(By Ely Portillo, The Charlotte Observer, NC). Covenant Presbyterian Church has decided to invest $2 million in a new affordable housing development in west Charlotte, the church said Tuesday. The Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing Partnership is developing 185 apartments at the southwest corner of Freedom Drive and Camp Green Street. About 30 percent of the units will rent…
A Pennsylvania congregation and its former governing body reached a settlement that allowed the church to be dismissed to another denomination without going to court for a civil trial. Attorneys for Covenant Presbyterian Church (CPC) in Ligonier, Pa., and Redstone Presbytery negotiated an agreement in January that led to a March recommendation of the congregation’s…
By Andrew Branch After spending Tuesday night (Jan. 28) stranded at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Ala., one mom told pastor Bill Boyd her child summed up the ordeal with much more enthusiasm than most adults felt about the situation: “Mommy, that was so fun. When are we going to do that again?” Most people…
Not only did the congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Prosser, Wash., leave the Presbyterian Church (USA), but the name of the church also was changed. FPC-Prosser, organized in 1905, was dismissed from Central Washington Presbytery and the PCUSA to join ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians on Aug. 17, 2013, and changed its…
A Tallahassee, Fla., congregation has joined the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) but still has ties to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Covenant Presbyterian Church, started in 1963, was dismissed from the PCUSA during a Presbytery of Florida meeting in January, but it entered a lease agreement with the presbytery to continue meeting in its facilities, located…