Blog Archives: January 2019 — December 2019

The above is often quoted out of context, when someone has noted a particularly wise statement made by a small child. However, when we consider this quotation from Psalm 8, we should be awed and amazed at the value God places on children and on their understanding and faith. The Psalm says: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise, because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. Christ quoted ...

Elizabeth and I (Isaac) actually met rather awkwardly through an online dating application. We had both struggled to find suitable partners for marriage within our own circle of friends as well as the churches that we attended. When we were matched, Elizabeth almost chose not to start a conversation with me due to my being in the Army as her career didn’t lend well to moving a lot. I also had reservations about her, namely that she was a Southern Baptist. Once we both got over these issues, we discovered how clearly God had intended us to ...

Laura and I (Joshua) began attending the Presbyterian Church of Wellsville about one year ago. We were enjoying the Labor Day weekend at a local campground and were hoping to find a faithful church that was close by. Upon arriving, we found the people of Wellsville PCA to be very welcoming, and the preaching to be thoroughly themed with Christ and His work of redemption. A refreshing reminder of God’s faithfulness to His people marked our first impression of Wellsville PCA. We decided to become members shortly thereafter. Neither Laura nor ...

I hope this last year has gone well for you. This year has been good to me and I have seen God's faithfulness in my life. I guess I just wanted you to tell you a little bit of what has happened in the last year. My first year at Dallas International University (which was formerly called GIAL when I applied to the school) went really well and I am preparing to start my next year there, which will hopefully end with me completing my Master's Degree in World Arts with a concentration in Linguistics next May. I have had the privilege of serving ...

On every Sunday that an infant in our church is baptized, Pastor Tom prays that God blesses the infant “so they will never be able to remember a time that they did not know the LORD.” I can say with all honesty that I feel my wife and I have been blessed in such a way. There certainly have been times of immaturity in both of our lives, as well as our fair share of disobedience. Overall however, God has been guiding us in His providence. I was originally baptized into a PC-USA church, Cassie into a United Methodist one. By middle school, my ...

This verse was one that God brought to my heart during my missions trip to the Dominican Republic. Ever since then, I have been able to see how this truth has tied together different aspects of my life to reflect God’s grace. The first part of the verse talks about letting my roots grow down into Him. I had grown up in a non-denominational church, where facilitating connections and having a servant’s heart were instilled into me for as long as I could remember. My parents were always so hospitable to everyone we had come to know, especially ...

Barbara: John was born in the Netherlands and immigrated with his family to the US in 1948. His family lived in Minnesota for five years and then moved to New Jersey. I was born in New Jersey. We met in 1964 and we were married in 1966. We became members of the Christian Reformed Church in Newton, New Jersey. John has been a deacon and elder in our former church. He also worked with the young people’s group and taught catechism to high school students. He served as president of the Christian school board. I was involved in the ladies school ...

I am a fourth-generation missionary. I grew up in rural northern Bangladesh with my parents, grandparents, and two younger siblings. I say rural, but the region has a population density higher than that of Toronto. The country contains a population half the size of the United States’ in a land area about equal to that of Illinois. About eighty percent of those people are Muslim, twenty Hindu, and less than one percent are either Christian or Buddhist. This upbringing hewed out the rough contours of my life. My aim since I was about ten has ...