Eastminster votes to leave PCUSA for EPC

The Wichita Eagle Story: Eastminster church decides to break from denomination

• "people have voted with their feet,"
• 2,302 members - Eastminster had been the largest church in the presbtery
• Presbytery of Southern Kansas
• The Presbyterian News Service estimated earlier this year that 100 congregations had left the denomination in the past five years
• Presbyterian Lay Committee says that at least four congregations, including Eastminster, have left this month.
• St. Luke Presbyterian Church in Newton also has voted to leave the denomination.
• In a vote last Sunday, the congregation overwhelmingly approved the break on a vote of 657-20.
• Voted to join EPC