August 31: Honor Your Pastor
This Is How You Say Goodbye : Paying Due Respect to a Beloved Pastor. When the War ended in 1865, the Rev. Thomas D. Witherspoon answered a call to serve the…
August 30: Samson Occom
The Presbyterian Pastor was an American Indian by Rev. David T Myers His name was Samson Occom. He was an American Indian, a member of the Mohegan nation, and a…
August 29: Robert James Dodds, D.D.
Missionary to Syria A timely reminder to pray for the Christians in Syria Robert James Dodds was born near Freeport, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on August 29, 1824. His parents were…
August 28: God’s Key Men in World Situations
At the PCA Historical Center, we've been preparing an author-title index to the THE INDEPENDENT BOARD BULLETIN, the official publication of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, an organization…
August 27: Gideon Blackburn
Quite a Remarkable Man, Spent for the Gospel. Drawing again from Alfred Nevin’s Presbyterian Encyclopedia (p. 75), we read of the Rev. Gideon Blackburn: Gideon Blackburn was born in Augusta…