Friday, March 22, 2013

Mountain (PA) Church finds home with ECO

Mountain Presbyterian Church finds home with ECO
  • Sunbury, PA (Susquehanna River Valley)
  • dismissed from the PCUSA to ECO on Jan. 19
  • Presbytery of Northumberland
  • Started in 1828
  • 86 Members
  • "The presbytery was very gracious, very accommodating"
  • October 2012 unanimous vote
  • three years of per capita, totaling $7,900
  • ECO does not have per-capita payments, instead requiring a 1-percent annual fee of local church budgets

1 comment:

  1. Redstone Presbytery dismissed Ardara Presbyterian Church to the EPC on Saturday, March 23rd.

    2011 Membership was 146. The dismissal required a payment of $9,600 (2,400 a year for 4 years), plus turn over of copies of all Session minutes, rolls, etc. And return of any PC(USA) insignia, etc.

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