Reformed Believers Publishing is excited to announce that plans have been completed for the first annual meeting of RBP. Here are the details:

Date and time: Thursday, October 15, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

Event location: The business office of Reformed Believers Publishing at 

325 84th St. SW, Suite 102

Byron Center, MI 49315

Speeches:

A Believer’s Paper: The Freedom of Sword and Shield—Rev. A. Lanning

Remarks regarding Sword and Shield and RBP—Rev. M. VanderWal

Remarks regarding Sword and Shield and RBP—Rev. N. Langerak

Because there are currently restrictions on the number of people allowed for an indoor public gathering, the meeting will be an outdoor event held under a tent canopy. If you know you will be attending the annual meeting in person, please RSVP to office@reformedbelieverspub.org by October 10. If you do not RSVP, you are still more than welcome to attend the meeting, but an RSVP will help the board plan adequate accommodations and refreshments.

The annual meeting will be livestreamed for the benefit of those who cannot attend in person. The livestream can be accessed through the website: reformedbelieverspub.org.

An invitation to join Reformed Believers Publishing is once again extended to all Reformed believers. Because of the unique venue and circumstances of the annual meeting, there has been a slight change in plans for how members will be received. New membership requests will not be voted on at the meeting but will be voted on through email a couple of days prior to the meeting and announced at the meeting. This means that the deadline for membership requests is October 10. If you desire to join RBP as a member, please submit the membership request form, which is available at reformedbelieverspub.org, by October 10.

We are thankful to God for making this first annual meeting possible, and we look forward to seeing you there.

We hope that you enjoyed the special “Letters Edition” of Sword and Shield last month. The letters showed that there is great interest in the pressing matters that our churches are facing, whether it be COVID-19 and the church’s response to it, or the doctrinal controversy within the Protestant Reformed Churches. We continue to invite the readers of Sword and Shield to send in letters for publication.

With this issue, we return to the normal publication schedule of Sword and Shield on the first of each month. This is also the last of the free bonus issues that were made possible by your generous donations. Thank you again to all who contributed to this cause. Beginning with the next issue in November, Sword and Shield will be sent only to subscribers. See reformedbelieverspub.org, where you can subscribe to the print version, the digital version, or both. Whether you subscribed at the very beginning or are just doing so now, your annual subscription fee will be applied beginning in November.

With that, we hope to see you at our annual meeting. And we hope that you profit from this issue of Sword and Shield. May God speed the truths written herein to your heart, and the next issue into your hands.