Chapell has served as the senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois, since 2013, and has devoted his entire career to pastoring churches and training others to do the same.

PCA missionaries and churches were serving migrants at the border long before the situation was a crisis of unprecedented proportions.

“It’s never been about our plan. It’s always been about gospel transformation through prayer.”

When he was released, Mark Casson believes God called him to his current ministry to call the the Reformed world to prison ministry.

Accardy is blunt about the fact that his congregation doesn’t mirror much of the denomination: “We are not an upper middle-class professional church.”

The SJC ruled that assuming original jurisdiction of a session was not in accordance with BCO 34-1.

“I remember when Jim was serving as moderator at the 12th General Assembly. All though the proceedings, he would take time to stop us to pray, or sing a hymn, especially when things were getting tense.”

At a church down the hill from a disaster, Sunday played out in small moments: a low-flying helicopter, a note slipped to the pastor, a driver looking for nine clients who never arrived.

“We need to listen and learn from them about abuse and what is needed for healing,” Diane Langberg said. “It is incarnational work.”

The ultimate professional high coincided with personal lows for a pitcher who fueled his career with performance-enhancing drugs, amphetamines, and alcohol.