Member Church News: Welcoming, Reforming, Reflecting

Young people are gathering in South America for AIPRAL’s “The Justice of Christ, Peace in Your Community” initiative. Pastor Yoshinobu Akashi, of the United Church of Christ in Japan, serves in Fukushima, and shared how residents continue to… Read More

Member Church News: Campaigning for Peace, Justice and Creation

Some 500,000 people call for peace by joining hands across the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea. An ecumenical and interfaith coalition in Switzerland, including the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, are calling for the protection of… Read More

Member Church News: Women Leading, Remembering Dort, Youth Celebrating

Women continue to blaze the trail in the Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Tobago. For the third time in succession, a woman has been elected to head the Presbyterian Church. A new stamp commemorating Reformer Huldrych Zwingli is… Read More

Member Church News: Promoting Peace, Caring for Creation, Remembering Dort

On 27 April, some 500,000 people joined hands to form a “human peace chain” along the 500km long Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea. Take a look at a video report on the DMZ human peace chain…. Read More

Member Church News: Caring for Creation, Working for Peace

Eight local churches and the United Reformed Church Synod of Yorkshire have made divestment commitments as part of the Easter Declaration for Fossil Free Churches. The Pastoral Care for the Promotion of Creation Care of the Evangelical Church… Read More

Easter Message: The Immediate Calling

“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” —Psalm 11:3 (NRSV) The beginning of the Psalm speaks dramatically to our context as everything is falling apart for the Psalmist. There is a danger and social disintegration… Read More

Member Church News: Assisting and Advocating

Imagine this scenario: you are 12 years old and almost 2,000 miles away from the only home you’ve ever known. All you want is to be reunited with the family for whom you’ve traveled to the United States…. Read More

Member Church News: Peace accompaniment, renewed commitments

AIPRAL, the WCRC’s Latin American regional council, is accompanying the Christian Reformed Church of Honduras within the framework of the coordination and implementation of the peace program, La Justicia de Cristo—Peace in Your Community. On the 27 March… Read More

Member Church News: Passing, Helping, Celebrating

Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday to say goodbye to Robina Winbush, who died March 12 at age 61. A procession of clergy, accompanied by African drumming, opened the funeral/worship service at Broad Street Presbyterian Church in her… Read More

Member Church News: Empowering Youth, Revitalizing Churches, Training Peacemakers

The Protestant Christian Church in Bali empowers youth to break the cycle of poverty. Many congregations in the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) and the Reformed Church in America (RCA) have expressed a need for renewal…. Read More