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Stories From the Field

Stories From the Field: Evangelism Where You Are Planted – Part 3

December 13, 2022 By Home Missions

The last snippet from Allison Hill’s article about a youth evangelism conference in Dayton, Ohio. Pastor Tyler Detrick’s reflections on the event are worth a few minutes of consideration: According to Detrick, the kids were surprisingly eager to speak with people, even asking to move to new locations when they weren’t seeing much foot traffic. […]

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Stories From the Field: Evangelism Where You Are Planted – Part 2

December 6, 2022 By Home Missions

We are breaking down Allison Hill’s great article about Outreach in Dayton, Ohio. Pastor Tyler Detrick was interviewed about a Youth Evangelism Conference they held. You can read the first post here (Part 1) for context and the “why” of the conference. This week, we look at the “what” of the conference and take a […]

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Stories From the Field: Evangelism Where You Are Planted – Part 1

November 29, 2022 By Home Missions

Light of the Nations OPC in Dayton, Ohio is consistently doing evangelism. Recently, Allison Hill (Home Missions Staff) wrote a great article interviewing Pastor Tyler Detrick about one of their efforts with a youth evangelism conference. We are going to break the article up into a couple of short segments with some questions for thought […]

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Stories From the Field: What Is Truth? – Ringoes, NJ

January 11, 2022 By Home Missions

This week’s post is from Rev. Chris Bush from Calvary OPC in Ringoes, NJ. I am often tempted to think that I must fit everything into a single conversation, but as I have gone out with our church’s evangelism group, it has quickly become apparent that I have a limited number of words with a […]

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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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Stories From the (Virtual) Field: Webinar in TX

May 26, 2020 By Home Missions

Carl Miller, OPC church planter in New Braunfels, TX recently hosted a free webinar on “Grief & Perseverance in Suffering.” He did the same presentation twice at different times of day to accommodate peoples’ schedules. He used ZOOM which allowed him to give a presentation, including PowerPoint slides, and a Q&A after with those who […]

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Stories From the (Virtual Field): Angels Rejoice!

May 19, 2020 By Home Missions

This story relayed to us through an elder in the OPC… We rejoice in the Lord to hear that a young college aged woman living in the home of an OPC family has recently come to faith during this pandemic. Two notes of encouragement we may glean from this as we seek to be more […]

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Stories From the (Virtual) Field: Stories To Inspire Neighbors

May 5, 2020 By Home Missions

Pastor Ralph Rebandt in Oakland Hills, MI recently started creating short videos on “Inspirational Real Life Stories.” As we write, he has done 3 episodes. Ralph says that these videos are not intended to be theologically deep, but like the parables to reach people who may not have otherwise thought about spiritual things. The videos […]

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Stories From the (Virtual) Field: Daily Videos in SoCal

April 28, 2020 By Home Missions

Pastor Andrew Canavan in Corona, CA has been doing short, daily videos for his congregation for a few weeks. The videos are no frills, about 3-4 minutes, and covering a wide range of topics. Andrew just uses his smartphone, no lighting or mics and talks about good books, movies, music and hymns, church history and […]

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Stories From the Field: Winston-Salem, NC

June 26, 2019 By Home Missions

We recently checked in with Calvin Keller, the church planter at Harvest OPC in Winston-Salem, NC. Calvin just recently moved to Winston-Salem to take the call and has been on the ground for about 6 months. Upon moving to NC, Calvin and his wife had to temporarily live in an apartment complex and as Calvin […]

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When You Are at the Front Door & God Uses the Side

May 14, 2019 By Home Missions

Have you caught an update in Home Missions Today or on Facebook about what’s happening at Grace Fellowship OPC in Huron, Ohio with church planter Larry Oldaker? After an extended season of discouragement, God is bringing another congregation in the area to join and be a part of Grace Fellowship. They have 21 people in […]

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Stories From the Field: Sharing Christ in a Coffee House

March 19, 2019 By Home Missions

Here is a great example of loving your neighbor for the sake of the of the gospel in everyday, “simple” life. We love this example: —————————————————————————————————— While working as a coffee house barista, I gradually learned an important lesson: a barista is more than just a barista. Often, you are the individual that people look […]

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Stories From the Field: San Antonio – True Love Sunday

March 12, 2019 By Home Missions

Last month, Pastor Andrew Moody and San Antonio Reformed took the opportunity to have an intentional outreach for their worship service on the Sunday before Valentine’s Day. They called it “True Love Sunday.” The description on the Facebook event page first caught our eye: They provided members with a card to invite people: Members invited […]

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Stories From the Field: Neon, KY

October 2, 2018 By Home Missions

Readers of New Horizons may have seen the article on the church in Neon, KY a couple of months ago (p.13 of this pdf: New Horizons August 2018). This week’s Stories from the Field digs a little deeper into the outreach mentioned in that article which has been fundamental to the development of Neon Reformed […]

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Stories From the Field: Normal Life

September 11, 2018 By Home Missions

We have been sharing some more formal outreach efforts by OPC churches, but as we all know there are opportunities all around us in “normal life.” Sometimes God takes the most mundane aspects of life and turns them into moments of eternal significance. In today’s examples, eating dinner and taking a walk. We share these […]

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Stories From the Field: Hamilton, NJ

August 22, 2018 By Home Missions

What comes to mind when you hear the word “evangelism”? Do you imagine a scenario where a Christian shares the gospel with a total stranger? While this is not uncommon, it is certainly not the only way evangelism takes place. It is also not uncommon for many Christians to feel frightened by the thought of […]

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Outward Stories From the Field: San Francisco

May 15, 2018 By Home Missions

A man walked up and asked, “Do you have free Bibles for atheists?” We assured him we did and had a short conversation about how they are really free and we are happy to give one to him. He ended up taking a “Confessing Christ” as well. He seemed pleased that his atheism didn’t faze […]

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Outward Stories From the Field: Sterling, VA

April 17, 2018 By Home Missions

What would it take to get a group of maybe 5 non-Christians along with 5-10 Christians into your home to talk about spiritual things for a few hours every Friday night? For Phil Proctor at Sterling Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Sterling, VA it’s a free dinner and some intentionality. Two months ago, he started a […]

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Outward Stories From The Field: Houston – House to House After Harvey

October 10, 2017 By Home Missions

The October issue of New Horizons includes a well thought out vision of church planting for Houston from Mark Sumpter (You can download the pdf of that issue here: October 2017 New Horizons). As noted, that article was written before the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. Talk about an immediate challenge to your church planting vision! […]

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Looking at Outreach Ideas – Some Collected Examples

September 10, 2017 By Home Missions

In the early stages of developing Outward OPC, one of our goals is to share the stories and ideas of what churches are doing to reach people. Last week at the Regional Church Extension Conference in Orlando this need was again discussed. The chairmen of the Presbytery Missions Committees and our Regional Home Missionaries suggested […]

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