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Cheryl McGinley Cobb, 73, of Dyersburg, Tennessee died Wednesday, December 23, 2020, in Dyersburg. Born in Detroit, Michigan, March 4, 1947, Cheryl was a devoted member of the Dyersburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) where she served as an elder and deacon for many years. Her memberships included the Community Bible Study, Women’s Book […]

The Reverend David Rudolph Barnett, 92, of McLeansboro, Illinois, and an honorably retired member of North Central Presbytery died December 26, 2020. He was best know as Rudy. Rudy was born to a the Reverend Joseph Otto Barnett and Augusta Wiedeman Barnett April 3, 1928, in Equality, Gallitan County, Illinois. Rudy was educated in the […]

Some Cumberland Presbyterian Churches made the decision to cancel their Sunday Services after a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Around 6:30 on Christmas morning 2020, a bomb hidden inside a camper exploded on Second Avenue North close to Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The blast injured three people and damaged 41 businesses including […]

During the night of December 21/22, 2020, an unknown person or persons vandalized a number of gravestones in the cemetery at Unity Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) near Hardin, in Marshall County, Kentucky. Renee Sledd Turnbow, a member of the Unity Church since February 1, 2010, reported the incident on Facebook. The church was founded […]

Charles Edward Sturgeon Jr., 81, of Palm City, Florida, died December 7, 2020. He was a member of the Owensboro, Kentucky, Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery). Known to some variously as Sonny or just Sturg, he was born April 20, 1939, in Owensboro and educated in the public schools there. He competed in football, track, […]

Elmer “Dean” Hudson, Sr., 89, of Calico Rock, Arkansas, died Friday, December 18, 2020. He was a member and elder at Calico Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery). He was born June 06, 1931, in Calico Rock and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was the principal of the Mountain Home […]

John Gordon Skeen, Jr., 79, of Lebanon, Tennessee, died December 12, 2020. He was a member of Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where he had served as a deacon, elder, and taught Sunday school for many years.

December 16, 2020, Memphis Theological Seminary president, the Reverend Jody Hill, announced the institution’s accreditation had been reaffirmed by SACSCOC for ten years without stipulations. MTS was also accredited by ATS through 2025. Both of these accrediting bodies have also approved Memphis Theological Seminary to offer distance education.

July 23, 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the “Face It, Masks Fight COVID-19” public service announcement campaign designed to encourage Tennesseans to wear protective face masks when in public situations. The campaign launched the next day and is running on “broadcast and cable television, digital, social media, print, and billboards” statewide. November 18, 2020, […]

Alice Joan Mason Wilson, 75, of Dickson, Tennessee, died December 8, 2020. She was born August 26, 1945, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was a life-long Cumberland Presbyterian. She belonged to the Dickson Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). She taught Sunday school, helped with vacation Bible school, belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry, and always […]