Our Missions
- A new website devoted to coordinating missions, church planting, and service opportunities within the United Reformed Churches in North America.
Local Benevolence
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A Christian organization devoted to meeting the needs of the working poor and homeless in North San Diego County through operating an overnight shelter and case management services during the winter months, providing food, supplies, clothing and referrals for the working poor and homeless throughout the year, and conducting a Sunday Chapel Service for our guests.
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The San Diego Regional Taskforce on the Homeless estimates that there are more than 7,500 homeless individuals living in San Diego, and 2,300 outside of the city of San Diego. This includes the chronically homeless, those homeless due to domestic violence, families with children, day laborers, the mentally ill, seniors, substance abusers, veterans, and youth. Of these, over 2000 individuals are living within the cities of Escondido and Oceanside.
Church Plants and Churches Pastored by Former Members
Christ United Reformed Church (Santee, CA)
- Pastored by Rev. Michael Brown.
Providence Reformed Church (Des Moines, IA)
- Pastored by Rev. Jody Lucero.
United Reformed Church of Sunnyside (Sunnyside, WA)
- Pastored by Rev. Shane Lems.
Redeemer Reformation Church (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
- Pastored by Mr. Brian Cochran (ordination in March).
Emmanuel United Reformed Church (Hanford, CA)
- Pastor-elect Mr. Brad Lenzner (ordination pending).
Church Planting
Kauai Reformation Church (Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii)
- Our mission work begun in September 2007.
Foreign Missions
Christians for Armenia
- A Reformed ministry to the country of Armenia, in the Armenian language. Using radio, television, cassettes, and literature to present God's Word from a distinctly Reformed perspective, we seek to lead the Armenian people to a saving knowledge of Christ, and to promote a biblical worldview.
Middle East Reformed Fellowship
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MERF serves the Middle East and North Africa on behalf of Reformed family of churches and believers worldwide through evangelism, radio broadcasting, church planting, leadership training, and diaconal aid.
- An international missions organization led by Rev. Steve McGee that serves the church in bearing authentic witness to Jesus Christ holistically through evangelism, discipleship, theological training, social, educational, medical, and economic development.
Filadelphia Reformed Church (Milan, Italy)
- An exciting mission work by Rev. Andrea Ferrari, overseen by Christ URC, Santee.
- WBM is a Christian ministry that carries the gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations in obedience to the missionary mandate of Matthew 28. Instead of using traditional methods such as sending American missionaries to evangelize and plant churches, WBM endeavors to train indigenous Christian leaders so that they might establish self- supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating churches in Pakistan, Mexico, and Central and Eastern Europe.
- To help meet the spiritual and physical needs of people in the developing world irrespective of race, color, creed, and class in accordance with biblical principles.
Seminaries Serving the URCNA
- Faculty includes URCNA ministers J. Mark Beach, Nelson Kloosterman, Mark Vander Hart, and Cornelis Venema.
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
- Faculty includes ministers of federations with whom the URCNA is an ecclesiastical fellowship: Joel Beeke (Heritage Reformed Congregations) and Gerald Bilkes (Free Reformed Churches in North America).
Westminster Seminary California
- Faculty includes URCNA ministers R. Scott Clark, W. Robert Godfrey, Michael Horton, and Josh Van Ee.
Guidelines for Missions Support
The Council of the Oceanside United Reformed Church, in gratitude for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and in obedience to His Great Commission, hereby adopts the following guidelines for missions support, in order to build Christ’s kingdom and be good stewards with the blessings He has given to us:
1. The Council will primarily support the work of home missions/church planting.
Grounds:
1) We have a special link to church planting because of our congregation’s history;
2) There is a great need, especially in Southern California, for confessionally Reformed churches;
3) The present time seems to be one of great opportunity to plant churches;
4) There is an eagerness of our sister churches to plant churches;
5) Our proximity to Westminster Seminary California’s resources (students, professors) makes us a prime overseeing consistory;
6) Church planting involves our membership in supporting, planning, and praying for church planting.
2. The church planter/ missionary must be confessionally Reformed.
3. The church planter/ missionary must be gifted and capable for the work.
4. The church planter/ missionary must be sent by a confessionally Reformed church to either work in and with a local mission church/church plant or being working to begin a mission church/church plant.
5. The church planter/ missionary has an initiative to be accountable to us as a supporting church.
6. The church planter/ missionary has an outstanding need for support.
Application:
1) We will assess their budgetary need;
2) We will assess their other sources of income.
7. The church planter/ missionary has a long-term plan.
Application:
1) We must ask and be satisfied with their short/long-term goals;
2) We must ask and be satisfied with how our resources will be used.