Foreign Missions – This Day in Presbyterian History

September 9: The Earth Filled with the Glory of the Lord

In troublesome times, draw ever nearer to your Lord and King, for His promise will, in due time, be fulfilled. Excerpted from The American National Preacher, Sermon 205, preached at Baltimore,…

archivist 9 September, 2017

October 24: Founding of the Western Foreign Missionary Society (1831)

In writing up this post, it will be important to note that this was an independent foreign missionary society. Thus, when the PCUSA issued the Mandate of 1934, they…

archivist 24 October, 2016

April 3: Rev. Elisha P. Swift [1792-1865]

A Heart for Missions Elisha Pope Swift was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on August 12, 1792. His parents were the Rev. Seth and Lucy Elliot Swift. His father was pastor…

archivist 3 April, 2015

February 18: Birth of Walter Macon Lowrie

When God’s Children Come to See Me Walter Macon Lowrie was born on February 18, 1819, and came to saving faith in Christ while in college, in 1834. Like Lyman…

davidtmyers 18 February, 2015

December 8: James Overton Reavis

A Churchman Extraordinaire, with a Heart for Missions James Overton Reavis was born in Florida, Monroe County, Missouri on December 8, 1872 to parents James Overton Reavis and Ellen Roselle…

archivist 8 December, 2014