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The denomination began in 1998 as the Confederation of Reformed Evangelicals (CRE). [5] The founding churches were Community Evangelical Fellowship in Moscow, Idaho; Eastside Evangelical Fellowship (Trinity Church) in Bellevue, Washington; and Wenatchee Evangelical Fellowship in Wenatchee, Washington. Its co-founders include Douglas Wilson. [6]
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. (born 1949 [1]) is the former and founding pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] He is the son of Renewal Ministries founders Ray and Anne Ortlund . Ortlund has served in pastoral ministry and is the author of several Bible commentaries and other books.
He served as an associate pastor of Sierra Madre Congregational Church. [15] [16] He next became Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ojai , in Ojai, California [16] where he stayed until 2023. [17] Ortlund is currently serving as a theologian in residence at Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee (an Acts 29 Network affiliated church).
The PRC also has relationships with a small fellowship in New Zealand; the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Australia); a sister church in Northern Ireland, the Covenant Protestant Reformed Church in Ballymena, and Limerick Reformed Fellowship was founded with the help of the PRC and; the Protestant Reformed Churches in Myanmar.
The first person to publish material on covenant renewal worship was James B. Jordan, who began writing on the topic in the early 1990s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2003, Jeffrey Meyers published The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship , and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America adopted a position paper calling for covenant ...
The majority of the original Reformed Church in the United States, which was founded in 1725, merged with Evangelical Synod of North America (a mix of German Reformed & Lutheran theologies) to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1940 (which would merge with the Congregational Christian Churches in 1957 to form the United Church of ...
The Free Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA) is a theologically conservative federation of churches in the Dutch Calvinist tradition with congregations in the United States and Canada. It officially adopted its current name in 1974.
The government of the Canadian Reformed Churches is based on the Church Order [16] adopted by the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). The Canadian Reformed Churches have revised the Church Order to reflect changed circumstances, and to incorporate minor improvements. The revised Church Order follows the principles and structure of the Church Order of ...