Our Missions

URC Missions
-- A new website devoted to coordinating missions, church planting, and service opportunities within the United Reformed Churches in North America.

Church Plants Pastored by Former Members
Christ United Reformed Church (Santee, CA)
-- Pastored by Rev. Michael Brown.

Providence Reformed Church (Des Moines, IA)
-- Pastored by Rev. Jody Lucero.

United Reformed Church of Sunnyside (Sunnyside, WA)
-- Pastored by Mr. Shane Lems (ordination pending).

Church Planting
Kauai Reformation Church (Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii)

Foreign Missions
Mission Trinidad
-- An exciting mission work by Rev. Steve McGee, whose blog may be read here.

Seminaries
Westminster Seminary California
-- Faculty includes URCNA ministers W. Robert Godfrey, Michael Horton, and R. Scott Clark

Guidelines for Missions Support
The Council of the Oceanside United Reformed Church, in gratitude for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and in obedience to His Great Commission, hereby adopts the following guidelines for missions support, in order to build Christ’s kingdom and be good stewards with the blessings He has given to us:

1. The Council will primarily support the work of home missions/church planting.

Grounds:
1) We have a special link to church planting because of our congregation’s history;
2) There is a great need, especially in Southern California, for confessionally Reformed churches;
3) The present time seems to be one of great opportunity to plant churches;
4) There is an eagerness of our sister churches to plant churches;
5) Our proximity to Westminster Seminary California’s resources (students, professors) makes us a prime overseeing consistory;
6) Church planting involves our membership in supporting, planning, and praying for church planting.

2. The church planter/ missionary must be confessionally Reformed.

3. The church planter/ missionary must be gifted and capable for the work.

4. The church planter/ missionary must be sent by a confessionally Reformed church to either work in and with a local mission church/church plant or being working to begin a mission church/church plant.

5. The church planter/ missionary has an initiative to be accountable to us as a supporting church.

6. The church planter/ missionary has an outstanding need for support.

Application:
1) We will assess their budgetary need;
2) We will assess their other sources of income.

7. The church planter/ missionary has a long-term plan.

Application:
1) We must ask and be satisfied with their short/long-term goals;
2) We must ask and be satisfied with how our resources will be used.