The three-self formula and PRCA foreign missions (6)
This article examines the Protestant Reformed Churches in America's foreign mission work in Ghana (1996-2006), specifically analyzing how the PRCA implemented the three-self formula in establishing this mission field. The resource provides historical documentation of PRCA missionary efforts and the unique approach taken in Ghana, which differed from their previous mission work in Jamaica and Singapore by beginning without a pre-existing core group of believers.
Previous article in this series: January 15, 2022, p. 185. A third example of the PRCA's commitment to the three-self formula in foreign missions is her work in Ghana, West Africa. After many years of contact with individuals in Accra, Kumasi, and some other places in Ghana and according to the reports of several emissaries that visited these contacts in Ghana in the early 1990s, in June 1996 synod approved opening Ghana as a PRCA foreign mission field and the sending of foreign missionaries...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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