CP News

The First Presbyterian Church in Granbury, Texas, will celebrate 125 years of their building through the fall of 2021. Although the church was founded in 1879, the building which is still in use was built in 1896. The church points out in their online history they were founded as a Cumberland Presbyterian Church and went […]

The Reverend William Yeung of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister from Hong Kong, died on September 15, 2021, of COVID-19. William was leading Cumberland Presbyterian exploration initiatives in the United Kingdom. He pastored a group in Edinburgh and had just started a new group in Glasgow, Scotland. Timothy Yeung stated his father was very […]

Memphis Theological Seminary is excited to announce the start of a new series of online offerings. Following the success of Sunday Morning Seminary, a series of short virtual classes offered at no cost to the public on Zoom, we have developed Pulpit & Pew: Seminary for Everyone. Pulpit & Pew offers full-length recorded lectures on […]

Dear Friends in Mission, Most of you know of the floods in Waverly, TN a few weeks ago. As of now, they are still in the clean up stage of recovery, Within a couple of weeks they will have their rebuild & recovery committee up and making plans. The director of the work there is […]

The Reverend Dudley Wayne Condron, 96, died September 14, 2021. He was born October 6, 1925, in Wagoner, Oklahoma, to William Cecil Condron and Ada Nevada Davidson, a Cumberland Presbyterian family. His parents were grocers and his father a part-time farmer. The Reverend O.N. Baucom baptized Dudley October 30, 1925, at the First Cumberland Presbyterian […]

The Missions Ministry Team is now accepting applications for the position of Director of Ministry with Women. If you are interested in learning more or applying, please utilize the following links: Director of Ministry with Women – Official Job Announcement Director of Ministry with Women – Job Description Director of Ministry with Women – Application […]

The Cumberland Presbyterian Church Green Pasture Kindergarten in Tung Chung, Hong Kong, is one of nineteen Hong Kong schools and kindergartens subject to mandatory testing after outbreaks of upper respiratory tract infections with symptoms similar to those of COVID-19. The government has mandated testing for anyone who spent more than two hours at any of […]

John Edward Rinehart, 82, of Clarksville, Tennessee, died September 6, 2021. He was a member and elder at McAdoo Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) in Clarksville. He had been the production manager at B.F. Goodrich.

A Day in the Park, scheduled for October 19, 2021, at the Cumberland Presbyterian Birthplace Shrine, has been cancelled due to concern over COVID-19. The Historical Foundation and the Discipleship Ministry Team hope the event can be held in 2022.

Hurricane Ida Swept Through Cumberland East Coast Presbytery Please keep your brothers and sisters of Cumberland East Coast Presbytery in your prayers. Several Korean Cumberland Presbyterian churches of the Cumberland East Coast Presbytery were in the path of the rain and flooding Hurricane Ida produced in New Jersey and New York, September 1, 2021. The Reverend […]