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Please join us for worship
this Sunday at 6:00 p.m.
We will meet in Room B of The Dow Center.
Morning Prayer service meets at 10:15 a.m.
in the Hillsdale College Chapel
Brief
Background of the Mission Work
Hillsdale, Michigan, is the epicenter of a region signally lacking in confessional Reformed churches. There are four Orthodox Presbyterian churches, three Presbyterian Church in America churches, one Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America and one Reformed Church in the United States that are between 70-100 minutes from Hillsdale. There is a Christian Reformed Church in Jackson and an Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Battle Creek, but otherwise there are no confessional Reformed churches available.
Over the years the OPC's Presbytery of Michigan and Ontario has received occasional inquiries from southern Michigan, asking about the possibility of starting an Orthodox Presbyterian congregation in the area, but nothing developed.
More recently, several college professors with backgrounds in the OPC - including a ruling elder, have moved to the area to work at Hillsdale College. Contact with the denomination and Grace Reformed OPC in Walkerton, Indiana, resulted in an inquiry about starting an Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Hillsdale.
On September 22, 2007, the Presbytery of Michigan and Ontario of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church approved the petition of a group of professors and students to begin a mission work in Hillsdale, Michigan, by the name of Hillsdale Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Grace Reformed
OPC in Walkerton, Indiana, is our mother church, utilizing an overseeing session
of John Deliyannides, Richard Gamble, and Peter
Wallace.
For more information see our About us page
A
picture of some of those who joined us on our first Sunday (October 14,
2007)
Photo by Bill Landow
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