Communications

At least 67 Cumberland Presbyterian pastors were among over 300 Tennessee faith leaders who denounced both the ideology of the New Century Foundation and the location of its annual meeting, Montgomery Bell State Park near Burns, Tennessee. For Cumberland Presbyterians the park is particularly significant as it surrounds the approximate 5.25 acre historic site where […]

Effective November 25, 2022, Jamie Blanton, Chief Advancement Officer for Cumberland Youth and Family Services (formerly the Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home) will leave for another opportunity. Blanton has served at the former Children’s Home for about three and a half years. “I am firm believer that I came to Cumberland Youth and Family Services at […]

Laura Díaz, a Cumberland Presbyterian in Colombia, South America, and student at Universidad de Manizales has won the prestigious Simon Bolivar Award for Journalism. With coauthor Laura Aguilar, Díaz was honored for a piece in Revista Página which details the life journey of a woman devoted to the theater. Translated from Spanish, the honorarium states, […]

MCKENZIE, Tenn. -The No. 4 Bethel University Wildcats became the first Bethel team in modern day program history to win 11 games in a season and be undefeated at that mark. The 2018 squad was 10-0 during the regular season. Bethel’s longest winning streaks prior to this year had been 10 in a row in […]

The Reverend Dr. Don F. Thomas, 69, of Cordova (Memphis), Tennessee, Presbytery for the Midsouth, died November 11, 2022. Don was retired. He studied Pastoral Psychology and Counseling at Boston University and Mental Health Counseling at the University of North Texas. More information will be added as it becomes available.

November 7, 2022, Bethel University’s Joaquin Collazo III, was named the Mid-South Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week, conference officials announced. Collazo threw for 255 yards and four touchdowns in the Wildcats’ 59-6 victory over Faulkner (Alabama). He completed 17 of his 32 passes and caught a 12-yard pass for a touchdown. He has […]

Shirley A. Morris, 77, of Fairfield, Illinois, died on Friday, November 4, 2022. She was a member of the Fairfield Cumberland Presbyterian Church (North Central Presbytery) and loved her time spent volunteering for the Clothesline in Fairfield.

On November 4, 2022, a tornado struck the area of Idabell, in southeastern Oklahoma (Choctaw Presbytery), and moved to the east toward Eagletown. Another tornado touched down north of Broken Bow in the Battiest and Smithville area. Around 185 structures have been heavily damaged or destroyed, dozens of residents have been left homeless, and at […]

Wanda Gomer died November 4, 2022. She was a church organist in Red River Presbytery for many years, first at Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas, and then at St. Matthew Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Burleson, Texas (now known as Pathway), where she and husband Stanley Gomer were charter members. She played for […]

Dawson Bailey Smith, Sr., 87, of Lewisburg, Tennessee, died November 2, 2022. He was a member of Fayetteville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Colombia Presbytery) where he served as an elder and a Sunday school teacher for many years.