Arlindo Marcal, moderator of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Timor Leste (EPC-TL), recently visited Singapore for the first time. While there Marcal met with leaders of the Orchard Road Presbyterian Church and was also interviewed by The Christian Post. The interview contains helpful observations about the general situation in Timor Leste and the particular needs …

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In relation to our partnership in Timor Leste (East Timor) I’ve mentioned the presence of workers from the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. For those who may not have read those accounts, the church is a confessional body, basically equivalent to the Presbyterian Church of Australia. I can’t express the mutual delight felt when one of …

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The Presbyterian Church of Australia, particularly through its Victorian Assembly, has been developing links with churches in Africa, one of which, I believe, is the Presbyterian Church in Malawi. Steve Salyards, at G.A. Junkie (yep, that’s what he calls his blog) has news about arrangements by which “the three synods of the Church of Central …

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There is a temptation within contemporary church planting to take the preferences and tastes of the group or individuals that they are trying to reach and excise as much from the practice and culture of their corporate meetings that may be alien to those people. In Presbyterianism in Australia one can observe a distancing (in …

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