Communications

Elizabeth Dora Seiler Kisling, 87, best known as Pat, died May 14, 2021. Pat was an elder from the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Cumberland Presbyterian Church and served the Cumberland Presbyterian Denomination as assistant to Kentucky Synod executives the Reverends James W. Knight and J.C. Womack at the Kentucky Synodic Center when it was located in […]

Doris S. English, 92, died in Johnson City, Tennessee, April 26, 2021. A talented pianist and soloist, Doris was a member and provided music ministry for Pleasant Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee) in Chuckey, Tennessee. She was born August 26, 1928, to the Reverend Bert H. Styles and Lucy Penland Styles.

Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee, announced May 13, 2021, that eSports would be the institutions 26th varsity team sport. Over 250 accredited Colleges and Universities in the United States compete in varsity eSports. There are currently fourteen eSports teams in the Mid-South Conference competing in a variety of games, including League of Legends, Rocket League, […]

The Reverend Howard Leslie Bone, 81, of Independence, Missouri, known to most as Leslie, died May 10, 2021. He was born June 13, 1939, to Howard Taft Bone and Ruby Mae Puckett Bone in the Wheel community in Carlisle County, Kentucky, and raised in Lowes, Kentucky, in Graves County near Mayfield. He was baptized and […]

Lily Grace Gosnell, 18, of Chuckey, Tennessee, who attended Fairview Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died May 3, 2021, after a severe asthma attack led to respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. She was a senior at Chuckey-Doak High School and a member of the soccer team. Lily was an organ donor.

A Call To Prayer As the Office of General Assembly moves forward with plans for an in-person General Assembly at the end of June in Louisville KY, I have been listening to the Holy Spirit as to what, if any, thoughts I could share in a final pastoral letter to the church before my time […]

Jewell “Charlotte” Beard Davis, 87, died April 29, 2021, in Missouri. She was born on the family farm near Competition, Missouri, July 28, 1933, to Stanley & Helen (Johnson) Beard. Charlotte joined White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery) when she married Carl Jean Davis, February 3, 1951. She was a member for over 70 […]

Arkansas Presbytery has nominated and endorsed the Reverend Alan Meinzer, pastor of the Barren Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church, for Moderator of the 190th General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, June 27 through July 2, 2021. The Reverend Alan Meinzer does not have a Cumberland Presbyterian heritage, but he […]

Rev. John Grover Lovelace The Reverend John Grover Lovelace (North Central Presbytery), 91, known to some as J.G., died April 30, 2021, in Evansville. Indiana. Born in Ada, Oklahoma, August 26, 1929, to Mr. And Mrs. John G. Lovelace, Sr., John was baptized in 1939 and joined the Latta Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Ada, Oklahoma, […]

MCKENZIE, Tenn. April 15, 2021 – Bethel University is planning to return to near-normal operations for the fall 2021 semester. Plans being developed on the McKenzie campus for the College of Arts & Sciences this fall include a return to in-classroom instruction as the default mode of instruction and a more robust campus life experience, […]