Houston congregation appeals property case judgment

Layman Story: Houston congregation appeals property case judgment.

• Windwood PC Houston, TX
• Presbytery of New Covenant
• District Court of Harris County ruled against the congregation
• 1,600-members
• Court summary judgment says:
• TX is a hierarchical deference state
• PCUSA is a hierarchical denomination

Colo. County Files Petition to U.S. High Court Over Church Land Dispute

Christian Post Story: Colo. County Files Petition to U.S. High Court Over Church Land Dispute

• Boulder County did not approve Church expansion plans, four years ago
• Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colo.
• Expansion project for Alexander Dawson School was approved in 1995
• Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), under which religious institutions are protected from discriminatory land-use laws.

Sequim Presbyterian PCUSA and EPC

Sequim Gazette Story: Sequim Presbyterian Fellowship begins anew PCUSA: ~ 20 members

The second part of the story is Sequim Community Church (EPC) ~ 780 members

Jermain Memorial PC takes back its church, joins new Presbytery

Troy Record Story: Watervliet congregation takes back its church, joins new Presbytery

Time Union Story: A fight on high gets ever higher

• Jermain Memorial PC, Watervliet, NY (Troy)
• Albany Presbytery
• Joined Ecumenical Presbytery. Ed: Anyone know this one?
• Presbytery changed the locks and padlocked the building in May
• Some charge the Presbytery with coveting its $169,000-$500,009 endowment (Presbyter denies)
• The Jermain will stated that when the church is no longer used that the 1 1/3-acre property would be reverted back to the next Jermain heir
• New York City resident Ann Jermain Walling Billings is a possible heir.
• Billings granted the property back to the parish in a deed dated in March

Eastminster Presbytery sues its own lawyers for malpractice , and loses

Layman Story: Presbytery sues its own lawyers, and loses over Hudson Presbyterian Church who was granted its own property.