Unitized Funds

Paul Romjue Focus on Faith Fund Established in 2000

The Paul Romjue Fund in the IPC Foundation provides funding support for IPC’s annual Focus on Faith lectures. Focus on Faith brings renowned speakers on matters of Theology, Biblical Studies, and the many ways our faith informs our public and private daily living.

Our church places a high value on the deepening of faith and our understanding of it through educational opportunities for adults, youth, and children. Focus on Faith, largely geared toward adults in our congregation and community, has been a source of great learning and inspiration over the years.

In 2022, IPC invited The Rev. Dr. Charles Wiley to be our Focus on Faith speaker. Dr. Wiley serves currently as Director of Major Gifts at Columbia Theological Seminary (PCUSA) in Decatur, Georgia, as well as serving as Adjunct Faculty in the area of History and Doctrine. Previously, he served as Coordinator for the Office of Theology and Worship for the General Assembly, in our PCUSA offices in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include New Worshiping Communities: A

Theological Exploration, written with co-author Vera White; and as one of the editors of Theology in the Service of the Church.

In his Focus on Faith lectures at IPC, Dr. Wiley discussed the topic of Immigration and the way in which immigrant communities have affected churches and faith traditions in the United States. He also discussed how immigration has affected new worshiping communities across our country, as people of many different cultures and worshiping traditions come together as part of the Body of Christ.

We are grateful to the Paul Romjue Fund for making Focus on Faith possible, so that this long and rich tradition of inviting expert speakers from many different places, backgrounds and perspectives can continue to impact the faith of IPC members and friends from the community each year.