by EPC Admin | May 9, 2018 | Church News, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Hollywood Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Greenville, N.C., celebrated its 75th anniversary on Sunday, May 6. The church started as a Sunday school in the 1920s, and became a particularized church in 1943. WITN News in Greenville aired a story about the day’s...
by EPC Admin | Dec 14, 2017 | Church News, Pastors, Social Issues, Uncategorized
Lead Homelessness, a national initiative formed to fight the causes and effects of homelessness in the United States, has named David Swanson, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Orlando, one of the “11 Most Important Leaders Needed to Solve Homelessness in...
by EPC Admin | Nov 21, 2017 | Church News, Emergency Relief, People, Uncategorized
As of November 20, more than $860,000 has been donated to the EPC’s emergency relief funds for hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. The fund for Hurricane Harvey has received $575,541.54 toward relief efforts in Texas; the Hurricane Irma fund for relief in Florida has...
by EPC Admin | Nov 2, 2017 | Church News, General Assembly Meeting, Ministers, Pastors, People, Social Issues, Uncategorized
The Gospel Coalition’s lead story on November 2, “How the Country’s Largest White Presbyterian Church Became Multiethnic,” tells the story of Hope Church in Cordova, Tenn. Planted in 1988 in a predominately white suburban area, within 20 years the congregation was the...
by EPC Admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Church News, Emergency Relief, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
As of September 28, $3,255 has been contributed to the EPC’s Hurricane Maria emergency relief fund. However, Stated Clerk Jeff Jeremiah said further efforts to assist the three EPC congregations in Puerto Rico are in a “wait and pray” mode. “The recovery and...
by EPC Admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Church News, Emergency Relief, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
As of September 28, a total of $343,072.19 has been contributed to the EPC’s Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma emergency relief funds. “The ‘above and beyond’ giving of our churches and members has been amazing,” said Jeff Jeremiah, EPC Stated Clerk. “I’m so...
