Some former, retired and current PCC missionaries to Taiwan met at a cottage in Bracebridge, Ont., last summer for fellowship. Back row, from left to right, Terry Samuel, Paul McLean, Murray Garvin. Center row, Marilyn Ellis, Mary Beth McLean, Joy Randall, Wilma Welsh, Diane (Petrie) Osborn, Mary Helen Garvin. Front row, Louise Gamble, Betty Geddes, Jack Geddes, Grace McGill, Marie Wilson.”;

An evangelical Nigerian preacher believes he has the ultimate counter-terrorism tool and wants the United Nations to take heed. "The secret of a successful battle against terrorism lies in sending Christian missionaries into the Middle East. It is only the Christian Gospel that can bring down hatred," Dr. Panya Baba stressed at a meeting organized by the Evangelical Church of West Africa. "The United Nations should ask member nations to contribute to mission work. Missionaries are doing better in bringing peace into the world.

Ormsby Presbyterian Church, known affectionately as "the little church on the rock," celebrated its 100th anniversary on August 15 in Ormsby, Ont. Former Presbyterian Church in Canada moderator Rev. Arthur Currie was the special guest. Kevin Martin, whose great, great grandfather donated the land for the church building, preached the sermon.

The construction of an eye-popping new building for the Ghanaian Presbyterian Church of Toronto has begun.

Like any other church, Knox, St. Thomas, Ont., values all its members and adherents. Age or tenure matter not – we simply enjoy having everyone with us each week. However, at the beginning of last summer, it came to our attention in rather short order that we had two very remarkable women in our midst.

Millions of red locusts have swarmed into the Holy Land conjuring up Biblical images as they ate palm trees bare, feasted on crops and even settled on the shores of the Dead Sea.

Two churches in Thorold, Ont., sustained extensive fire damage within one week of each other in November. Fire officials and police have deemed the fires at St. Andrew's Presbyterian and St. John's Anglican "suspicious". No one was injured.

Glad Tidings, the bimonthly magazine of the Women's Missionary Society, is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2005. The magazine is sent across the country and around the world to places such as Nigeria, Central America, India and Ghana.

Asian churches need to think less about the bricks and mortar and more about spiritualizing, Dr. Ahn Jae Woong, general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia, told his colleagues at a conference.

Africa's Anglican bishops have ended their first continent-wide gathering by reiterating what they said was their "biblical position" in the controversy within the worldwide Anglican communion about homosexuality.

A 32-year-old rivalry between presbyteries in Taiwan has finally ended in reconciliation. Over 10,000 members of the Kaohsiung and Longevity Mountain Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan gathered for reconciliation. Members from the presbyteries' 138 congregations met at National Kaohsiung University for a worship service. PCT General Secretary William J.K. Lo preached the sermon. The two presbyteries were the result of a split in 1972 over issues of polity. Twenty-four churches left the Kaohsiung Presbytery for the newly formed Longevity Mountain.