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The Reverend Dwight Jess “Skip” Shanley, 76, associate pastor of Crossroads Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas (Arkansas Presbytery), died January 11, 2021, of COVID-19. Dwight was born May 8, 1944 in Rome, New York to Dwight Ralph and Alma Rosland Shanley and was raised in Hillside, New York, in the United Methodist Church. […]

1/14/2021: Janie Stamps, stated clerk of Arkansas Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church reports the Reverend Jack Ryan, pastor, and the Reverend Dwight Shanley, associate pastor, at Crossroads Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, have both recently died because of COVID-19. Several members of the congregation also have the disease. This article is incomplete. […]

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Witness of the Church by the Reverend T.J. Malinoski Beyond a peripheral understanding from television documentaries and a day off from school, I was in my teen years before I was really exposed to the life and ministry of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  My introduction came from […]

Robert Mark Blakeburn, 71, known to all as Mark, died January 10, 2021. Mark was a long-time employee of the Cumberland Presbyterian Bookstore in Memphis, Tennessee, and was a member of Faith Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Bartlett, Tennessee. He is brother to the Reverend Larry Blakeburn (Presbytery of East Tennessee) and son of the late […]

Rev. Shelia O’Mara Moderator, 189th General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church   This first week of 2021 has turned out to be quite the start of what many of us hoped would be the beginning of a new year that would bring the end to a pandemic that has disrupted our lives in ways […]

Happy New Year’s greetings and blessings to you during the season of Epiphany Rev. Shelia O’Mara Moderator, 189th General Assembly As we are closing out the Christmas season and celebrate the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child, are we, like the Magi, looking for an earthly king?  Are we looking for a king to […]

Donald Arthur Peterson, 85, died December 31, 2020. He was a member of Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery del Cristo) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Don was active in the church throughout his life, serving as a deacon and an elder. He also served as a member of the General Assembly Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian […]

Vivian Amelia Leach Coleman, 86, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, died December 31, 2020. Vivian was born May 27, 1934, in Lavinia, Tennessee. She was a member First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge (Presbytery of East Tennessee), where she served as an elder, Sunday school teacher, vacation Bible school teacher, and choir member. Vivian was […]

Our missionaries to Guatemala, Fhanor and Socorro ​Pejendino, traveled from Guatemala to Colombia for Christmas vacation and for their Home Assignment (three months in Colombia). Sunday, Socorro informed Lynn Thomas and Milton Ortiz they are both infected with COVID-19. The infection probably happened in Colombia. Fhanor is not doing well and is now in the […]

Sandra Smith will explore the spiritual dimension of the Enneagram January 27-28, 2021 from 9:00am – 12:00pm CST. CFI will hold an anti-racism workshop February 22, 23, and 24, 2021 from 9:00am – 10:30am CST. For more information about these online opportunities contact CFI’s Program Coordinator, Brittany Meeks, at formation@memphisseminary.edu.