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...
by EPC Admin | Feb 25, 2019 | Global Movement, Home Missions, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
John Bueno, EPC Home Missionary serving with Latins United Christian Ministries (LUCM), invites you to read his Spring 2019 newsletter, in which he discusses Latin cross-cultural ministries in the EPC. Among the highlights are Hispanic EPC church plants in Memphis,...
by EPC Admin | Feb 20, 2019 | EPC Authors, Ministers, Pastors, Uncategorized
David Swanson, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Orlando, has published his fifth book, The Economy of God: Discovering the Joy of Financial Obedience. The book is a compilation of a 12-week sermon series on money and generosity. As Swanson states in the book’s...
