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The Missions Ministry Team continues to accept applications for the position of Director of Global Missions. Deadline for application has been extended to noon (Central Daylight Time) Saturday, June 10, 2023. Language Requirements for the position have been revised. If you are interested in learning more or applying, please utilize the following links and note […]

The music video for singer Nicole Witt’s country music track “Bourbon” was partly filmed in the chapel at the Cumberland Presbyterian Birthplace Shrine at Montgomery Bell State Park near Burns, Tennessee. The artist neither sought permission to use the chapel nor credited the denomination in the video. It is not known if Ms Witt is […]

Memphis Theological Seminary announced April 26, 2023, their commencement speaker will be Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas, Sr., the presiding bishop of the First Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, which includes Arkansas and Tennessee. Prior to his election as bishop, he served as the seventh president/dean of The Phillips School of Theology (“The […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Exodus 24:1-11 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition The Blood of the Covenant 24 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 134 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Psalm 134 Praise in the Night A Song of Ascents. 1 Come, bless the Lord, all you servants […]

Betty Jo Lansden, 91, of Madisonville, Kentucky, died April 20, 2023. Betty was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Madisonville (Covenant Presbytery).

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 […]