by EPC Admin | Oct 17, 2019 | Church News, Church Revitalization, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Spencer Hutchins is 33 now, but he was three years old when he first met Mark Toone, Senior Pastor of Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church in Gig Harbor, Wash. Hutchins grew up in the church, and now he’s helping to lead it as chair of the elder board. “It says a great...
by EPC Admin | Jun 18, 2019 | Church Revitalization, General Assembly Meeting, Leadership Development, Uncategorized
In the 2019 Leadership Institute seminar Transitional Pastor Training, Ken Priddy described the stages in the life of a local church—incline, recline, and decline—and presented some tell-take signs of a declining church. “A church on the incline is usually driven by...
by EPC Admin | Apr 10, 2019 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Denominational News, General Assembly Meeting, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
At its April 2019 meeting, the EPC National Leadership Team (NLT) addressed a variety of topics related to its scope of overseeing the continuing work of the General Assembly between stated meetings. The spring meeting—held April 9-10 at the Office of the General...
by EPC Admin | Jan 24, 2019 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Denominational News, Leadership Development, Uncategorized
At its January 2019 meeting, the EPC National Leadership Team (NLT) addressed a variety of topics related to its scope of overseeing the continuing work of the General Assembly between stated meetings. The winter meeting—held January 22-23 at the Office of the General...
by EPC Admin | Aug 20, 2018 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Denominational News, Events, General Assembly Meeting, Global Movement, Uncategorized, World Outreach
Commissioners to the EPC’s 38th General Assembly approved 26 recommendations, declined two others, and for procedural reasons took no action on an additional five. The Assembly was held June 19-22 at Hope Church in suburban Memphis, Tenn. Recommendations that were...
by EPC Admin | Jul 11, 2018 | Church News, Church Revitalization, General Assembly Meeting, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Restoration Church in Munford, Tenn., is the recipient of the 2018 Bartlett L. Hess Award for church revitalization. The award was announced on June 22 at the 38th General Assembly at Hope Church in Cordova, Tenn. “Receiving this award came as a shock,” Pastor Mike...
