The Synod Executive of ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians has written to the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s middle governing council leadership to “both clear up some misconceptions that were stated in [a recent] letter as well as encourage each of us to adopt a more gracious tone and posture than was conveyed.” “An unkind…
The question of the graciousness of so-called “gracious dismissal policies” is now being tested nationwide. In Los Ranchos Presbytery five churches were dismissed in May after satisfying every requirement of the presbytery’s process. Remedial charges were then filed with the synod in all five cases alleging that the presbytery did not sufficiently defend the interests…
Despite its efforts to provide a satisfactory counter offer, a Florida congregation has been dismissed from the Presbyterian Church (USA) without its property. Friendship Presbyterian Church, located in Hialeah, Fla., was dismissed to ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians during the June 3 meeting of the Presbytery of Tropical Florida (PTF), which rejected an…
A remedial complaint brought against the Presbytery of Tropical Florida (PTF) by five members of the former session of First Presbyterian Church of Miami was dismissed by the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of South Atlantic (SAPJC). The complaint revolved around the assumption of original jurisdiction by an Administrative Commission (AC) appointed by the…
Community Presbyterian Church of Clewiston is now part of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) despite a delay in the dismissal process that came about as a result of changes in the Presbytery of Tropical Florida’s gracious separation agreement. CPC-Clewiston – located in northeast Hendry County, Florida east of Fort Myers – was dismissed from Presbytery…