by EPC Admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Howard Grady Shockley Jr., Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic since 1999, passed away on August 7, 2018, at Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Medical Center. He was 74. The only son of the late Grady and Lucille Shivers Shockley, Shockley felt the call to...
by EPC Admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Andrew Brunson, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
In response to a Turkish court’s ruling July 25 to release Andrew Brunson from prison to house arrest, officials in Washington, D.C., have issued statements supporting the decision. Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)...
by EPC Admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Andrew Brunson, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Turkish media is reporting that Andrew Brunson has been moved from prison and put under house arrest. According to the Daily Sabah, the EPC Teaching Elder has been moved to his home in Izmir due to “health issues.” The Second High Penal Court in Izmir issued the...
by EPC Admin | Jul 20, 2018 | Andrew Brunson, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
A Turkish court’s decision to return Andrew Brunson to prison at the conclusion of the July 18 hearing until the next hearing on October 12 has drawn intense, bipartisan criticism. Late on July 18, President Donald Trump said on social media that not granting...
by EPC Admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Andrew Brunson, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
In response to Andrew Brunson’s return to custody following hearings on July 18, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis, Jeanne Shaheen, James Lankford, and Lindsey Graham issued a joint statement calling for his immediate release. The court in Aliaga, Turkey, remanded the...
by EPC Admin | Jul 9, 2018 | Andrew Brunson, General Assembly Meeting, Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
[youtube https://youtu.be/CB70rhhrz4g] Addressing the 38th General Assembly on June 21, Jacqueline Furnari—Andrew Brunson’s daughter—described her family’s ordeal over the 20 months since her father’s imprisonment in Turkey. “October 7, 2016—more than a year and a...
