Remembering Rev. Woudenberg / A question about reporting sexual abuse
Barry Gritters shares a personal testimony of how he encountered the Protestant Reformed Church through Rev. Bernard Woudenberg's ministry and materials in the late 1980s, describing his spiritual journey that led him to join Covenant PRC in New Jersey. The article also raises important questions about how the PRC denomination should respond to and report cases of sexual abuse within its churches, particularly in light of historical matters involving church leadership.
Remembering Rev. Woudenberg I was very happy to see the "In Memoriam" article on the late Rev. Bernard Woudenberg, written by Prof. Douglas Kuiper in the SB of October 1, 2022. One morning after an Orthodox Presbyterian church service (I was, in the late 1980's a member there), a bearded young man who was visiting the church approached to offer me three pamphlets, which I found out later were some of the little white pamphlets published by the PRC years earlier. This fellow was then receiving...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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