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July 25, 2020, Arkansas Presbytery: Because of the current situation with the Coronavirus, the Executive Committee of Arkansas Presbytery met on July 25th, 2020, at Sherwood Cumberland Presbyterian Church to discuss the Fall Meeting of Presbytery. All boards and committees need to meet and submit their reports and budget requests to the stated clerk by […]

Mid-South Conference Announces Football Decisions for 2020-21 August 11, 2020, Bowling Green, Kentucky: Two Mid-South Conference football divisions have postponed their fall divisional schedule while a third intends to play this fall, MSC Commissioner Eric Ward announced on Tuesday. The Appalachian and Bluegrass Division’s administrative councils recommended — with a subsequent vote by those institutions’ […]

August 11, 2020, Trinity Presbytery: Moderator Jack Holt, after prayer and in consultation with some in the Trinity body and considering that many Trinity members have underlying health problems, following the recommended guidelines of the CDC, and realizing that COVID19 will seemingly remain quite active for some time, issues the following cancellations and plans for […]

The Mid-South Conference, of which Bethel University is a member, announced August 10, 2020, the postponement of fall sports to spring 2021 due to concerns surrounding COVID-19. While the conference schedule is adjusted, institutions are given the autonomy to play non-conference games this fall. The sports impacted by the decision are men and women’s cross […]

Rosa Nell Hill Caldwell, 89, of Paducah, Kentucky, died on August 5, 2020. She was a devoted member of Enoch Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (Purchase Presbytery) where she served as a deacon, usher, Sunday school teacher, and Mother of the Church. She was born in Paducah, Kentucky on January 11, 1931, to the […]

Gladys Marie Murray Diamond, 75, widow of the Reverend James Diamond, mother to the Reverend Steve Howell-Diamond (Robert Donnell Presbytery), and mother-in-law to the Reverend Cardelia Howell-Diamond (denominational Coordinator of Women’s Ministry), died on August 4, 2020. Gladys was no longer a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She was born July 27, 1945 in […]

Cassandra Naomi Stockburger, 95, once of Cleveland, Tennessee (then Chattanooga Presbytery), who served as a missionary of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cauca Valley Presbytery, Colombia, South America, from 1948 to 1950, died on July 31, 2020. She was the aunt of the Reverend Donna Stockburger Heflin (West Tennessee Presbytery). Aware of a call to […]

The Reverend Dr. John David Hall, 88, (Robert Donnell Presbytery) who served as moderator of the 162nd General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church which met in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1992, died on August 2, 2020. John David was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 22, 1932, to Jewell Camp Hall and Mary Lee Benson […]

Emma Keown Patterson, 101, of Sacramento, Kentucky, died Wednesday, July 29, 2020. She was born February 20, 1919. Emma was a member of Sacramento Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) and served as both the church pianist and organist for many years. She worked for Boeing Aircraft as a “Rosie the Riveter” during the World War […]

Eugene Hill, 84, of Falkner, Mississippi, died on July 27, 2020. He was a member of Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) in Falkner. Eugene was born on September 3, 1935, in Falkner to Juanita and Robert Hill. He was married to Bobbie Jean Robertson for 68 years. Eugene was uncle to the […]