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The Free Christian School is small. It was founded about 30 years ago in the small town of Edgerton, Minnesota, which has a population of about 1000. The society is made up of almost all the members of the local Protestant Reformed Church. Although only 12 families have children in school, the society is made up of 25 families. The budget of the school is set up so that one-half of it is brought up through tuition, and the remainder has to be brought up through church collections and donations.

The purpose of this account is to tell you, in words and pictures, how your magazine reaches you twenty-one times per year. 

There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that the Editorial Staff of the Standard Bearer is the primary and most important department in the preparing of each issue of our publication. However, without the assistance and cooperation of the Board of the R.F.P.A., the proofreader, the printer, and other business men, the presentation of our paper would be impossible. Also, filling a small role in distributing each issue, is your Business Manager. His duties include the mailing of each issue, the mailing of renewal notices each month, and collecting the mail from P.O.

Note: Most of the content of this article is quoted directly from an article written by Mr. Ken Schipper (former student, former Board President, and present parent of two Adams students) in the 1975 Spotlight. This school annual also served as. a commemorative booklet celebrating 25 years of covenant instruction at Adams. Due to the length of that document, much of its content could not be included here. If you are interested in that more complete history (with pictures) of Adams, copies are available at the school for a nominal fee.

Hope School began thirty-three years ago in 1947 with approximately twenty-five society members in a two-room school house with two teachers. Presently the plant includes eleven classrooms, a large library, and an adequate all-purpose room; our teaching staff numbers fourteen and society rolls number some one hundred eighty-eight members. 

Our Christian school of Redlands was first organized in 1934. For seven years, the First Reformed Christian School, as it was then called, was housed in the basement of the original Protestant Reformed Church at the intersection of Lugonia Avenue and Clay Street in north Redlands. The late Rev. G. Vos was very instrumental in the formation of this first Christian grade school established by parents of Protestant Reformed persuasion. The first principal and teacher was Mr. P. R. Zuidema. 

Greetings to you in the name of the Sovereign God and Savior Jesus Christ Who is pleased to gather His church out of all nations of the world. Let me tell you again something about how the Lord is doing this through our ministry as your missionary here in Singapore. It remains evident that the Lord is pouring out a very great blessing upon the preaching of the gospel here. We are amazed by the response to the preaching of the gospel. The numbers at our worship services continue to grow. The saints are growing in their knowledge and love...

The intent of this article is to provide a concise account of the history of the Reformed Witness Hour and a brief look at the present work, of a select committee to seek ways of increasing the effectiveness of the radio broadcasts. 

With considerable hesitation and trepidation I fulfill the request to write about our work in Jamaica. The writer has never been in Jamaica, though he has served on the mission committee for many years and presently is its chairman. For the latter reasons he was asked to write this article.  Much might be written about our mission work in Jamaica. Of necessity, this article must only briefly present the history of this work and some comments upon the work itself. 

Sunday morning. There is an air of eager expectancy among the early arrivals at the Christian School in Bradenton, where the Protestant Reformed Churches are now holding services. Formerly we met in the Manatee River Hotel, but for various reasons we sought a new meeting place and gained consent from the local Christian School Board to use one of the classrooms for our meetings. Those who have come a bit early are eagerly awaiting the arrival of others, especially of new faces, as is experienced every Sunday. This is so different from some of my earlier experiences in mission work.