on a fictional conversation in the book The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky and was written by a professor at Midwestern Baptist Seminary. We are pulling out just a portion of the article […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Lowell Ivey Part 2

September 28, 2021 By Home Missions

This is week 2 with Lowell Ivey. If you didn’t read last week, here is more about Lowell, or skip down for the remainder of our interview. Lowell Ivey is the pastor of Reformation Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Virginia Beach since 2016. He and his wife, Mae, have 5 children ranging from 8 years to […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Lowell Ivey Part 1

September 21, 2021 By Home Missions

Lowell Ivey is the pastor of Reformation Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Virginia Beach since 2016. He and his wife, Mae, have 5 children ranging from 8 years to 4 months old. Some of you may know of Lowell’s testimony as it’s one of those you don’t forget and it’s been told in various venues, including […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Tyler Detrick Part 2

September 15, 2021 By Home Missions

This is week 2 with Tyler as we share his final 3 answers to our questions. If you didn’t read last week, here is more about Tyler: Tyler Detrick is the organizing pastor of First Street Reformed Fellowship in Dayton, OH. Tyler is one of the younger and newer OPC ministers. He interned with Brad […]

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OPC Pastors Talk Outreach: Tyler Detrick – Part 1

September 8, 2021 By Home Missions

Tyler Detrick is the organizing pastor of First Street Reformed Fellowship in Dayton, OH. Tyler is one of the younger and newer OPC ministers. He interned with Brad Peppo and then was ordained and installed in Dayton in November of 2020. He and his wife, Natalie, have a one-year old son. Tyler grew up 20 […]

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New Series: OPC Pastors Talk Outreach

August 31, 2021 By Home Missions

Next week Outward OPC starts a new series for the fall. We have interviewed about a dozen OPC pastors—many doing faithful work that you probably don’t know much about. And we’ve asked them about things like: What has changed in your views and practice about outreach during your ministry? What are things you’ve learned from […]

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Open My Lips – The Final Word With Eric Hausler

August 17, 2021 By Home Missions

Our final post in this series is a short bonus. In a Q&A, Eric was asked how to go from making all these connections with people (about everyday life) to getting to the gospel. Eric gave a thoughtful and helpful answer in just a couple minutes. Again, thanks to the Presbytery of Ohio for holding […]

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Open My Lips – Part 3 Everyday Examples

August 3, 2021 By Home Missions

As we wind down in this whole series, today is a unique opportunity. In his conference, Eric Hausler took some extended time to give examples from his own life and church about how being intentional with people has led to open doors that God has blessed dramatically at times. Eric is a bit of a […]

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Open My Lips – Part 2 With Eric Hausler

July 20, 2021 By Home Missions

Continuing with highlights from Eric Hausler’s conference with the Presbytery of Ohio, this short video is very interesting. We started this series talking about how Eric has a view about people as “landscape” that has stuck with a number of people. In our last series on Outward, two of the writers–one from Ohio–mentioned Eric’s illustration. […]

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Open My Lips – Part 1 With Eric Hausler

July 13, 2021 By Home Missions

This week, we begin the final section of this series where we are highlighting parts of a conference Eric Hausler did for the Presbytery of Ohio. We are thankful for the Presbytery of Ohio having this conference and allowing and encouraging us to use these shorter clips for this series. Past installments can be found […]

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A Remarkable Story of God’s Work in the OPC

July 6, 2021 By Home Missions

21 years. Almost to the day. God answers the prayers of his people as they gather as a church to seek His favor. Recently, Jay Bennett, pastor of Neon Reformed Presbyterian Church in Neon, KY told us a story—a remarkable story of God’s faithfulness. Neon, KY is a rural region of Appalachia. It is very […]

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Are We Living In A Distant Drama?

June 1, 2021 By Home Missions

Last week, we read an interesting article on The Gospel Coalition website called, “The Danger of Being Driven By Distant Drama.” We’ll link the article below if you want to read the whole thing, but as we are prone to do, we want to distill it down to the couple ideas that we found thought […]

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How Do You View The Landscape? – Part 5 (Engaging Normally)

May 18, 2021 By Home Missions

We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism–particularly God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view previous posts from the series here: Series Posts In a Q&A session, Eric was asked about the difficulty of […]

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How Do You View the Landscape? – Part 4 Examples & Application

May 11, 2021 By Home Missions

We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism–particularly God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view previous posts from the series here: (Series Posts) During the conference, Eric spent some time on application…what does this […]

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How Do You View The Landscape? – Part 3 With Eric Hausler

May 4, 2021 By Home Missions

We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism. Eric particularly discussed God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view previous posts from the series here: (Series Posts) Having laid out how the gospel shapes our […]

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