By Suzanne Elliott, The Observer-Reporter (Pa.) It will be up to a Washington County judge to decide who is going to pay in the ongoing financial dispute between Peters Creek Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Washington Presbytery of Pennsylvania. The church formed in 2008, when the majority of the congregation of Peters Creek United Presbyterian…
By EPNews. The Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico (La Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de México or INPM) formally ratified an historic partnership on September 8 at the INPM General Assembly in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Attending the meeting from the EPC were Jeff Jeremiah, EPC Stated Clerk; Mike Moses, National Leadership Team chairman;…
Three Presbyterian denominations – ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church in America – are growing in both the number of churches and members, while the Presbyterian Church (USA) continues to decline in both categories. ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians The fastest growing Presbyterian denomination…
By Carolyn Poteet*. The 36th General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) formalized a growing partnership with the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico (La Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de México or INPM) by approving a formal fraternal agreement last Friday (6/24/16). The agreement will lay the groundwork for church planting in both the United States and…
By Jeff Jeremiah, stated clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. My wife, Cindy, and I spent two days in Puerto Rico [in Feb., 2016] visiting two of the newest EPC congregations. On Sunday, the leaders and congregation of Westminster-Bayamon warmly welcomed us. For those who attended General Assembly last June in Orlando, you will recall this…
By EPNews. A March meeting between the leaders of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico (INP) in Mexico City resulted in the two denominations proceeding toward a fraternal agreement for approval at each body’s General Assembly this summer. The EPC was represented by Moderator Mike Moses, Stated Clerk Jeff Jeremiah,…
By Stacey Henson, News-Press.com (Florida). Church elder and artist Deborah Fransway lays on her belly in an unfinished sanctuary, black Sharpie in hand, writing the Gospel of John on the concrete floor. As she works, a reader gives her snippets from each passage of the NIV Bible used by the New Hope Presbyterian Church. “When he had finished…
I am writing a narrative of Hope Presbyterian Church’s transition from the Presbyterian Church (USA) to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. I felt I should place it within the history of the PCUSA and the Sacramento Presbytery. This is my beginning. By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. Local history lies in the context of wider…
Even though the Evangelical Presbyterian Church has received hundreds of congregations through dismissal from Presbyterian Church (USA) presbyteries since 2007, Shenandoah Presbytery has voted not to include the conservative denomination in its list of “denominations to which churches of the presbytery may be considered for dismissal.” According to presbytery documents, Shenandoah Presbytery formed an ad…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. Free to be free: The document below was just sent out to both members of Journey Church and the new Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Folsom, Hope Presbyterian Church. I have not yet received it but some members of Hope’s session have received the letter. The letter was written by…