by EPC Admin | Apr 3, 2019 | Church News, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Longtime EPC Pastor Don Galardi retired after nearly 40 years of ministry at Community Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Owosso, Mich., in March 2019. He has served as pastor of the Owosso congregation since 1980, and led the church into the EPC’s Presbytery of the...
by EPC Admin | Mar 26, 2019 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Richard Henry “Dick” Little, longtime EPC Pastor and Moderator of the 1997 General Assembly, died March 21 in Winston-Salem, N.C., following a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 87. Little was born June 30, 1931, in Milwaukee, Wis., and grew up in...
by EPC Admin | Mar 25, 2019 | Church News, Denominational News, Emergency Relief, Global Movement, Ministers, Pastors, People, The Jeremiah Journal, Uncategorized
In the March 2019 edition of the Jeremiah Journal, Assistant Stated Clerk Jerry Iamurri and Juan Rivera, Pastor of Iglesia Presbiteriana Westminster in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, describe how some of the donations to the EPC’s Hurricane Maria Emergency Relief Fund...
by EPC Admin | Mar 21, 2019 | Ministers, Pastors, Social Issues, Uncategorized
A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled unanimously on March 15 that the housing allowance tax exemption for ministers is constitutional. The decision reversed a 2017 opinion by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb. Crabb ruled that...
by EPC Admin | Mar 14, 2019 | Denominational News, Leadership Development, Ministers, Pastors, People, Presbytery News, Uncategorized
Members of the Ministerial Vocation Committee (MVC) and Presbytery Ministerial and Candidates Committee Chairs met March 12-13 at the Office of the General Assembly in Orlando. The MVC addresses ministerial issues at the national level of the EPC, and the Presbytery...
by EPC Admin | Mar 5, 2019 | Church News, Emergency Relief, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
First Presbyterian Church of Opelika, Ala., escaped damage during the March 3 tornado outbreak that devastated portions of southern Alabama. As of March 5, 23 people had lost their lives in Beauregard, a rural community about 10 miles south of Opelika. “No one in our...
