CP News

Overnight December 10-11, 2021, many tornadoes ripped primarily through Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee. That we know of so far at least one Cumberland Presbyterian has died in the storm with other deaths unconfirmed and Brier Creek CP Church reportedly lost their manse. Particularly hard hit communities with concentrations of Cumberland Presbyterians include Mayfield and Bowling […]

Cindy Martin, manager of Cumberland Presbyterian Resources, was surprised recently by a sudden flurry of orders for the reprint edition of the 1895 Cumberland Cookbook. Orders for the volume, which typically sells slowly, came in rapidly through the CP Resources online store with no discernible pattern. Martin contacted one of the buyers and learned the […]

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A new poll reveals most Americans are in favor of offering religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccines, yet express concern that too many people are seeking such exemptions. In the same survey, more than half of those who refuse to get vaccinated say getting the shot goes against their personal faith. The […]

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) Executive Committee, meeting virtually 30 November through 1 December 2021, declared a “Decade for Climate Justice” and set plans for the next General Council to be held in 2025. The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest association of Calvinist churches in the world. It has […]

Walk To Bethlehem, December 18-19, 2021, 6-8 pm Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Marshall, Texas. This gift to the community and to all Wonderland of Lights visitors is a progressive tour by lantern light. This is a come-and-go, live nativity in five scenes with all the readings coming straight from the Bible. There are actors, live […]

First Presbyterian Church in Dunbar, Nebraska, celebrated its 150th anniversary on November 14, 2021. As part of the celebration, the congregation recalled their 35 year history as a church in Nebraska Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. A group of men and women living in the Harmony neighborhood southeast of Dunbar in 1870, realized a […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A religious group based in Ohio announced Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted. The statement from Christian Aid Ministries said the people were released on Sunday in Haiti and are “safe and seem to be in good spirits.” The group […]

Jim Scruggs, 88, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, died December 3, 2021. He was born April 15, 1933, to Elmer H. and Nora L. Scruggs. A member of the “Telephone Pioneers,” Jim was retired from South Central Bell. He was an elder at Flat Lick Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) and had served in the U.S. Army.

December 4, 2021, Missions Ministry Team staff and representatives from the Grace Presbytery Board of Missions participated in the first meeting of the Latino Council of Cumberland Presbyterian Churches in Florida at Iglesia Presbiteriana Cumberland El Camino in Miami. This is the first Latino council of Cumberland Presbyterian Churches in the USA.  

William Lane Smith Jr., 71, an elder at Mount Cumberland Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America in Athens, Alabama, died November 27, 2021. William was also a member of the choir.