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In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Red River Presbytery has cancelled their spring 2020 meeting which had already been postponed. Full text of the announcement is below. With our President extending the social distancing period to April 30, the Executive Council of Red River Presbytery voted to cancel the Spring 2020 meeting of Red […]

Art (short for Artist) King, a music major at Odessa College is now attending University of Texas, Permian Basin, studying visual art with an emphasis in graphic design and a minor in marketing, runs media and provides special music for St. Andrew Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Odessa, Texas (Presbytery Del Cristo). He also works as […]

Timothy Suenram, a former Cumberland Presbyterian Minister, died on Friday, March 27, 2020. He had been placed in an induced coma in the hopes his body would heal. Tim and his first wife, Elizabeth, were members of Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He came under care of Western Presbytery (formerly Lubbock Presbytery) […]

Eleanor “Ellie” Elizabeth Scrudder, 81, a former member of the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died March 26, 2020. She had been in hospice care at home for a short time. She was born Eleanor Hillman in Sedalia, Missouri, on December 30, 1938, to Howard R. and Ruth Naomi Keele Hillman. Ellie grew […]

The Reverend Mace Travis Jett, Jr., 89, (West Tennessee Presbytery) died March 25, 2020, at his home in Martin, Tennessee. He was born to Mace Travis Jett, Sr., and Lauretta Downs Jett on January 15, 1931, in Detroit, Michigan. Mace became a Christian in 1939 and joined the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan, […]

The Reverend Shelia O’Mara’s “Moderator’s Musings” appears monthly in the print edition of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine. Sadly, no installment appeared in the March 2020 issue. Probably, this was entirely the fault of the magazine not the moderator. We present her column here with our apologies. My husband and I worship at the Dyersburg, Tennessee, […]

The Board of Stewardship Foundation and Benefits seeks a person who has a desire to serve the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He or she would be a person who oversees the benefit programs and supports the other work of the Board of Stewardship, Foundation and Benefits. The person would need to be a self-starter and a […]

Frances Anne Brundage Barringer, 95, a longtime member and the eldest member of the Coker, Alabama, Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery), died March 16, 2020. She was the surviving spouse of S. Findley Barringer, the long serving stated clerk of New Hope Presbytery. Frances was born October 6, 1924 in Woodward, Alabama, to Willie and […]

A Prayer for Those Affected and Infected with CoViD-19 Kristi Lounsbury Director of Congregational Ministries God of mercy, we cry out to you as the Great Healer. As we begin the long days and ongoing nights of isolation, we know you say to us, “For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it […]

We just received fairly late notice that the meeting of Choctaw Presbytery scheduled for today (March 21, 2020) has been cancelled due to concerns over the Coronavirus. We do not know if presbytery plans to reschedule.