By Elaine Ayala, The San Antonio Express-News. San Antonio’s oldest Protestant congregation will head to court Wednesday to plead that its property, including two valuable pieces of downtown real estate, be declared theirs and theirs alone — specifically not that of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) nor that of the Mission Presbytery, the denomination’s regional council….
By Steve Salyards, The GA Junkie. As I have often commented in this space, I really don’t want to go chasing church property cases in the civil courts as they can vary so widely by jurisdiction. I am going to take this opportunity to update one situation I have previously covered in detail and use…
By Steve Salyards, The GA Junkie My most recent post was on “A Matter of Perspective.” Well, as I read the news from Texas yesterday there were certainly multiple perspectives, some might go as far as to call it spin, in the different accounts of a recent property settlement. The news was that Highland Park Presbyterian…
Windwood Presbyterian Church, a 1000+ member congregation just northeast of Houston, Texas has voted to disaffiliate from the Presbyterian Church (USA) and join the ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. Windwood has been engaged in prolonged litigation with the Presbytery of New Covenant over church property issues. That dispute is not resolved by the…
HOUSTON (AP) — An influential, wealthy Houston church is considering a split from the nation’s largest Presbyterian body as it is embroiled in a national debate between those who want to take a more conservative view of the Bible and those who support measures to make room for gay marriage, a newspaper reported Sunday. The First Presbyterian Church, the…
On Sunday (10/27/13), Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas overwhelmingly voted to “terminate its voluntary affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA),” and join ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. The vote to leave the PCUSA was 1,337 (89 percent) in favor; 170 (11 percent) against. The vote for joining ECO was 1,335 in…
The 2,631-member Grace Presbyterian Church in Houston, Texas voted to enter into the discernment process with its presbytery this past Sunday (10/20/13). During the congregational meeting, 616 ballots were cast, and 552 voted in favor of entering into the discernment process with New Covenant Presbytery; 64 voted against entering the process. Sam Knight, interim pastor,…
Living with litigation has become a way of life for us as members of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. For the past 4 ½ years, we have been under the cloud of a lawsuit brought against us by The Episcopal Church and its local supporters, seeking to deprive us of our buildings and assets….
By Bobby Ross Jr. Donald Adair, a Church of Christ elder and owner of the West, Texas, fertilizer facility that caught fire and exploded Wednesday night, says his heart is “broken with grief for the tragic losses to so many families in our community.” “My family and I can’t express enough our deep appreciation for…
People in the town of West, Texas, are trying to recover from a massive blast at a fertilizer plant Wednesday that resulted in fatalities, scores of injuries and heavy damage to homes and buildings in the surrounding area, and churches are doing their part to help. Firefighters responded around 6:30 p.m. April 17 to battle…