How can the deacons encourage mercy and service in the church and the world? This article discusses the importance of home visits by deacons.

What do the elders and consistory do when a church member is not willing to receive home visits or pastoral care? This article studies the reasons for this situation, and what the elders and consistory can do about it.

Should the deacon do home visits, and if so, what should such a visit look like? This article also looks at the unity of the pastoral home visit by elders and the visits by deacons.

Why is family visitation important? It is a means of giving spiritual care. This article explains the place of the youth in the church and the need for home visits to the young people. It also looks at issues to discuss with them during home visitation.

Why is family visitation important? This article explains the character of home visits, showing that these are the responsibility of both office-bearers and the congregation.

Why is family visitation important? Because home visits are a means of giving spiritual care. The article explains how this is so.

This article explains the obligations of office-bearers in house visitation. It shows the manner in which office-bearers are to carry out these obligations in home visits.

Why is family visitation important? This article gives the historical development of house visitation, with reference to the decision of the Synod of Dort on home visits.

Why is family visitation important? It is important because it is a means of giving spiritual care. This article explains issues that should be addressed during home visits, and the need for confidentiality after the visits.

This article provides a whole set of questions that elders could ask children on home visits.

How should office bearers report on their home visits? This article explains what kind of detail could be provided at a consistory meeting.

This article explains the importance of separate home visits for young adults, and of caring for singles in the congregation.

This article discusses how elders are to involve the children in home visits.

This article stresses the importance of office bearers being prepared for home visits, and just how they should be prepared.

This article explains the value in involving the minister in home visits, as time and opportunity permit.

This article stresses the importance of elders knowing their doctrine well, since in home visits they are to equip others with the Scriptures.

This article considers some of the benefits of home visits for both office bearers and the congregation.

How do elders enter the homes of the sheep? As friends? This article stresses that home visits are conducted by ambassadors of Christ.

Home visits seemingly did not begin until the time of the Reformation. This article explains how the Reformers moved away from the Roman Catholic practice of confession. It also highlights the connection made in history between home visits and the Lord’s Supper.

What is the biblical basis for home visits? This article discusses this question, and shows how pastoral care is to be personal care, in the homes.

This article, in summary form, explains the reason for home visits. They are an extension of the preaching, and prompt us to glorify the Lord.

How can elders make an effective home visits? For home visitation to be effective, there need to be a plans, and this article explains one such a plan.

Family visits are a task carried out by the elders under the authority of Christ in order to care for His church. This article looks at the ways elders should prepare for such home visits, and some important aspects of the family visit.

What is real freedom? This article explains that freedom is to serve each other through love. In fleshing this out, the author discusses the importance of listening in fellowship, the home visits of the elders, equality in the church, suffering injustice, and being content in the church.