Organize the web stories, info on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) troubles: Property Ownership, Church Withdrawals, Ordination Standards, Hierarchical vs. Connectional.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
PCUSA Louisville to reduce staff by 30
- NewsOK Story (AP): Presbyterians offer severance to 30 in Louisville
- Original Story: Courier Journal Louisville KY
- 250 jobs in five separate cuts since 2002, 186 through layoffs.
- 346 denominational employees in Louisville
- 300 mission and other workers elsewhere.
- 14 laid off in March 2009
- Projected Income 2012: $76.2 million — down 19 percent from this year’s $93.8 million
- budgets for final approval by the church’s legislative General Assembly in July
- unpaid one-week employee furlough in 2009
- salary freeze for 2010. Prior to the recession
- projected revenue was $100 million per year
Thursday, March 25, 2010
First PC in Beaver, Pa dismissed
Layman Online Story: Beaver-Butler’s largest church to leave PCUSA
Christian Post Story: Multi-Site Church Cleared to Leave PC(USA)
If the Indiana court ruling is approved by the US Supreme Court, this could be extortion legally as well as morally.
Beaver County Times: Beaver congregation splits from national Presbyterian Church (USA)
Monday, March 22, 2010
Oakfield (N.Y.) Community Bible Church wins auction of own property from Presbytery
- Layman Story: "Congregation wins back property at auction"
- Ga Junkie: An Interesting Tale Of Stewardship, Property, And The PC(USA) Trust Clause
- Daily News Online: 'A million prayers' answered at church auction
Community Bible Church was Oakfield Independent Presbyterian Church.
Valued: $400,000 Bid: $50,000
Genesee Valley General Presbyter Linda Badger Becker described the property as a liability.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Oakfield Independent be auctioned off March 18 in Oakfield, N.Y.
Layman Story: Embattled church property on the auction block
- Oakfield Independent Presbyterian Church (OIPC)
- Presbytery of Genessee Valley
Indiana court rejects PCUSA property claim to Olivet EPC
Heldt’s ruling rejects virtually every argument that PCUSA lawyers have been making in various property disputes across the country.
- Layman Story: Indiana court rejects PCUSA property claim The Layman
- GA Junkie: Indiana Court Awards Property To Particular Church And Not PC(USA) Presbytery And Synod
- Letters to the Editor: Court agrees that Olivet is and should be God’s steward of property
- Presbytery of Ohio Valley: Olivet Info Page
- Synod of Lincoln Trails
- Olivet Presbyterian Church, Evansville, Ind.
Article Summary:
- To affiliate or not to affiliate: That is the question
- No legally cognizable trust
- Inconsistencies in the Book of Order
