Consideration of the manse question has brought unusual consequences for one PCA congregation, the Princeton Church of Johnson City, Tennessee. In October 1984 its manse was vacant. There was no pastor, and the congregation was in the pro
Tag: Church Leadership
Aussies Get Spring During the U.S. Summer
Thanks to seven summer (North American summer, that is) workers from the PCA's Servants in Missions Abroad, the Buderim congregation of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on the Sunshine Coast experienced vitalization and growth. Elsewhere in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland, two oth...
Answers to Prayer in 1536 and 1986
Times are tumultuous. Interna
Spencer Line is Busy
To many members of Birmingham's Briarwood Church, he is the elder who taught them Reformation history in their first year as members there.Officials involved in utility rate-making in Alabama know him as the man from the telephone company who always had the right numbers.People active at the asse...
Presbytery Total Climbs
When the First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America met in 1973 commissioners from 16 presbyteries attended. A total of 215 congregations were represented. When the Fifteenth Gen
Smith ‘Retirement’ Rejected
Before getting to that point, the assembly heard a statement from the clerk in which he reported that he had been accused of conflict of interest. He offered to resign. The court accepted his state