There’s plenty of red, white and blue flying outside Westminster Presbyterian Church in Middletown, N.J., and it’s not part of the Presbyterian Church (USA) banner. Instead it’s flags – 6,744 of them to be exact – that adorn the lawn in front of the church. The patriotic display is part of the church’s Field of…
A Minnesota congregation will continue to worship and provide ministry in the Duluth area, just not in its own facility – at least not for a while. Westminster Presbyterian Church in Duluth, located northeast of Minneapolis/St. Paul along Lake Superior in eastern Minnesota near the Wisconsin border, is being demolished after floodwaters from last summer…
By Emily Ham Price Sitting at 115 N. 25th Ave. for more than 60 years, Westminster Presbyterian Church has been full of laughter, singing, praising and rejoicing. But four months after an EF4 tornado tore through Hattiesburg, leaving the church battered and torn, it now is filled with the sounds of hammers, saws, cranes and…
A Mississippi congregation has been granted full membership into the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). Westminster Presbyterian Church, located in Gulfport, Miss., west of Biloxi along the Gulf of Mexico, became the 17th congregation in the state to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) for the EPC. Information provided to The Layman in an email from Westminster’s…