Consultations

Alongside its annual meeting, NAPARC arranges consultations, where those who lead a particular ministry in each Member Church meet their counterparts from the other churches. They share what they are learning and look for ways to work together. Each consultation plans its own meetings and reports back to NAPARC.

World Missions & Diaconal Ministries

The world missions and diaconal agencies of the Member Churches meet to consult about the work entrusted to them, share what they are learning, and look for ways to cooperate in it.

Meets: Every year, usually in mid-September
Where: OPC administrative offices, Willow Grove, PA
Hosted by: Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Who takes part: Each Member Church’s world missions and diaconal agencies
Notes: World missions agencies have met this way since the 1980s, and the diaconal agencies joined them in 2019. Every few years they meet alongside the International Conference of Reformed Churches’ missions consultation, so that sister churches from overseas can take part. Each church’s contacts are on the Churches page.

Theological Training

Those who oversee theological training in the Member Churches meet to share insights on preparing men for the ministry and to look for ways to cooperate.

Hosted by: Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
Who takes part: Those who oversee theological training in each Member Church
Notes: Its first meeting was called alongside NAPARC’s 2025 annual meeting in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Biblical Counseling

The Member Churches meet to share insights on biblical counseling and how it is carried out in their congregations.

Hosted by: Heritage Reformed Congregations
Notes: Approved in 2025 as a one-time consultation, at the request of the Heritage Reformed Congregations.

Past Consultations

Home Missions

The home missions and church-planting agencies of the Member Churches met to consult about planting churches in North America and to look for ways to cooperate, including how to plant congregations without competing with one another.

Met: Most years, from 1977 to 2012
Where: Usually alongside the annual meeting
Who takes part: Each Member Church’s home missions agency
Notes: In 2025 a delegate offered to look into hosting it again.

Christian Education

The Christian education agencies of the Member Churches met to consult about the teaching ministry of the church and to look for ways to cooperate.

Met: Occasionally, in the 1980s
Who takes part: Each Member Church’s Christian education agency
Notes: At its last reported meeting, in 1988, it asked the Council for a conference on reaching the many ethnic groups of North America.