Report of the Domestic Mission Committee

"… the purpose [of missions] is to bring to manifestation the body of Christ by bringing into existence the instituted church." Those were the words of Herman Hoeksema. The year was 1932. The Protestant Reformed Churches, then in their infancy, were wrestling with the vexing question of how to do home missions -- that is, how to do home missions as a denomination of churches. The classis (there was but one classis in the '30s, hence no synod, till 1940) was deeply conscious of its...