As Reformed Confessional Presbyterians, we believe that the Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is our rule of faith and practice. Subordinately, we receive and adopt the confessional standards summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF), the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC), and the Westminster Shorter Catechism (WSC), as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures. In obedience to the scriptural mandate, as uttered from the lips of […]

Prior installments of this series on the next generation of leaders focused on the qualifications of officers of the church, as well as on the importance of prayer in the process of considering and selecting our next officers at Tenth. As the Nominating Committee approaches the latter stages of this year’s work, beginning to interview potential officers and awaiting decisions, we acknowledge common questions and themes that come up in our conversations: the busyness of daily life, the difficulty of […]

A mango fell, bounced of the roof of the Sunday School classroom, and rolled across my toes as I stood in the courtyard of Los Olivos Church in Barranquilla, Colombia waiting for the Bible conference to begin. The moment the mango fell, Alfonzo picked it up and ran off to grab a knife to cut some for everyone. As we stood together eating mangos in the church courtyard, I was struck by the hospitality of the church and the familial […]

In the first part of this series on the next generation of leaders, elder Russell Pfeifer asked the congregation to join the Nominating Committee and current leadership in fervent prayer and reminded us that, “primarily, officer selection is a work of the Holy Spirit and that it is to be founded on earnest prayer.”  As we pray for God to raise up new leaders, we are prompted to remember and give thanks for the men and women whom God has […]

This year, in order to give thanks for God’s providence and the end of slavery in the United States, Tenth Church will sponsor a Jubilee Day cookout at 4pm on Saturday June 17, in what has been used as a parking lot and will soon become a courtyard for fellowship. If it is raining, we will move the event to Fellowship Hall. Please RSVP so we can have an idea for the food order. Let us come and join together […]

You may wonder why Tenth has an afternoon service every Sunday. This is how it came about, and what it is all about. If you have been at Tenth for a while, you may know about Tenth International Fellowship, a worship service that was designed to include our international friends and be sensitive to cross cultural communication and unfamiliarity with Christian worship. More recently, we changed the name to the International Outreach (IO) service. Prior to the start of the […]

“But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain —and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.” Exodus 18:21 Good leadership should always be replicating itself. In Exodus 18 we see that Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, knew that as he gave advice to Moses in finding leaders to help with the oversight of the Israelites as they traveled on their way to the promised land. We at Tenth are continually […]

A couple of weeks ago we started to share regarding Tenth’s Global Partners who will be receiving funds from our Easter Sacrificial Offering this year. In Europe, our partner, Gethin Jones and his wife Katie, will be planting a new church in Lille, France.  Gethin has been serving as a pastor in France for many years, and with the support of their denomination, the International Presbyterian Church, they are launching out to a new city to plant a new church […]

The cluster of villages in the shadows of the Himalayas are an anthropologist’s dream: the exquisite wooden courtyard homes and the fertile lands at eight thousand feet elevation provide shelter and work for the P. peoples, one of the last matriarchal societies in the world. Property rights are handed down through the woman’s lineage and “walking marriage” is practiced widely, where the man visits the woman at night but then returns to his sister’s house the next morning to help […]