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MCKENZIE, Tenn. March 8, 2021 – The Bethel University Undergraduate Admissions Office has announced the winners of the prestigious Hendrix Scholarship. Andrew Welch from Clarksville, a student at Rossview High School, is the winner of the 2021 Hendrix Scholarship Competition. He will receive full tuition, room and board at Bethel University valued at over $100,000. […]

Dear Friends In Mission,  We are planning for a trip to Oklahoma to help the Choctaw Presbytery refurbish their Presbyterial campgrounds (Camp Israel Folsom), near Broken Bow, OK. This campground can provide both camping for youth, meetings for the Presbytery and, with repairs and updating, the possibility for renting it to supplement the small budget […]

MSNBC’s Richard Lui shares lessons learned as caregiver for his father, the Rev. Steven Lui, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. The longtime journalist’s caregiving life off camera inspired his new book that’s part memoir and part self-help book. Read more: Click Here!

The Reverend Wallace Wade Acton, 90, (Grace Presbytery) of Glencoe, Alabama, died March 24, 2021. Wade was born August 21, 1930 in Sterrett, Alabama, near Birmingham, to the Reverend Armon Clarence Acton and Thelma May White Acton. After Thelma’s death, Armon married Ruth Harper when Wade was sixteen. Wade had seven siblings. He attended Cahaba […]

Reflect Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman must be counted as one of the loveliest recorded in the gospels. Despite centuries of animosity between Jews and Samaritans, Jesus reaches out to the woman with a request: “Give me a drink.” From this most basic of all requests springs a conversation that reveals the torment of […]

Carthel Melford “Charlie” Chandler, 94, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, died March 12, 2021. He was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dyersburg (West Tennessee Presbytery) where he served as an elder and a member of the chancel choir. He and Mrs. Chandler taught Sunday School and served as table leaders in Youth Club. Charlie […]

Services for Eleanor “Ellie” Scrudder will be March 26th at 2:00pm in Tahlequah, OK. Ellie died on March 26, 2020 just as the pandemic was starting to shut things down and services were delayed. Now a year later, the family hoped to be able to have the service open to all, but since it is […]

Musicians of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra will present Elgar String Serenade as part of the First Horizon Foundation Instrumental Series at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery). The performances will be Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 9, at 7 p.m. at 1505 N Moore Road, Chattanooga. Experience one of […]

Hazel Adean Byars, 100, of Fulton, Kentucky, died Friday, March 12, 2021. She attended Good Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dukedom (West Tennessee Presbytery).

Mary Kathryn Kirkpatrick is this week’s guest on Cumberland Road Reverend Mary Kathryn Kirkpatrick, minister at the Jefferson Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Jefferson, Texas, shares her calling to ministry and discerning God’s voice throughout her life and envisioning the Church’s worship to be a space where people can be themselves. https://cumberlandroad.transistor.fm/ Reverend Dr. Cory Williams, […]