Communications

Dr. Robert Bourne, an elder at Camden Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery), died February 7, 2021. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as it becomes available.

Many of Bethel University’s athletic seasons have been delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bethel Lady Wildcats opened their soccer season on the road in Lawrenceville, Georgia Sunday afternoon February 7, 2021, against the Georgia Gwinnett Grizzlies. The Lady Wildcats played solid from start to finish and won 3-1. Bethel Lady Wildcats Softball will […]

Anthony S. Martino, 93, a member of Chattanooga First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery), died February 2, 2021. His long-time membership at First Church began when the church was downtown before moving to North Moore Road. Coach Martino came to Chattanooga to play football but worked in various coaching positions at Hixson High School for […]

Lloyd Osborne McMillan, 97, sometimes known as Mac, was an elder in the Warrensburg, Missouri, Cumberland Presbyterian Church and was always active in Missouri Presbytery. He was a great source of history of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Missouri. Mac died January 29, 2021. Mac met Imogene Wayman, the new preacher the Reverend W.O. Wayman’s […]

Estella Ruth Louder, 91, formerly of Fairfield, Illinois, died February 6, 2021, of COVID-19. Her son, Larry Louder, died February 4, 2021, also of COVID-19. Ruth was a stalwart member of the Fairfield, Illinois, Cumberland Presbyterian Church (North Central Presbytery) where she taught Sunday school for 70 years. She served as treasurer for the church […]

Lawrence “Larry” Louder, 73, died February 4, 2021 of COVID-19. Larry was a 1969 graduate of Bethel College (now Bethel University). He was president of Phi Delta Sigma 1968-1969. Larry, well know in the Bethel College community and in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was the older brother of the Reverend Steve Louder and nephew of […]

Bettye Jean Loggins McCaffrey Ellis, 91, of Dyer, Tennessee, died February 2, 2021. Bettye, a member of the Dyer Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery), was the 4th great niece of Rev. Samuel McAdow, one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She served the Dyer congregation in many ways including Sunday school teacher, […]

The Reverand Fhanor Pejendino (Cauca Valley Presbytery), a Cumberland Presbyterian pastor and missionary to Guatemala, died February 2, 2021, after a struggle with COVID-19. Fhanor and his wife, Socorro, are a Colombian Cumberland Presbyterian clergy couple working as missionaries. While visiting their home in Colombia over the Christmas holiday they both contracted COVID-19. Socorro recovered, […]

The Reverend Doctor Luciano Jaramillo, 86, founding pastor of El Camino Cumberland Presbyterian Church in West Miami Beach, Florida (Grace Presbytery), died February 1, 2021. Luciano was well known and highly regarded for having led the team effort by the International Bible Society to develop the Nueva Version Internacional (NVI), a Spanish Language Protestant Bible […]

Andy McClung, stated clerk, Synod of Great Rivers: Synod of Great Rivers postponed its April 4, 2020, stated meeting due to the pandemic. After two attempts to meet via technology, both of which failed due to lack of achieving a quorum, Moderator Rev. Michael Reno continued the postponement until the next stated meeting on April […]