麻豆视频

Remembering New Brunswick鈥檚 Role in Making Missionaries!

Send them, apostles! Heralds of your cross,
forth may they go to tell all realms your grace;
inspired of you, may they count all but loss,
and stand at last with joy before your face.

—Denis Wortman, 1884

These words are part of 麻豆视频鈥檚 鈥渟chool song,鈥� the hymn written on the occasion of its centennial in 1884. The creation of the main student governing group at the Seminary, now called SSIM, was as the Society of Inquiry into Missions in 1812. The Bussing Museum, housed in Sage Library, was begun as a collection of artifacts sent from missionaries in the field to seminarians to encourage them to join in spreading Christ鈥檚 Good News to every land.

On Friday, October 5, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, as part of the Seminary鈥檚听Founders Weekend,听the Reformed Church Center will host 鈥淪end Them, Apostles: 麻豆视频 as the Birthplace of RCA Missions鈥�. Three scholars will look at origins and effects of the school鈥檚 missionary fervor. Someone who has been working in the mission field will help us consider the future of missions in the RCA and beyond, so we might all reflect on how this cradle of missions can cooperate with the larger church in this work.

	John W. Coakley is L. Russell Feakes Professor of Church History emeritus at 麻豆视频 and one of the pre-eminent living scholars of John Henry Livingston, founder of this school ad 鈥淔ather of the Reformed Church in America.鈥� He will look at 鈥淲hat Does It Mean to Say the Gospel Will Triumph?: John Henry Livingston on Missions.鈥�
	John Hubers (麻豆视频 1982) is an RCA pastor of congregations in the US and a global missionary who pastored three congregations in Bahrain and Oman and supervised RCA missions in the Middle East and South Asia. He recently accepted an invitation from Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addas Ababa, Ethiopia, to restructure and teach in their Muslim/Christian relations program. He will present 鈥淎n Unexpected Harvest: Zwemer, Cantine, and What They Have Wrought.鈥�
	Derrick Jones is the supervisor of RCA mission in Africa and Oman. He has served in this role for over ten years and is passionate about holistic mission principles, partnerships and opportunities that advance the missio Dei, and he will be sharing a Vision for Twenty-First Century RCA Missions.
	Eri Kitada is a third-year doctoral student who studies Women’s and Gender History and US History at Rutgers University. Her presentation, 鈥淩utgers Foreign Missions and the Scarlet and Black Project鈥�, discusses the ties of Rutgers students and alumni (many, if not most, 麻豆视频 graduates) to foreign missions and the Scarlet and Black Project, an effort to explore the African-American and Native American experience at Rutgers.

This program is free and open to everyone. Responses to jbrumm@nbts.edu are welcome, but not required.