Communications

Red River Presbytery has endorsed the Reverend Judy Madden for election as Moderator of the 192nd General Assembly scheduled to meet in Denton, Texas in June 2023. Reverend Judy Madden, is well known In Red River Presbytery as a “leader of leaders.” Judy is an ordained minister on staff at Pathway (formerly St. Matthew) Cumberland […]

The 146th General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America will meet in Independence, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, June 4-7, 2023, at the Embassy Suites Hotel by Hilton,  5800 Rockside Woods Blvd. The theme is Awaken! Answering God’s Call to Witness based on Romans 13:11-12 KJV.

The Reverend Dr. Richard Leverne Niswonger, 86, of Go Ye Village in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, formerly of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and better known as Dick, died March 7, 2018. We were informed by the US Postal Service March 30, 2023. Dick was a member without charge of Arkansas Presbytery. Dick was born November 3, 1931, in […]

The Reverend Donald Schultz, 91, of Tampa, Florida, an honorably retired member of Grace Presbytery, died March 24, 2023. Don started out his career in the ministry on the mission field in French West Africa with his wife Jean. They raised three children while on the mission field. French West Africa later became known as […]

Belle Mina United Methodist Church and Robert Donnell Presbytery will hold a celebratory worship service to give glory to God for the ministry of the Reverend Robert Donnell on May 20, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at the Old Brick Church in , Mooresville, Alabama. Donnell pastored two Cumberland Presbyterian churches and the United Methodist Church in […]

Robert Donnell Presbytery met March 18, 2023, at the Stevenson Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Stevenson, Alabama. Called to order by Moderator Rev. Matthew Ingram. The Robert Donnell Regional Women’s Ministry introduced the offering recipient, a truck for the Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry in Wimauma, Florida. Frances Dawson resigned as stated clerk. She was presented with […]

First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge (Presbytery of East Tennessee) announced they will hold their annual Family Kite Festival on Saturday, April 22, 2023, beginning at 12 noon Eastern time and continuing through 4 pm on the front lawn of the church, which is located at 127 Lafayette Drive in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on […]

Originally posed by Jodi Rush, Coordinator of Children and Family Ministry for the Discipleship Ministry Team of the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Hello friends, There was a horrific school shooting in Nashville today (March 27, 2023) in which three children and three adults were killed. Unfortunately, this has happened in too many […]

Laura Katherine Fleming, 70, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, mother of the Reverend Dr. Chris Fleming, died March 27, 2023. Kathy, as she was best known, was a member of the Hendersonville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). Her husband, Sam Fleming, is an elder of the Hendersonville Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Their son, Chris, is Coordinator of Adult […]

Bobby Earl Argo, 88, of Trezvant, Tennessee, died March 21, 2023. Bobby was one of three remaining elders of Trezevant Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery for the Mid-South). He had been Mayor of Trezevant.