Church planting in North America
Home Missions
The work of home missions (or church planting) in the URCNA occurs primarily at the local level, with congregations and classes engaging in this work across North America. Every one of our classes has its own committee on home missions.
The SCHM
The URCNA also has a Synodical Committee on Home Missions (SCHM) to promote church planting across the federation. The SCHM is composed of eight men who each represent their classis, and it exists to coordinate church planting resources and information among the classes and churches of the federation.
Below you can find information about all of our current home missionaries in the URCNA.
Home missionaries
Sanborn, Iowa
Misiones Iowa
Rev. Elijah Anderson
Misiones Iowa engages in outreach to Spanish-speaking people throughout Northwest Iowa, and encourages local churches to be faithful to the work of evangelism. Currently, this is accomplished through Spanish Bible studies, chaplaincy, translation services and Spanish worship services.
Lacombe, Alberta
Redemption Prison Ministry
Rev. Mitchell Ramkissoon
Bringing the hope of the gospel to the incarcerated through Bible Studies, Chapels, and one-on-one visits. My work takes me into Federal and Provincial prisons, Remand Centers and Half-way Houses.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indy Reformed Church
Rev. Austin Reifel
Indy Reformed is a church plant located in Indianapolis, IN, and is a mission work of Zeltenreich Reformed Church in New Holland, PA. What began as a small Bible study has, by God’s grace, grown into a vibrant and committed core group. The church continues to develop both spiritually and numerically as it moves toward organization, with regular Lord’s Day worship services, catechetical instruction, and community outreach.
Ajax, Ontario
Word of Life Ministry
Rev. Brian Zegers
Word of Life Ministry is a mission work among the Muslim communities in the eastern end of the Greater Toronto Area. We proclaim the gospel and show the love of Christ by facilitating Christian-Muslim Discussion Evenings, representing the Christian faith at interfaith events, hosting one-on-one and small group Bible studies, providing counseling and prayer, building relationships through hosting and visiting, by providing Christian literature including A 31 Day Journey through the Bible, and by providing online teaching at True Salaam (True Peace) where we seek to explain the Christian faith to Muslim viewers.
Ontario, California
El Mesías
Rev. Taylor Kern
Rev. Taylor Kern and Rev. Daniel Ventura are joyfully co-laboring in El Mesías, our Spanish-language ministry, where God is at work transforming lives and making disciples of Jesus Christ among Spanish-speaking individuals and families in Ontario and the greater Los Angeles area. Through Spirit-filled worship, intentional outreach, and gospel-centered discipleship, the Lord is growing a strong, Christ-exalting community. We are deeply grateful for your prayers, financial support, and gospel partnership—and we invite you to keep praying as we press on in this exciting work of serving and reaching our neighbors for Christ.
Ontario, California
El Mesías
Rev. Daniel Ventura
Rev. Taylor Kern and Rev. Daniel Ventura are joyfully co-laboring in El Mesías, our Spanish-language ministry, where God is at work transforming lives and making disciples of Jesus Christ among Spanish-speaking individuals and families in Ontario and the greater Los Angeles area. Through Spirit-filled worship, intentional outreach, and gospel-centered discipleship, the Lord is growing a strong, Christ-exalting community. We are deeply grateful for your prayers, financial support, and gospel partnership—and we invite you to keep praying as we press on in this exciting work of serving and reaching our neighbors for Christ.
Madison, Indiana
Madison Reformed Church
Rev. Collin Welch
Madison Reformed Church exists to bring the clear gospel preaching and healthy church life to a region of the Midwest severely lacking a Reformed witness. With the Spirit's blessing, we want to contribute to Reformation in the Ohio Valley and be a church that sets down deep roots, where "it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation" (Psalm 22:30).
Santa Clarita, CA
Santa Clarita United Reformed Church
Rev. Dr. Lee Irons
I was called by First URC Chino in 2023 to serve as the churchplanting pastor of Santa Clarita URC.
Brampton, Ontario
Hope Congregation
Rev. Tony Zekveld
Our aim is to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ primarily among the burgeoning South Asian population. It's also a joy to see people from other ethnic backgrounds join our fellowship.
Florence, Kentucky
Christ Reformed Church
Rev. Dr. J. Brandon Burks
Christ Reformed (URC) is a church plant located between the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter in Northern Kentucky. Ascension Reformed Church in Cincinnati, OH oversees Christ Reformed. The church plant was launched in February of 2024.
DeMotte, IN
Divine Hope Reformed Bible Seminary
Rev. Nathan Brummel
Divine Hope Reformed Bible Seminary is a dedicated prison seminary that provides a four-year program of biblical, doctrinal, church historical, and practical theological education for individuals in custody within Illinois and Indiana prisons.
DeMotte, IN
Divine Hope Reformed Bible Seminary
Rev. Ken Anema
Divine Hope Reformed Bible Seminary is a dedicated prison seminary that provides a four-year program of biblical, doctrinal, church historical, and practical theological education for individuals in custody within Illinois and Indiana prisons.
Ventura, California
Ventura Reformed
Rev. Adam Kaloostian
Ventura Reformed, in Ventura, California, about 75 miles up the coast from downtown Los Angeles, is a URCNA Southwest US Classis church plant of the Pasadena United Reformed Church. The project began in the spring of 2021 when Pasadena URC, having three households that had moved to Ventura, called and sent Adam and his family to initiate the work. Ventura Reformed began worship services in May 2022, and with God's blessing, took ownership in early 2024 of the former First Lutheran Church campus in midtown.
Scarborough, ON
New Horizon Church
Rev. Mitchell Persaud
We are a multi-ethnic mission church in eastern Toronto area. Our goal is to lead men to Christ and help them grow in grace so they can live for the glory of the Savior.
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Mexicali Reformed Church
Rev. Jared Pine
Mexicali Reformed is a Spanish-speaking church plant of the URCNA serving a community along the U.S.–Mexico border. Overseen by Christ Reformed Church (Anaheim, CA), this mission work has begun weekly Bible study meetings in the home of church planter Jared Pine as it seeks to establish a faithful Reformed witness in Mexicali and the surrounding region.
St. Catharines, Ontario
Pathway of Peace
Rev. Thabet Megaly
Our outreach begins with proclaiming God’s Word. Through English and Arabic broadcasts, we reach millions across North America, the Middle East, and closed countries—engaging Islamic thinkers, strengthening believers, and answering spiritual questions. We also equip churches and Christians to share the gospel through focused training courses.
New York City, New York
Messiah’s Reformed Fellowship
Rev. Paul T. Murphy
Rev. Murphy is the full time evangelist/church planter for our church.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
River of Life
Rev. Richard Bultje
Our mission is that that others may hear the good news of Jesus Christ from us, see the results of the good news of Jesus Christ in us and through faith in Jesus Christ be included in Jesus' worshiping community. We hope that as a church plant, other sinners will l be drawn into the truth of who God is as a just God who has shown His love to us in Jesus Christ so that they can join us to be a light and a salt in this dark world.
Sioux Falls, SD
Providence Reformed Church
Rev. Benjamin Davenport
Providence Reformed Church is a URCNA church plant, currently meeting at the McCrossan Boys Ranch Visitor Center in northwest Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We desire to be known for biblical preaching, reverent worship, and joyful fellowship.
Montague, California
Big Springs Community Church
Rev. Nollie Malabuyo
We are a congregation of believers who are united not by cultural practices, consumer preferences, or political parties, but by one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God the Father of all. We confess Jesus Christ, God the Son, as the only Savior and the Sovereign Lord over all of life. We believe that God the Holy Spirit indwells, teaches, guides, and comforts all believers. We are affiliated with the United Reformed Churches, a federation rooted in the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
Brampton, Ontario
Hope Reformed Church
Rev. Eric Heida
Hope Reformed Church is committed to the work of the gospel in one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most diverse cities. Rev. Eric Heida serves as Pastor-Evangelist, laboring in prayer, the preaching of the Word, and the work of evangelism. The mission is to engage, evangelize, and establish the ever-increasing immigrant population of Brampton, while equipping the saints of Hope Reformed to participate faithfully in the mission of Christ.
Central Oregon
Central Oregon United Reformed Church
Mr. Brennan Kiledjian · Stated pulpit supply
The Consistory of Immanuel’s Reformed Church in Salem, in cooperation with four churches of the Classis of the Pacific Northwest that comprise the Joint Venture Committee, began holding called services in March 2026, with Brennan Kiledjian serving as Stated Pulpit Supply. The JVC congregations provide elders on a rotating basis to exercise oversight each Lord’s Day, as well as a minister once each month to administer the sacraments. The work currently includes five core families and several regular visitors. In response to interest expressed by a number of these visitors, the Consistory of Immanuel’s Reformed Church has authorized a new members’ course.