41Apr 26, 2023
The music video for singer Nicole Witt’s country music track “Bourbon” was partly filmed in the chapel at the Cumberland Presbyterian Birthplace Shrine at Montgomery Bell State Park near Burns, Tennessee. The artist neither sought permission to use the chapel nor credited the denomination in the video. It is not known if Ms Witt is […]
42Apr 26, 2023
Memphis Theological Seminary announced April 26, 2023, their commencement speaker will be Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas, Sr., the presiding bishop of the First Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, which includes Arkansas and Tennessee. Prior to his election as bishop, he served as the seventh president/dean of The Phillips School of Theology (“The […]
43Apr 24, 2023
Betty Jo Lansden, 91, of Madisonville, Kentucky, died April 20, 2023. Betty was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Madisonville (Covenant Presbytery).
44Apr 24, 2023
In their 2023 season opener at the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 15, 2023, the Memphis Showboats of the rebooted United States Football League succumbed to the Philadelphia Stars 27 to 23. Former Bethel University Wildcat cornerback Karrheem Darrington, #25, was a part of that history as a defensive back on […]
45Apr 24, 2023
Bobby Doyle Coppenger, 86, of Maryville, Tennessee, died April 19, 2023, after a long illness. He was a member and elder at Maryville First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee).
46Apr 24, 2023
Arkansas Presbytery met March 10-11, 2023, with Barren Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Mount Pleasant, Arkansas. Rev. Alan Meinzer was pastor host. Rev. Nicholas Chambers was elected moderator and Rev. Tom Merchant vice moderator. The offering was dedicated to the Leo Smith Scholarship Fund. Reinstated Rev. John Eubanks from Ewing-Burrow Presbytery as a ministerial member. Transferred […]
47Apr 24, 2023
“Finding Faith in The Ordinary” The Spring 2023 Huddle Event of the Nashville Presbytery Come and engage with Rev. T.J. Malinoski, Saturday morning May 6, 2023, 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m., West Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Free breakfast burritos and bear hugs! In the past 20 years, more people are entering the Christian faith through […]
48Apr 24, 2023
David Alan Downs, 68, of White, Georgia, died April 17, 2023. David was a talented musician who played guitar and piano. He enjoyed playing during services at his church, Bartow Cumberland Presbyterian (Tennessee -Georgia Presbytery) where he and wife Toni were members.
49Apr 24, 2023
Dona Keith Milam, 91, of the Short Creek Community in Grayson County, Kentucky, near Leitchfield, died April 20, 2023. Dona was born December 21,1931, in Louisville, Kentucky; the only child born to Joseph and Dora Keith. She married to the Reverend Robert Milam, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, on March 16,1948. For the 61 years of […]
50Apr 21, 2023
Walter Lewis Inman, Sr., 92, died April 12, 2023, after a lengthy illness. He was an elder at Brush Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery).