HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Friday morning worship at the 33rd General Assembly meeting of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church is the time when the outgoing moderator offers a word to the church and communion is celebrated. The message was thus offered by Ken Roberts, moderator of the 32nd GA. The text for the day was drawn…
The Rev. Dr. William E. (Bill) Dudley has been elected as the moderator of the 33rd General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). Following his election, Dudley said, “I have been speechless about what I might say to you at the assembly. There is only one great honor for me, and that is the…
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Words have meaning, but they do not necessarily mean to others what they mean to you. In his introduction to the topic of the pre-assembly equipping workshop at the 33rd General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), Mark Mittelberg illustrated that even across two English-speaking cultures like Great Britain and…
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — The Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)’s 33rd General Assembly is being held this week in Colorado. The theme “In Christ Alone” was emphasized throughout the day on June 19 with a pre-assembly equipping workshop on evangelism and an evening concert of praise. The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey J. Jeremiah, stated clerk of the…
A Nebraska church has split into two congregations, but they continue to worship in the same meeting space by agreeing to a shared use covenant. First Presbyterian Church of Stapleton went through a schism that divided the church into a pair of congregations. One was a Presbyterian Church (USA) remnant; the other formed Cornerstone Church…
Three months after a fellow Salem Presbytery church left the Presbyterian Church (USA), another followed suit. Westminster Presbyterian Church in Burlington, N.C., was dismissed from the national denomination during a May 4 meeting of Salem Presbytery to align itself with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). Westminster follows Mebane Presbyterian Church, another Alamance County congregation, into…
By Steve Salyards Beginning tomorrow morning (June 18) the Evangelical Presbyterian Church begins ramping up to the start of the meeting of its 33rd General Assembly. There are a variety of workshops tomorrow, Tuesday 18 June, and then the keynote workshop for everyone on Wednesday 19 June. It is not until Thursday morning 20 June…
by Dennis H. Piermont on The Presbyterian Outlook In the fall of 2011, four congregations in the Presbytery of the Miami Valley each decided to hold congregational meetings on Reformation Sunday to seek “disaffiliation with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).” Each of these congregation occupied significant places in the life of the presbytery; each of their…
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) will meet June 18-22 in Denver, CO at Cherry Hills Community Church for its 33rd General Assembly. General Assemblies are the annual gatherings of the EPC, where church representatives vote on committee recommendations and reports, vote on presbytery overtures, and conduct other business of the denomination. There are also workshops…
By Kirsten Blake, Kanabec County Times The First Presbyterian Church of Mora recently changed from belonging to a denomination they felt strayed from scripture to a denomination they felt more accurately reflected the congregation’s beliefs — a switch that cost the 88-member church $150,000. The switch from their previous denomination, the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA),…