Annual Report for 2012

Thanks be to God for the donors and donations he raised up for the Foundation for Reformed Theology in 2012, our thirtieth year! I am grateful to be able to report that we celebrated our anniversary by receiving gifts of $107,465. This was an increase of $12,000 over the previous year and of $24,000 over the year before that.

Please join me in thanking all our donors for last year-the most in any year yet!-as recognized on the enclosed report, "Honoring Donors for 2012." We are also grateful to have added to that report a new category of givers, "Supporting Congregations."

Your gifts have made it possible for us to reach more ministers and members, to help them recover the historic faith of the Reformed church, and so to help build up the congregations they serve through better preaching, better teaching, and better pastoral care in 2012.

For instance, your gifts have made it possible us to conduct fifteen ministerial seminars in 2012. This is five more seminars than the year before and is the most in any year of our program, at least for which I have records. These week long and ongoing communities of guided study in Reformed theology met all around the country. As you know, we reimburse  expenses for room, board, and travel in order for participants to attend these seminars.

As a part of this, we welcomed two new ministerial seminar leaders into our program in 2012. Ms. Kelsy N. Brown, pastor of Altavista Presbyterian Church of Altavista, Virginia, led a new seminar of young ministers all recently graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and meeting at Pittsburgh. Dr. James R. M. Young, now designated pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Waynesboro, Virginia, led a new seminar of ministers from various seminaries and serving in various states, and they also met at Pittsburgh.

This continues as we welcome Dr. Walter L. Taylor, pastor of Oak Island Presbyterian Church of Oak Island, North Carolina, as a new seminar leader in 2013. Walter is recruiting seminar members now and planning to meet at Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina. We are also actively recruiting additional seminar leaders and members.

Beyond these seminars, your gifts also have made it possible for us to continue to offer publications of Reformed theology to readers around the world, and your gifts have made it possible for us to continue in conversation with authors for more such publications.

Your gifts have made it possible for us to expand our website on the Internet and through that to provide help and resources to people around the world. For instance, hundreds of people have joined in our plan to read through John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion this year, and we are discussing the readings each day on Facebook.

Your gifts also have made it possible for us to continue to support Mr. Thomas Christian "Chris" Currie in his Ph.D. studies in Reformed Theology at the University of Edinburgh.

The board of directors, at its annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, adopted a resolution of gratitude to Mr. Hebert H. "Herb" Browne, Jr., for his fourteen years of service as a director. Herb is an elder at First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte and is the attorney who devised both our Articles of Incorporation and our Bylaws. The board also welcomed Mrs. Stanley W. "Paula" Baker, an elder from First Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg, South Carolina, onto the board as a new director.

With 2012 complete, we now look ahead to 2013. As we are grateful for increased support in the year and years past, so we now continue to seek, and to ask you for, even more increasing support this year and beyond. The Foundation has increasing opportunities and therefore growing responsibilities to serve the church at this time, and your continuing and increasing support can make it possible for us to do so.

As you know, it is the mission of the Foundation for Reformed Theology to recover the historic faith of the Reformed church so as to apply it to the life of the church today. The church needs that now more than ever. It is our annual giving that makes it possible for us to fulfill this mission, to do our work, and to expand our program to reach more ministers and more congregations in the future. For instance:

     A gift of $1,000 could send one minister to a seminar;
     A gift of $5,000 could send five ministers to a seminar;
     A gift of $25,000 could provide for five seminars of five ministers each;
     A gift of $50,000 could provide for ten seminars of five ministers each; and
     A gift of $100,000 could provide for one seminar of five ministers in perpetuity.

Please let me know if you have any questions about our mission, work, program, or funding. I would appreciate the opportunity to try to answer them. And please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions for the same. I would be grateful to receive them.

Moreover, please let me know if I may come visit with you and with others from the church you serve in order to promote the mission and work of the Foundation for Reformed Theology.

Thank you for your faith, your faithfulness, and your generosity. May you have the very best New Year ever!   

Honoring Donors for 2012

To thank and honor all who made gifts to the Foundation in 2012, totaling $107,465, the following gift societies have been established:

John Calvin Society ($1,000 and up)

$5,000 and up:

Anonymous Donor

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Bradford

Mrs. Lewis M. Fetterman, Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Goodloe IV

Ms. Caroline H. Leith

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Norris, for education

Mr. and Mrs. W. McIlwaine Thompson, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Thompson III

$2,000-$4,999:

Dr. and Mrs. Carl K. McMillin

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Nevin

Mr. and Mrs. G. Jacob Savage III

Dr. and Mrs. William T. Stuart, Jr.

The Reverend Dr. David J. and Dr. Jennifer Wood

$1,000-$1,999:

Anonymous Donor

Anonymous Donor

Anonymous Donor

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Baker

Mr. and Mrs. S. Powell Bridges

Mr. and Mrs. Mohammad Chaudhry

Mr. and Mrs. Madison M. Long

Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. D. Peters

The Reverend Mr. and Mrs. James W. White, Jr.

John Knox Society ($500-$999)

Anonymous Donor

Mr. Richard L. Brooks

Mr. Herbert H. Browne, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. John P. Burgess

Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. Burnett

Mr. T. Hal Clarke

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Francis

Mrs. Thomas Gettys (Mary W. Gettys)

Mr. James M. Hodsden

Mr. Jerry W. Houchens

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Miller

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Moffett

Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Morris III

Dr. Susan P. Shimp

Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Sizemore

Dr. Robert T. Turner

John Leith Society (up to $250)

Mrs. Charles W. Appich, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. James B. Ayers

Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Beaver

Mr. William H. Berger and Ms. Sara J. Hughes

Dr. Thomas J. Biery

The Reverend Mr. Charles E. and

     The Reverend Mrs. Nancy Blakely

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Bordeaux, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Sim Boyd, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Clay J. Brown

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bullock, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Cardwell III

Mr. and Mrs. R. Steven Christy

Mr. David R. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. William N. Clark, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Corll

Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Cumer, in memory of her father,

     Mr. William A. "Pete" Prosser III

Mr. Howard A. Curle, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Currie

Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Darnell

Mr. David M. Dudley

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dudley

Dr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Evans

The Reverends Dr. Quinn and Nancy Fox

Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Fuller, Jr.

Dr. Connolly C. Gamble

Dr. Mary R. Goodloe

Mr. and Mrs. B. Kelly Graves

Dr. and Mrs. David H. Green

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gregory

Mr. Douglas Griffith

Ms. Elizabeth G. Haga

Ms. Rachel E. Hamburger

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hazelwood

Mrs. Nancy Thomas Hill

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Holt

Mr. and Mrs. Johnny R. Hoover

Ms. Betty H. Hudson

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. M. Hampton Hunter III

Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Ingram

Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Jeffreys

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Johnson

Ms. Wilana Kemp Madden

Dr. Kenneth J. Macari

Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Marsden, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry May

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice F. Menefee, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Moore

Mr. William L. Moore, Jr., in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Goodloe III

Mr. Michael and the Reverend Dr. Catherine M. Northrup

Dr. and Mrs. Hughes Oliphant Old

Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Owens

Ms. Elizabeth H. Powell

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Powell, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Ashby W. Price

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Rashley

Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Raynal III

Ms. Rosemary Rector

Ms. Julie C. Schaaf

Dr. and Mrs. William P. Seel

Ms. Eleanor F. Shull

Dr. J. Ben Sloan

The Reverend Dr. Joseph D. and Elder Valerie Small

Mrs. R. Monroe Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Smoak

Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Spofford

Ms. Peggy D. Warlick

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Weatherman

Mr. Brian L. Whitley

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Williamson, Jr.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Wilson

Mr. Stephen P. Wilson

Dr. William P. Wood, Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. William G. Young

Supporting Congregations

Anchorage Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Kentucky,

     Mr. Dee H. Wade, Pastor

Douglas Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, South Carolina,

     Dr. G. Harriss Ricks, Jr., Interim Pastor

Easley Presbyterian Church, Easley, South Carolina,

     Dr. William P. Seel, Pastor

First Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville, North Carolina,

     Dr. John W. Coker, Pastor

First Presbyterian Church, Spartanburg, South Carolina,

     in honor of Dr. William P. Wood, Interim Pastor

Forest Park Presbyterian Church, Statesville, North Carolina,

     Mr. W. Scott Jeffreys, Pastor

Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Endowment Fund, Richmond, Virginia,

     Mr. Brint Pratt Keyes, Interim Pastor

Mattoax and Pine Grove Presbyterian Churches, Amelia, Virginia,

     Dr. James C. Goodloe IV, Temporary Supply Pastor

Quail Hollow Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina,

     Dr. Augustus E. Succop III, Pastor

Trinity Presbyterian Church, Fairhope, Alabama,

     Mr. Matthew S. McCollum, Pastor, and

     Mr. Brian C. Coulter, Associate Pastor

Valley Presbyterian Church, Imperial, Pennsylvania,

     Dr. Jeri-Lynne Bouterse, Pastor

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