The Sufficiency of Christ and His Word is the theme of synod 2001. Several ministers will be first-time speakers at synod. Rev. Mark Turner, assistant at Armor BPC, Orchard Park, NY, and Dr. George Gatis, BP minister and a chaplain at Harvard University. In addition to four busy days enacting synod business, there will be a sacred concert on the Lord's Day afternoon, a free day to take in some of the beauty of the Northwest, and a closing synod banquet at the Tacoma Club with a message on Polemic Theology by Dr. John Battle, president of Western Reformed Seminary. Dr. Robert Anderson is the host pastor and has pastored the church since 1967.
Visitors are welcome at the synod meetings.
A Resurrection Day service was held in the church at Osaiji, located on the Uganda border, north of Lake Victoria. Many were on hand. Two days later they drove into Uganda, along with IPC Pastor Lamu. He was encouraging, saying the paperwork takes time. The Osaiji campus is an ideal site at which to center the work.