Posted by the Kings Mountain (N.C.) Herald. The elders and Rev. Greg Martin announced this week in a news release that First Presbyterian Church [Kings Mountain, N.C.] has joined ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians, a rapidly growing denomination that exists to serve the local church and “reclaim a sense of covenanted biblical community.” The…
By Sarah M. Wojcik, The Morning Call. (Pennsylvania) The Lehigh Presbytery has determined that there is not sufficient support within the congregation of the largest Presbyterian church in the Lehigh Valley to justify its break from the most visible national branch of the denomination. But that doesn’t necessarily spell an end to the efforts by members…
Posted on PRWeb. Planting churches is part of a rich St. Andrew Presbyterian Church’s history and part of their 2020 Vision to create new ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians churches from an existing church. The thoughtful, engaged, evangelical mission of ECO is: “To build flourishing churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ.” “God…
On Monday, (5-23-16), the session of Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church (MDPC) in Houston, Texas voted 47-8 (85% to 15%) to disaffiliate from the Presbyterian Church (USA). The session will now ask the Presbytery of New Covenant to dismiss the church to ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians at its July presbytery meeting. Just last…
On April 1, Flat Branch Covenant Presbyterian Church in Bunnlevel, N.C., was formally dismissed from the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is now a part of ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. “We are excited about our move to a branch of the Presbyterian family that boldly embraces its historic biblical and theological foundation, and…
A lawsuit between a local church and the Presbyterian Church (USA) has been dismissed after the PCUSA “disclaimed any and all interest” in the church’s property. As a result, First & Calvary Presbyterian Church (FnC) in Springfield, Mo., has obtained a clear title to its property without having to pay John Calvin Presbytery (JPC) any…
Two churches – on opposite sides of the country – have been dismissed for more than a million dollars each from the Presbyterian Church (USA) by their respective presbyteries to join ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. The 580-member Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church in California was required to pay $2.7 million – approximately $4,700…
By Charlie Brennan, Daily Camera. The First Presbyterian Church of Boulder has raised more than 85 percent of the $2.29 million it is required to pay to the Presbyterian Church (USA) to secure its downtown property and complete its switch to a new denomination. The initial payment of $750,000 was made on schedule last week,…
At a special congregational meeting held yesterday (1/31/16), First Presbyterian Church-San Antonio, Texas approved a financial settlement of $1,525,000 with Mission Presbytery, joining 14 other churches across the nation that have paid in excess of $1 million to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) with their property. The church had already left the PCUSA — voting…
Editor’s note: The duly-elected session of Central Presbyterian Church called a congregational meeting in January for the purpose of voting on the following question “Shall Central Presbyterian Church ask Northeast Georgia Presbytery to dismiss it, with its property, to the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians, according to conditions acceptable to the Session and Church Treasurer?” Subsequently, the…