Communications

Jeff Britt, coach of Bethel University’s men’s basketball team reached his 500th career win when the Wildcats defeated the Tennessee Southern FireHawks (Pulaski, Tennessee) 70 to 60 on December 8, 2022. “It’s another win, and I feel fortunate to be able to coach and be around the game this long. Growing up in Sedalia, Kentucky […]

The Reverend Robert Lee Truax, Jr., 76, of Lakeland, Tennessee, reportedly died in early-December 2022. He apparently suffered head trauma from a fall while walking home from the grocery store. A native Memphian, Robert graduated from Central High School in 1964. He, for many years, was a member of, and was granted honorably retired status […]

William David Money, Sr., 79, of Winchester, Tennessee, died December 9, 2022. He was a life-long member of Goshen Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery), having been born into the church as had many generations of his ancestors before him.

Charles Calvin Riedel, 87, of Dover, Arkansas, died December 10, 2022. Calvin was a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Russellville (Arkansas Presbytery) where he served as a deacon and treasurer for more than 20 years. Calvin and wife, Linda, were fixtures at the church. He served as superintendent of the North New […]

Cole David Coffman, 27, died August 29, 2022, in Columbia, Missouri. He was a member of White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery) in Lebanon, Missouri. Cole served in the United States Army until his medical retirement due to an IED explosion in Kuwait.

Rescued from a closed church, the items pictured are being stored at the Newbern Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery for the Mid-South), 310 E Main St., Newbern, Tennessee, 38059. They are available for free to the first Cumberland Presbyterian church who makes arrangements to pick them up. Contact Newbern’s session clerk, Jamie Berkley, at (731) 676-8626 […]

For more then 21 years, Owensboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) in Owensboro, Kentucky, has hosted a live nativity production which began as an idea of Jan Catron who still directs the event. Visitors experience the night of Jesus’ birth from the comfort of their vehicle. The Church presents five scenes which begin with the […]

Marjorie Ann Sleath Kendall, 82, of Troy, Tennessee, died December 1, 2022. Marjorie was a member of New Ebenezer Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cornerstone Presbytery), where she served as a choir director and treasurer for many years.

The Center for Pastoral Wholeness & Chaplaincy Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary, in collaboration with The Center for Faith and Imagination, is now actively recruiting chaplains to participate in a Chaplains Only small group.  The group will meet monthly, or at a pace negotiated with the participants.  The focus is spiritual sustenance for chaplains as […]

Hazel Lee Parish Gardner, 97, formerly of Sharon, Tennessee, died December 5, 2022. Hazel was born December 12, 1924 in Sharon to Robert Major Parish and Bessie Lee Jackson Parish. She married Albert Olion Gardner December 27, 1941. She was a long-time member of Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hopewell Presbytery) in Sidonia, Tennessee, but had […]