Classis West Report
This report documents the March 2013 meeting of Classis West of the Protestant Reformed Churches, including administrative business such as committee appointments, synodical delegate elections, and subsidy approvals for member congregations. The article reflects on how God's providence governs even the plans of church assemblies, as exemplified by unexpected deaths and travel disruptions that affected the meeting's participants.
Classis West met in regular session on March 6, 2013. The congregation in Lynden, WA hosted this meeting, as well as the officebearers' conference the previous day -- a commemoration of the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism. God reminds us that we must make all our plans subject to His will. One minister busied himself on Tuesday preparing a funeral speech; another minister and an elder had to return home early because of the death of the elder's father; and another elder never...
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