Bathgate congregation leaves PCUSA for the EPC
A North Dakota congregation became the first to leave the Presbytery of Northern Plains (PNP) and affiliate with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). Bathgate Presbyterian Church (BPC), located near Neche, N.D., in the northeast corner of the state near the Minnesota border, was dismissed during the April 4 meeting of PNP. The 98-member congregation is…