Communications

Donald Arthur Peterson, 85, died December 31, 2020. He was a member of Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery del Cristo) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Don was active in the church throughout his life, serving as a deacon and an elder. He also served as a member of the General Assembly Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian […]

Vivian Amelia Leach Coleman, 86, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, died December 31, 2020. Vivian was born May 27, 1934, in Lavinia, Tennessee. She was a member First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge (Presbytery of East Tennessee), where she served as an elder, Sunday school teacher, vacation Bible school teacher, and choir member. Vivian was […]

Our missionaries to Guatemala, Fhanor and Socorro ​Pejendino, traveled from Guatemala to Colombia for Christmas vacation and for their Home Assignment (three months in Colombia). Sunday, Socorro informed Lynn Thomas and Milton Ortiz they are both infected with COVID-19. The infection probably happened in Colombia. Fhanor is not doing well and is now in the […]

Sandra Smith will explore the spiritual dimension of the Enneagram January 27-28, 2021 from 9:00am – 12:00pm CST. CFI will hold an anti-racism workshop February 22, 23, and 24, 2021 from 9:00am – 10:30am CST. For more information about these online opportunities contact CFI’s Program Coordinator, Brittany Meeks, at formation@memphisseminary.edu.

Cheryl McGinley Cobb, 73, of Dyersburg, Tennessee died Wednesday, December 23, 2020, in Dyersburg. Born in Detroit, Michigan, March 4, 1947, Cheryl was a devoted member of the Dyersburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) where she served as an elder and deacon for many years. Her memberships included the Community Bible Study, Women’s Book […]

The Reverend David Rudolph Barnett, 92, of McLeansboro, Illinois, and an honorably retired member of North Central Presbytery died December 26, 2020. He was best know as Rudy. Rudy was born to a the Reverend Joseph Otto Barnett and Augusta Wiedeman Barnett April 3, 1928, in Equality, Gallitan County, Illinois. Rudy was educated in the […]

Some Cumberland Presbyterian Churches made the decision to cancel their Sunday Services after a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Around 6:30 on Christmas morning 2020, a bomb hidden inside a camper exploded on Second Avenue North close to Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The blast injured three people and damaged 41 businesses including […]

During the night of December 21/22, 2020, an unknown person or persons vandalized a number of gravestones in the cemetery at Unity Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) near Hardin, in Marshall County, Kentucky. Renee Sledd Turnbow, a member of the Unity Church since February 1, 2010, reported the incident on Facebook. The church was founded […]

Charles Edward Sturgeon Jr., 81, of Palm City, Florida, died December 7, 2020. He was a member of the Owensboro, Kentucky, Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery). Known to some variously as Sonny or just Sturg, he was born April 20, 1939, in Owensboro and educated in the public schools there. He competed in football, track, […]

Elmer “Dean” Hudson, Sr., 89, of Calico Rock, Arkansas, died Friday, December 18, 2020. He was a member and elder at Calico Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Arkansas Presbytery). He was born June 06, 1931, in Calico Rock and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was the principal of the Mountain Home […]