By Marlee Middlebrooks, The Red & Black.
Due to the evolving theological direction of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the majority of the congregation at the Central Presbyterian Church on Alps Road in Athens feels it is time to disaffiliate from PCUSA. It cannot secede, however, without permission from the denomination.
This process has caused frustration among congregation members of Central Presbyterian Church, including members of the University of Georgia community.
Jeffrey Dorfman, a member of CPC and UGA professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, said members feel upset about several issues — chief among them the way PCUSA has responded to his church’s desire to disaffiliate.
“PCUSA treated us so terribly that now people want to leave just because they are mad,” Dorfman said.
Evan Alley, a CPC intern and a junior UGA art major from Johns Creek, said discontentment was felt throughout the congregation.
“From my perspective as a youth intern and from the kids’ perspective, it really hurt them, and they were just confused as to what was going on,” Alley said. “I could tell that they felt the same frustrations that their parents probably did.”
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A Presbytery of the Peaks commissioner told us it was about punishing us for wanting to leave,
If Presbytery of the Peaks is anything like Mission Presbytery their actions will come back to bite them. My church’s vote to dissaffiliate from the PCUSA was helped greatly by the vindictive, mean-spirited and ill-advised actions of Mission Presbytery.
Not sure what church you are from, but I’m not aware of Mission Presbytery being bitten by anything. They treated the Hispanic churches in the Valley horribly, and nothing happened. First Pres San Antonio gifted Mission Presbytery with $1.4 million the presbytery can now use to fight other churches who are seeking to leave. Seems Mission Presbytery is making out like a bandit.