Many Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are troubled by political upheavals in their home nations. Recent examples are massive disturbances in Kenya (see above) and Pakistan, and the disturbances are not limited to those two nations.

What can Christian societies do to promote civility in their own nations? The book, Hope for the Southern World, offers some answers.

 WRF member Margaret Courtney writes: The church in Vyborg, Russia is a relatively new church. This past year, the people of the church realized that they needed to address the spiritual needs of a growing group of young children. We were able to assist them in developing a Christian Education program.

Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) is a church plant in central Virginia. By the grace of God we are off to a good start, with two weekly worship services in the gym of a private school.

 Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church is a new PCA plant in a highly diverse and rapidly gentrifying part of Atlanta.

One of our greatest desires and prayers has been to build a church that looks increasingly like the kingdom of God, especially in areas that normally fragment the church: race, culture, and socio-economic class.

The Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione (IFED) of Padova, Italy, announces that, after 4 years of intensive work, the Dizionario di teologia evangelica (Dictionary of Evangelical Theology) was has been released and is available to the public.

WRF member Susan Logan writes: How do we encourage women to study the Bible on their own and with others? In my experience this happens best when women discover that Scripture is accessible to them. Such a discovery is often a by-product of a small group working together.

FirstLight, the St. Louis-based ministry reaching out to those struggling with unwanted sexual desires, is holding its annual banquet at Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church in Ballwin, Missouri, on Thursday, February 28, 2008. The main speaker is Nate Larkin, co-founder of the Samson Society.

Grace Community Church (Mertztown, Pennsylvania, USA) has always held to a Reformed understanding of God's sovereignty and human responsibility.

However, we have several members who are struggling with these concepts.

For the past year and a half, WRF member Reformed Theological Seminary has been a participant in Apple's iTunes U program. This program allows educational institutions to make courses and other materials available to a worldwide audience through Apple's iTunes Music Store.

The North American Reformed Seminary (TNARS) is a Reformed Christian seminary and a WRF member that seeks to educate the body of Christ completely free of charge. TNARS enables Christians to get a seminary level education without going into debt (Rom 13:8).

WRF member Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA has undertaken a $4.4 million capital campaign. The Capital Campaign arises naturally from the Strategic Planning Initiative we began in 2005.

 WRF member Gordon Woolard recently made an exploratory trip to French Guiana in NE South America to see if he could start a pastoral training program under the joint auspices of Mission to the World and Ministries in Action.

Highland Theological College (HTC) of Dingwall, Scotland, is very privileged to have received the library of Rutherford House, the Centre for Theological Study and Research, which was established in 1983 by the Scottish Evangelical Research Trust. 

WRF member HaGefen Publishing Company in Israel has just published the first of it’s "Let’s Study" Commentary series in the Hebrew language.

Dr. Wilson Chow, WRF Board of Directors member and Professor at China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong, is teaching a course on Biblical Hebrew this spring semester (2008) at the Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China.