Communications

Part-Time Is Plenty: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy by G. Jeffrey MacDonald A Book Review by Andy McClung   A once-thriving congregation shrinks in membership until finances necessitate changing from a full-time to a part-time pastor. Over the next several years–or even decades–the membership dwindles while the focus on survival increases, and the focus on doing […]

Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness by Richard Lui Zondervan Books, 2021 Reviewed by Pat White Enough About Me caught my eye when I saw it was written by Richard Lui, a journalist and anchor for NBC News and MSNBC whom I have enjoyed following. Even more noteworthy to me is that Richard […]

Sierra Nicole Keenan, a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in McKenzie, Tennessee (West Tennessee Presbytery), is the 2021-2022 Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry/Bethel University Scholarship Recipient. A native of McKenzie, Sierra is the daughter of Thomas and Charro Keenan. Sierra graduated from McKenzie High School in 2019. She enrolled at Bethel University in the […]

The Wildcats will play five home games and six road game this fall. Bethel plays six of their first eight games on the road. The Cats open the season on the road in Cleveland, Mississippi Thursday, September 2 against NCAA DII Delta State. It will be the 12th meeting between the programs with DSU holding […]

The Reverend Charles “Keith” O’Keith Eddlemon, Jr., 56, of Memphis, Tennessee, a member of West Tennessee Presbytery, died July 8, 2021. He served on the teaching staff at Lindenwood Christian Church in Memphis and, after graduating from Memphis Theological Seminary and being ordained, was the pastor of Cherokee Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in Cherokee, […]

Jesse B. Jones, 87, of Jackson and Union City, Tennessee, died July 3, 2021. He was a faithful member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church while a resident of Union City, and later at Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Jackson, where he served in many different capacities. Both churches are in West Tennessee Presbytery.

Frank Butcher Hillard Franklin Butcher, Jr., 75, died July 12, 2021. Frank was a former 40-year member and elder of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville, Tennessee, (Murfreesboro Presbytery) but was currently a member of Cloyd’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where his son, the Reverend Kenneth Franklin Butcher, is associate […]

Elizabeth Smith Love Everett of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died July 7, 2021. She was a long-time member of Red Bank Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) and taught a women’s Sunday school class for many years.

MCKENZIE, Tenn. July 8, 2021 – Bethel University announced on Thursday that it will extend its waiver of standardized test requirements for admission through the fall semester of 2022. The waiver comes as part of the University’s continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic and applies only to the College of Arts and Sciences traditional undergraduate […]

Ronald Charles Stevens, 76, of Des Moines, Iowa, died June 30, 2021. Ron was a deacon at Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee) in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he was plant manager at BTL Industries.