FPC Aurora request dismissal from Blackhawk to EPC

Layman Story:

• First Presbyterian Church in Aurora, Ill.
• Blackhawk Presbytery
• to Evangelical Presbyterian Church
• Rev. Jeffrey Moore
• Administrative commission
• April 5 the congregation voted 317-17 (95 percent) to request dismissal
• 847-members
• Blackhawk Presbytery is the home presbytery of Mark Tammen, associate stated clerk and a constitutional lawyer for the denomination. He was among the group that produced the “Louisville Papers,”

UPDATED Layman Story: “We’re going to dismiss them,” John Rickard, the executive for the Blackhawk Presbytery, told The Layman Online Friday. “We’re not trying to beat up on each other.”