(By Bill Bumpas, OneNewsNow.com). The Evangelical Presbyterian Church says it has launched a petition drive in hopes of drawing attention to the imprisonment of Andrew Brunson. The American-born Presbyterian teaching elder has been ministering to the Turkish people for more than 20 years. But in October of last year, he was arrested and accused of…
(EPConnection news release). The Evangelical Presbyterian Church has launched a “Forgotten American in Turkey” petition in an effort to bring Andrew Brunson’s imprisonment in Turkey to the attention of the White House and President Trump. Brunson is an EPC teaching elder who was arrested in October 2016 and falsely charged with “membership in an armed…
The Rev. Dr. David Swanson is praying that God will give him the humility and godliness necessary to communicate the hope, unity and wholeness that comes through God alone, when he prays with those gathered at tomorrow’s National Prayer Service. Swanson, senior pastor and head of staff of First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Fla., will be…
(By Cale Johnson, The Reflector). For three years Woodland Presbyterian Church went without an official pastor. The long-time church in Woodland was formed in 1889 and has been through plenty of adversity over the years. These last three years will probably add to that list, but things are now back on track for the congregation….
(By Sohrab Ahmari, The Wall Street Journal). Andrew Brunson was elated when Turkey’s Interior Ministry summoned him on Oct. 7 in the coastal city of Izmir. The ministry, the American pastor imagined, was granting him and his wife, Norine, permanent-resident status after they’d spent more than two decades preaching the gospel in Turkey. Instead they were…
(By Julia A. Seymour, World Magazine). Since an attempted coup in July, Turkey’s authoritarian president has cracked down on dissent and now Christians are caught in the backlash, facing denied visas, deportations, and accusations of terrorism. The Turkish government has fired and arrested thousands of persons it claims are connected to the Fethullah Gulen Islamic…
(EPC Press Release). Rev. Andrew Brunson, a pastor from Black Mountain, N.C., has been charged in Turkey with membership in an armed terrorist organization and sent to prison. Brunson is a Teaching Elder in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and has lived in Turkey since 1993. During that time, he has served as pastor of two…
(By Rich Brown, The Carthage Press, Missouri). Of the 19 Evangelical Presbyterian Churches in Missouri, the one closest to Carthage has found a children’s outreach that churches of many other denominations might admire. New Creation Church of Joplin is in its third year of reaching out to children in elementary schools through a popular program…
(By Chuck Wiggins, The Presbyterian Outlook). “I often wonder what kind of shape the Presbyterian Church would be in today if the Orthodox Presbyterians, the PCA, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and ECO had not departed,” mused Joseph D. Small, former Presbyterian Church (USA.) Theology & Worship director. Those particularly thought provoking words came during the…
(The EPConnection). The EPC and National Presbyterian Church of Mexico (INPM) ratified a fraternal relationship on September 8 that focuses on church planting in both countries. In October, the EPC was notified that three INPM presbyteries are ready to initiate a relationship with EPC presbyteries: The Presbytery of de la Chontalpa, located in the state…