Fremont Presbyterian split and land holdings challenged

Fremont Presbyterian split and land holdings challenged

• Fremont Presbyterian, Sacramento, CA
• Congregation voted 427-164 to leave the national denomination in October.
• A vote on establishing the investigating committee will be held Jan. 9.
• Local Presbyterian leaders have called for an investigation of Fremont to determine if there is a schism
• The announcement by the presbytery has shocked Fremont church leaders, who said they followed Presbyterian guidelines on leaving the denomination.
• They contend that presbytery leaders are changing the rules to keep the church and its 5 acres across the street from California State University, Sacramento.
• Ed: The Presbytery of Sacramento: Thy shall not covert thy neighbors ...

The Christian Post: Pa. PC(USA) Presbytery Sues Church Seeking to Leave

• Redstone Presbytery
• Covenant Presbyterian Church of Ligonier
• 425 members
• Pittsburgh Live
• Last month, Redstone voted to seize the keys of the church to thwart the move to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, saying it first needed to assess church members' desires and the church's finances before allowing the move.
• The congregation of St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church near Somerset split off in 2008 and, more recently, members of Fort Palmer Church in Fairfield left the presbytery.

First Orlando Session recommends dismissal

Layman Story: First Orlando Session recommends dismissal to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church

• Church Website
• Congregation Vote: Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 10:00am
• Founded: March 18, 1876
• Last PCUSA size: 3,521
• Central Florida Presbytery

4 more Ohio PCUSA out the door!

Dayton Daily News Story: 4 area Presbyterian churches leave national denomination

• Lebanon Presbyterian Church
• First Presbyterian in South Charleston
• Kirkmont Presbyterian in Beavercreek
• Greenville Presbyterian in Greenville
• And at each church, more than 90 percent of votes supported measures to split from the denomination.
• Presbytery of the Miami Valley

FPC of North Palm Beach to discuss leaving PCUSA

Palm Beach Post Story: North Palm Beach church may split from Presbyterian group that OK'd gay clergy

• 1,100 members
• Jack Nicklaus
• former GE head Jack Welch.

First Presbyterian Wenatchee, WA out the door and in EPC

This is one church that has been under the Radar. voted two years ago to leave the PCUSA, Has 600 members, Has been released by the North Central Washington Presbytery, with all Property, Has been accepted by the EPC, and took oaths to join EPC last week. I believe there are 10 to 15 other churches in Washington, that are just starting the process to leave PCUSA, the biggest presby churches in Washington.

Sumner PC votes to leave PCUSA

Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald Story: Sumner Presbyterian votes to leave national Presbyterian denomination

• 90% Yes
• 6% No
• 4% Undecided
• move to Evangelical Covenant Church

The Presbytery of Olympia opted out of ordainments. Lay leadership appointments were left up to individual congregations.

Recent departure-elect congregations:

• Chapel Hill Presbyterian of Gig Harbor
• First Presbyterian of Tacoma
• Evergreen Presbyterian in Graham.

EPC church under attack? by Golf balls!

Washington Post Story: Fairfax church in dispute over errant balls from driving range neighbor

2,600 Balls a year!

I seeing golf crews every day picking up driving range balls from the sidewalk and ditch next to ours. Even though they have a HUGE fence to stop them.

Statistics Anyone?

Is it time for me to fire up the statistics machine and see where PCUSA stands (or falls down) in number of churches and members? anyone interested?

Or is the review from GA Junkie sufficient?

Presbytery removes minister from Enid Church that voted to leave PCUSA

Enid News Story: Enid minister removed from post

• The Rev. Roy Schneider
• Retirement scheduled for Dec. 18.
• Enid First Presbyterian Church
• by the Presbytery’s Administrative Council. (Ed: Is this unusual?)
• At a Committee on Ministry meeting Tuesday, Schneider accepted the judgment of the Presbytery’s Administrative Council and stepped aside.
• Members of First Presbyterian voted 131-69 in October to seek dismissal

2 Churches leave the same Ohio Presbytery.

Layman Story: Ohio church votes to leave PCUSA By Jason P. Reagan, The Layman, Posted Thursday, November 3, 2011

• Oct. 30, FPC of South Charleston voted 102-0 to disaffiliate from the PCUSA to EPC.
• Six Presbyterian churches have voted to leave the denomination in October.
• Lebanon Presbyterian Church (LPC) of Lebanon, Ohio voted 304-8 to disaffiliate a week before South Charleston. STORY
• The Presbytery of Miami Valley voted to approve Amendment 10A by a vote of 58-36 and nFOG by voice vote.
• Miami Valley “wants to keep the word grace in gracious dismissal.”

Fremont PC (Sacramento) votes to dissmiss to EPC

KY Post Story: Sacramento congregation to leave Presbyterian Church USA over gay clergy ordination

• Fremont Presbyterian Church
• voted 427 to 164 last Sunday
• join Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
• weekly attendance of about 1,400
• The seventh Sacramento-area church to leave
• The Presbytery of Sacramento

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

FPC Mansfield, OH votes to leave PCUSA

Mansfield News Journal Story Muskingum Valley Presbytery

A view from an Atheist

Blog on PCUSA and allowing gays as leaders.

Four congregations dismissed from Presbyterian Church (USA)

Commercial Appeal Story, Memphis Tennessee: Four congregations dismissed from Presbyterian Church (USA)

• Advent Presbyterian Church of Cordova (1,230 members)
• Woodland United Presbyterian Church of Memphis (287)
• First Presbyterian Church of Ripley, Tenn. (29)
• First Presbyterian Church of Adamsville, Tenn. (37)

Mid-South Presbytery

• Synod of Living Waters
• 55 congregations
• Rejected the amendment by one vote

Presbyterians are not all PCUSA

The News Start Story Monroe, Louisiana

PCUSA no longer exists! Updated

Presbyterian Church USA in now Presbyterian Club USA.

Fox News Story

Christian Post Story

Looks like someone agree with me. The Daily Reporter Story: PCUSA No Longer a Church

Los Alamitos Presbyterian Church Reaffirms Ordination Policy On Human Sexuality In Face Of Expected Changes In National Rules

OC 180 News (blog) Los Alamitos Presbyterian Church Reaffirms Ordination Policy On Human Sexuality In Face Of Expected Changes In National Rules

Trinity Presbyterian Church will close its doors May 1

Trinity Presbyterian Church will close its doors May 1

Oregon Court of Appeals backs PCUSA in property dispute

Oregon Court of Appeals backs national Presbyterian Church in property dispute

Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned the trial judge's decision, ruling the PC(USA) held title to the property, citing both secular law and church doctrine.

Text of rulling on Legeal

Desert Hills PC, Carefree, AZ members support leaving to EPC

Church’s voting majority supports PCUSA departure The Layman

• Desert Hills PC
• Presbytery of Grand Canyon
• 253-46, 84% written ballot
• 500 members
• Congregation declared its intent May 2010
• 18-month discernment process.
• Presbytery’s vote March 11-12, 2011
• Note: multiple PCUSA churches named, Desert Hills.

Georgia Supreme Court Will Hear Christ Church Appeal (Episcopal )

Virtue Online Story By David W. Virtue
Episcopal Diocese of Georgia Story

• Christ Church, Savannah,GA
• Episcopal Diocese of Georgia
• Supreme Court of Georgia Case: # S10G1909
• Two amicus briefs (friend of the court briefs)
• The Presbyterian Lay Committee Brief (PLC)
• The American Anglican Council Brief(AAC)
• Disaffiliated from The Episcopal Church (TEC) in 2007