960 El Terino Ave.
Modesto, California
95350

Rev. Paul H. Treick

Our Invitation To You...

We urge you to join us as we worship and praise our God
each Lord's Day.  A warm welcome awaits you.  We want
you to know that we are people just like you-- married,
single, families, young and old.  We are faced with the
same problems, sins, loneliness, failures, sorrows, and
joys that all people are confronted with in this world.  We
too are challenged by all the temptations in this society.

Sometimes we are obedient, and sometimes we disobey.
Even our obedience is imperfect.  We are sinners saved by
grace. One difference dominates our lives- by the grace of
God, we are redeemed and forgiven. As Christian's, we
belong to Christ who bought us.  We have only one purpose
in coming to you-to tell you of the salvation that God has
given in Jesus Christ, so you too many have the peace and
joy that God has given to us.  We are Christians today
because someone, at sometime, told us the good news . For
that same purpose we come to you.

Our Heritage

The Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS) traces its
history through the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth
century. At that time, the Lord raised up such men as John
Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli and John Knox to reform the church according
to the Word of God.

The first congregations of the RCUS, consisting mostly of German
immigrants, were formed in 1725 by John Philip Boehm, and were
located just north of Philadelphia. From then until the early part
of the twentieth century, the old German Reformed Church grew to be
one of the largest denominations in the country. We operated several
colleges, seminaries, orphanages and church papers. Sadly, however,
most of our congregations participated in the 1934 merger with the Evangelical Synod of North America; the resulting megachurch merged
later with the Christian Congregational Churches to form the United
Church of Christ. The few congregations that wanted to retain
Reformed distinctives and refused to believe that bigger is better
incorporated in 1940 as the continuing RCUS.
 

Our Doctrine

We believe the Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the
Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, inerrant and
infallible Word of the living God. As such it is our final
standard for all our teaching.

By mutual consent we have also adopted as subordinate
standards the following great creeds of the Reformation:
the Heidelberg Catechism , the Belgic Confession of Faith
and the The Canons of Dort  . We believe these to be the
most accurate expressions of Biblical Christianity that the
church has ever produced. Each of our ministers is required
to subscribe to their teachings without reservation.

Our Distinctive

Every denomination has its own unique characteristics that
distinguish it from others. Here are a few of ours:

Six day creation
The sanctity of human life
Male headship
The catechization of covenant youth
Not using pictures of Christ

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