February 25 Today in OPC History

On Saturday, February 25, 1956, the Presbytery of New Jersey examined Westminster Seminary student Harvie Conn in theology pursuant to his being licensed to preach the gospel in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Conn and his roommate at Westminster, Paul MacDonald, had helped to organize a new OP chapel in Stratford, New Jersey. It was at Stratford that Harvie met Dorothy Diedrich who was planning on going to Eritrea to serve as a missionary. They were married on October 20, 1956, and the next year Harvie was ordained to serve as a home missionary laboring at Stratford. In 1960 Harvie and Dorothy went to Korea where they served as OPC missionaries until 1972 when Harvie accepted a teaching position at Westminster Seminary.

Picture: Harvie and Dorothy Conn