The next is a press release from Irwyn Ince, coordinator of Mission to North America (MNA):
Mission to North America (MNA) serves the PCA for the development of Christ’s kingdom via our church buildings within the U.S. and Canada. We do that via a two-pronged concentrate on church planting and church vitality. Our church planting efforts facilitate beginning and supporting new PCA church buildings. Our church vitality efforts present ministry assets that allow our church buildings to develop of their outward-facing missional engagement of their communities, loving neighbors as our Lord instructions (Matt 22:39). One such long-standing MNA ministry is our Refugee and Immigrant Ministry (RIM).
Lately, we posted hyperlinks on our webpage to exterior organizations providing a variety of suggestions and often requested questions on immigration. MNA’s management erroneously allowed the posting of content material that suggested undocumented individuals on methods to keep away from being detained by authorities. We affirm that it’s our Christian obligation to obey the lawful instructions of the civil Justice of the Peace and be topic to their authority (WCF 23.4; Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-14). To counsel in any other case is a sin. We confess that we fell in need of our Biblical and Confessional customary. We repent and apologize. We additionally apologize for inflicting confusion and consternation in our church. We have now eliminated all of the beforehand posted info from our web site.
MNA’s Refugee & Immigrant Ministry, together with different MNA ministries, seeks to serve our church buildings with assets that allow them to faithfully observe our Lord’s name to like the stranger. Nevertheless, MNA doesn’t have interaction in offering authorized recommendation, political campaigning or partisan positions. The data we publish going ahead will present ecclesiastical assets in step with our Confession for steerage on the matter.
The MNA Everlasting Committee is holding its Spring Assembly throughout the first week of March and this concern is docketed for additional centered dialogue as a part of the Committee’s common oversight of MNA’s ministries. The Committee does this work on behalf of the Common Meeting of the PCA, which meets yearly in June.
