Our Beliefs

“In view of the action of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., resisting the movement for reform of the Board of Foreign Missions, a new Board will be organized by Bible-believing Christians to promote truly Biblical and Presbyterian work.”

These words, pronounced at the close of the 1933 General Assembly meeting in Columbus, Ohio, heralded the foundation of The Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Presbyterians who could no longer conscientiously support the official Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions because of its modernism were the founders of this Board. There had developed within the Church a very widespread lack of faith in the doctrinal integrity of some of the members of the existing Board, as evidenced by the well-known Pearl Buck case, and the presence on the field of others who had not hesitated to declare their unbelief in the full authority of Holy Scriptures. The situation had developed to such an extent that it had to be remedied if Presbyterian missions were to continue commending the financial support of evangelical Presbyterians as well as other Christians, if it also be true to the Word of God, and obey the commands of Christ. Many had already withdrawn their contributions from the official Board before The Independent Board was ever conceived. This new Board was constituted to provide an agency to which sincere Bible-believing Christians could give their missionary contributions, knowing that those contributions would be used to preach the true Gospel.

- William R. LeRoy D.D