A former Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania is now home to a Hindu temple. The remaining members of Petersburg Presbyterian Church in Scranton merged with Hickory Street United Presbyterian Church in 1994. That merger left the Petersburg building unoccupied. Instead of a campaign of robust evangelism to reach the new immigrants, many from India who were…
The long wait to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) is over for a northeast Pennsylvania congregation. Silver Lake Presbyterian Church (SLPC) officially became a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) following a welcoming and ordination ceremony on May 3. The 47-member congregation, established in 1816 and located in Susquehanna County (Brackney, Pa.) near the…
A congregation serving northeast Pennsylvania for more than two centuries finds itself part of a new denomination after opting to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA). First Presbyterian Church of Hallstead, located in Susquehanna County near the New York border just south of Binghamton, was dismissed from the PCUSA during the Jan. 25 meeting of Lackawanna…