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In their 2023 season opener at the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 15, 2023, the Memphis Showboats of the rebooted United States Football League succumbed to the Philadelphia Stars 27 to 23. Former Bethel University Wildcat cornerback Karrheem Darrington, #25, was a part of that history as a defensive back on […]

Bobby Doyle Coppenger, 86, of Maryville, Tennessee, died April 19, 2023, after a long illness. He was a member and elder at Maryville First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee).

Arkansas Presbytery met March 10-11, 2023, with Barren Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Mount Pleasant, Arkansas. Rev. Alan Meinzer was pastor host. Rev. Nicholas Chambers was elected moderator and Rev. Tom Merchant vice moderator.  The offering was dedicated to the Leo Smith Scholarship Fund. Reinstated Rev. John Eubanks from Ewing-Burrow Presbytery as a ministerial member. Transferred […]

“Finding Faith in The Ordinary” The Spring 2023 Huddle Event of the Nashville Presbytery Come and engage with Rev. T.J. Malinoski, Saturday morning May 6, 2023, 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m., West Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Free breakfast burritos and bear hugs! In the past 20 years, more people are entering the Christian faith through […]

David Alan Downs, 68, of White, Georgia, died April 17, 2023. David was a talented musician who played guitar and piano. He enjoyed playing during services at his church, Bartow Cumberland Presbyterian (Tennessee -Georgia Presbytery) where he and wife Toni were members.

Dona Keith Milam, 91, of the Short Creek Community in Grayson County, Kentucky, near Leitchfield, died April 20, 2023. Dona was born December 21,1931, in Louisville, Kentucky; the only child born to Joseph and Dora Keith. She married to the Reverend Robert Milam, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, on March 16,1948. For the 61 years of […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read 1 Peter 1:23-25 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 23 You have been born anew, not of perishable but of […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Genesis 18:1-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition A Son Promised to Abraham and Sarah 18 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read 1 Peter 1:13-16 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition A Call to Holy Living 13 Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will […]

Walter Lewis Inman, Sr., 92, died April 12, 2023, after a lengthy illness. He was an elder at Brush Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery).