Congregation looks for ways to mend rift, Ewing Presbyterian Church

NJ.com Story: Congregation looks for ways to mend rift, Ewing Presbyterian Church

• 170+ members meet with the Presbytery panel
• demolition plans that pitted church members against each other in angry camps
• Ewing Administrative Commission’S report overturning the raze decision
• 143-year-old sanctuary.
• vacant since being condemned as unsafe since the spring of 2007.
• the commission has given them three options for the sanctuary
• renovate it for use as a house of worship
• sell or donate it to another organization
• lease it to another organization for restoration.

Colonial PC, (Kansas City) votes to leave PCUSA 927-27

Layman Story: Colonial leaving PCUSA

• Colonial Presbyterian Church near Kansas City
• 1,700-member
• 2-campus
• Congregation voted 927-27 Sunday to leave
• voted 914-29 to join the EPC
• the second largest congregation in Heartland Presbytery.
• 2 Sessions File complaint:
• Southminster PC, Prairie Village, KS 371 members
• First PC, Lee’s Summit, MO 546 members
• G-7.0304 and G.11-0103i
• General Assembly PJC case Sundquist et al. v. Heartland Presbytery.
• Aug. 19, Heartland’s PJC granted a stay of enforcement against Colonial
• district court in Johnson County, Kansas granted a restraining order request by Colonial

Note: That the Colonial web sites has:

• FAQs about the EPC
• Cover Letter to Discernment Summary
• Discernment Summary
• May 23rd Survey Results Document
• August 7 Cover Letter from Session
• August 8 Notice of Special Joint Meeting
• Articles Document
• Bylaws Document
• Info for the Congregation Regarding August 22

HEARTLAND PRESBYTERY (on Colonial Web)

• April 1 Letter to Colonial Members
• Heartland Overtures to the General Assembly
• May 27th Letter to Colonial Members
• 1) Enclosure: "Church's One Foundation"
• 2) Enclosure: Notice Regarding Property
• And MANY more

Jermain Memorial PC (Watervliet, N.Y) CLOSED by Presbytery, awaiting appeal

The Layman Story Church closure hurts local needy; members eye settlement, appeal

Georgia Episcopal Church Appeals Property Ruling to State Supreme Court.

Virtue Online Story: Christ Church, The Mother Church of Georgia in Savannah, has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to review a recent ruling of the Court of Appeals upholding Judge Michael Karpf's October, 2009 decision that Christ Church holds its property in trust for the Diocese of Georgia and The Episcopal Church.

NEWS FLASH: (Layman) No more Mr. Nice Guy in Heartland

Layman Story: No more Mr. Nice Guy in Heartland: Heartland Presbytery seems to have lost faith in its own process and replaced the administrative review committee it assigned to work through a period of discernment with Colonial Presbytery Church, as it decides whether to remain in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Two Presbyterian churches to merge

Indiana Gazette: Story about 2 churches merging in PA.

• NuMine Presbyterian Church (95 yrs)
• Rural Valley Presbyterian (175 yrs)
• -> NuValley Presbyterian Church (@ Rural building)