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Mission at Home and Abroad

In 1993 the General Assembly adopted an insightful, prophetic document presented by Worldwide Ministries, "Mission in the 1990s." It offered five crucial challenges, all of which have as much urgency and relevance now for the PC(USA) as at the beginning of the decade.

by The Presbyterian Outlook
Published: October 1, 2000 |Updated: February 27, 2014

In relation to evangelism I would like to recall two of those commitments.

The first was emphatically reaffirmed in another benchmark document adopted by the 211th General Assembly (1999) in Fort Worth, "A Vision for Church Growth in the PC(USA)": "We declare the United States (including Puerto Rico) to be a mission field."

What does that mean? The 1999 report explains:

Every Presbyterian congregation is called to: be a mission outpost;...

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