Three noteworthy events mark the dawn of United States history--the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia; the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts; and the establishment of New Amsterdam, now New York City, by Dutch colonists.
Commercial reasons, not religion, compelled the Dutch to settle the area. But with these pioneers came their church--a church that has survived on these shores continuously for nearly four hundred years--the Reformed Church in America.
Today, the Reformed Church in America includes 300,000 people of many cultures across the North American continent, remembering their heritage, growing together, reforming always to do the work of the global Christian church.
RCA Mission and Vision
The Reformed Church in America is a fellowship of congregations called by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be the very presence of Jesus Christ in the world.
Our shared task is to equip congregations for ministry–a thousand churches in a million ways doing one thing–following Christ in mission, in a lost and broken world so loved by God.
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