[Editor’s Update: Interim pastor, Dr. Ron Scates, sent a letter to the congregation today, 11/3/15.] Sunday, (11/1/15) First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio voted by 87 percent to disaffiliate from the Presbyterian Church (USA). According to information on the church web site, 1,072, of the church’s 2,202 members — 48.6 percent of the membership —…
Mission Presbytery has sent individual letters to First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio’s three pastors and the clerk of session informing them that not only is Sunday’s congregational meeting “not consistent” with the requirements and provisions of the denomination’s constitution, it could result in “the possibility of ecclesiastical charges and of being found to have…
The campaigning has begun at First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, Texas in preparation for the upcoming vote on whether the congregation should immediately leave the Presbyterian Church (USA). FPC-San Antonio will vote Sunday afternoon, November 1, on whether to disaffiliate from the PCUSA and join ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. The vote…
A church in Illinois voted overwhelmingly Sunday to disaffiliate with the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the session of a Texas church has voted to recommend that its congregation follow the same route out of the denomination. Church votes to disaffiliate During Sunday’s (10/18/15) congregational meeting, members of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Aurora, Ill., voted 123-17…