In order for women who serve their churches in this vital role to connect with each other for support and training, CDM offers an annual Director of Women’s Ministry Conference for full-time and part-time staffers at PCA churches. The conference’s purpose is to encourage and equip these women for their jobs.

“Young men who have been lovingly developed by their dads with a biblical view of manhood have a consistently greater sense of identity, confidence, security, wisdom, and maturity. We see it displayed throughout their work and key relationships.”

The PCA needs confession and dialogue in order to live out the implications of our theological commitments – to pursue the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Such truth-telling is an outworking of what it means to image our Triune God.

We need a fruitful way to engage in public conversation about the issues of the day, Sauls says, and Jesus gave it to us.

Of the 63 overtures submitted to this year’s General Assembly, 42 deal with the confession and repentance of race-related sins.

For too long only a few pastors have tried dealing with the issue of race, but most white PCA pastors did not join their efforts. Now white brothers are entering the conversation, and many of them are offering their stories of messiness and humility.

He served on the Board of Directors of the Pensacola Theological Institute, was one of the five founders of Reformed Theological Seminary and served on the Board of Trustees as Secretary of that institution for 43 years.

A child beginning the Pray for Me Campaign at age 5 could have as many as 45 adults praying for him if he continues through high school. That amounts to nearly 10,000 prayers from adult generations on behalf of one student.

The spoken “Amen” of a brother or sister assures us that we do not stand alone but that our prayer has become “the joint and humble supplication of hundreds of penitent and believing souls, all engaged in pouring out their hearts to the God of salvation.”

What was missing, many believed, was a way to help people find their place in God’s redemptive story. “We wanted to demonstrate that lives are formed and re-formed by that narrative,” Herron said. “We wanted to see the Holy Spirit form a Gospel-centered conscience.”