Communications

Thursday evening, April 8, 2021, the Associated Church Press held their annual Best of Church Press Awards ceremony. 767 entrants vied for awards. We are delighted to announce the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine was honored in two of the eight categories in which we competed. REPORTING AND WRITING: FEATURE ARTICLE: Magazine, Long Format (more than 1,200 […]

On April 9, 2021, the Office of the General Assembly announced the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America would not hold a General Assembly in 2021. Therefore, the expected concurrent Assemblies will not take place in Louisville, Kentucky, June 27- July 2, 2021. There are no changes to plans for the 190th CPC Assembly but, obviously, […]

Codie Austin Clark of Sharon, Tennessee, was arrested April 7, 2021, on one count of Arson of a Place of Worship for setting a fire on Easter Sunday at the New Salem Cumberland Presbyterian Church along Highway 89 in Sharon (West Tennessee Presbytery), according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. With the assistance of the […]

Dr. John Edd Moore, 80, of Newbern, Tennessee, died on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. He was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dyersburg (West TennesseePresbytery) and had been Vice President of Technology at Dyersburg State Community College. He was born February 22, 1941, in Newbern to Eddie Moore and the Virgie Hughley Moore.

CPYC, as planned, will be a live event which will take place June 23-26, 2021. It will start late afternoon June 23 (Wednesday) and end by noon on June 26 (Saturday). It will take place at Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee. For more information: https://cpc.app-staging.com/cpyc/

The Reverend Joseph Ray Vaught, 73, known best as Joe, a member of Cumberland Presbytery, died April 1, 2021. Joe was born October 2, 1947, in Evansville, Indiana, to Dorris Vaught and Dorothy Pruitt Vaught. He graduated from Central High School in 1965, attended Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee (now Bethel University) and finished his […]

The Reverend Gordon Campbell, 91, an honorably retired minister of Missouri Presbytery, died April 1, 2021. Gordon was born July 26, 1929, in the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from Central High School in Springfield in 1947. He married Forda Nathane Murray in 1950. Gordon’s father, Major […]

Matthew Ryan Looney, 32, a member of the Richland Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery), died March 29, 2021.

Lucille P. Stanley, 104, of Clarksville, Tennessee, died Friday, March 26, 2021. She was a member of the McAdoo Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery).

Wilma Seay, 96, of the New Hope community near Paducah, Kentucky, died Tuesday, March 23, 2021. She was a lifelong member of New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) where she served as a Sunday School Teacher. She was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry.