The Congregational Reformed Church is a small

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church based in east

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. The church is led by Rev. Dr William J. Malcolmson, an activist in the

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and

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who is also president of the Evangelical Protestant Society (EPS). website Raymond Pulman, a former assistant minister of the church, was also involved with the EPS from 1997, serving for a time as its general secretary; he was a former secretary of ILOL6 a member lodge of the Independent Grand Orange Lodge but in 2001 abandoned Orangeism on theological grounds.Ray Pulman
autobiographical essay, undated Pulman was also a member of the Association of Fundamentalists Evangelising Catholics. The

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followed by the church is the Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order, drawn up in 1658. It uses the

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of the

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and worshippers sing psalms, hymns and paraphrases without musical accompaniment. The church is associated with the Sovereign Grace Mission and the Bible Institute.

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