A congregation in Newton, Mass., has disaffiliated from the Presbyterian Church (USA) to join the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Newton Presbyterian Church members voted 107-26 (80.4 percent) on Sunday to withdraw from the PCUSA effective immediately and to begin the process to be accepted into the Evangelical Covenant Church. The church’s disaffiliation has not gone unchallenged…
The threat of being forced from the home he and his family have lived in for nearly four years is not one that worries the Rev. Brian Jacobson. He knows they will be provided for no matter what happens. “God has wired me in a way that I am simply not prone to anxiety or…
After two years of seeking a gracious and amicable resolution, and more than a year after an Administrative Commission (AC) agreed to everything but the financial terms of dismissal, a Wisconsin congregation has disaffiliated and filed a civil suit against its regional governing body while its pastor has renounced jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church (USA)….
A Missouri congregation that walked away from the Presbyterian Church (USA) four months ago is awaiting full membership with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). St. Luke JOY Presbyterian Church in northern Kansas City has been a transitional member of the EPC since Jan. 24 following its disaffiliation from the PCUSA in November 2013. The congregation…
A Missouri congregation has disaffiliated from the Presbyterian Church (USA), though it is unclear whether there could be legal repercussions from the move. Brookdale Presbyterian Church, a 320-member congregation founded in 1917 in St. Joseph, Mo., 50 miles north of Kansas City, took steps to disaffiliate from the PCUSA and Heartland Presbytery when members unanimously…
Formal discussion of leaving the Presbyterian Church (USA) had not taken place between the congregation of First Presbyterian Church of Amarillo and its session. Not until action by Palo Duro Presbytery warranted it, that is. Now, the church has voted to disaffiliate from the PCUSA and the presbytery. The FPC-Amarillo congregation voted by an overwhelming…
A rural church in northeast Ohio that disaffiliated from the Presbyterian Church (USA) has aligned itself with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). Pierpont Presbyterian Church, located in Ashtabula County about three miles from Pennsylvania some 70 miles east of Cleveland and south of Lake Erie, wrapped up its affiliation with the PCUSA and the Presbytery…
Members of Darlington Presbyterian Church call it a disaffiliation. New Harmony Presbytery refers to it as a dismissal. Whatever terminology used, Darlington’s departure from the Presbyterian Church (USA) and subsequent acceptance into the Evangelical Presbyterian Church has been fulfilling for the South Carolina congregation as its seeks to follow God’s will. The DPC congregation voted…
Two months have passed since Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) sent a letter to the stated clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), Jeffrey Jeremiah. The angst in the June 27 letter concerning the EPC’s reception of congregations that have disaffiliated from the PCUSA was palpable. The EPC stated clerk responded in a letter dated…