Communications

Henry Lloyd Thompson, 90, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, died April 17, 2022. He was an active member of Bowling Green Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) where he served as an elder and filled many other roles. He was a veteran of the US Air Force and retired from South Central Bell after 31 years of […]

Cumberland Road podcast: Gwen Roddye – Everyone’s Invited This week (4/19/2022) on the Cumberland Road podcast is guest Gwen Roddye. Gwen is a former General Assembly moderator of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination, a member of the Beaver Creek Church in Powell, Tennessee and a Weight Watcher’s coach. Gwen shares that her faith journey has been […]

Former Bethel Wildcat standout football player Jared Gentry has signed with the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League, Bethel University announced April 17, 2022. Gentry, a defensive lineman from Opelika, Alabama, had a good senior season this past year despite missing several games due to injuries. He finished the season with 29 total […]

Sarah Stanley, 87, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died April 15, 2022. She was a longtime member and elder of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chatanooga (Tennessee-Gerorgia Presbytery).

Pearlie Mae Mitchell, 89, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, died April 11, 2022. She was well know as a song leader and piano player for Beech Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (New Hopewell Presbytery) in Dyersburg where she was also an elder.

Brenthaven Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) in Brentwood, Tennessee, suffered damage to the roof, gutters, fence, and most notably to the steeple which was entirely sheered off the building in a thunderstorm which passed through the Nashville suburb on the night of April 13, 2022. Some church choir members were in the building at the […]

Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) in Fredonia, Kentucky, serves as a storm shelter for their Caldwell County community as needs arise.

“It’s up to us to prepare it [the church sanctuary] for the next generation or two,” the Reverend Mark Hester said. Hester is pastor of Loudon Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee) in Loudon, Tennessee The session plans to renovate the sanctuary of the historic church building, which will celebrate its 140th anniversary in […]

The Reverend Jerrell Morris Underwood, Sr., 85, of Irvington, Kentucky, died April 11, 2022. Jerrell, an honorably retired member of Cumberland Presbytery, was born July 14, 1936, in Fulton, Kentucky, to G.A. and Willene Underwood. He met Lavesta Sue Britton at a church social and they married on November 24, 1955, while Jerrell was a […]

Born January 2, 1901, in the Bells Chapel community in Gibson County, Tennessee, Claude White joined the US Navy in September 1920. On December 7, 1941, he was chief water tender on the battleship USS Oklahoma which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when air forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked. Chief […]