Whether They Will Hear: Domestic Missions

Northern Ireland Though the organization of a church is not the be-all and end-all of the work of missions, there's no denying that the reaching of that goal brings intense satisfaction to the parties involved -- the members of the mission who ask for it, the calling church and the mission committee that evaluate the request, and the synod that finally approves it. With respect to synod, that "intense satisfaction" was clear from the opening lines of its letter to the Covenant Protestant...