by EPC Admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Denominational News, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Jerry Iamurri, Pastor of Bethany Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Havertown, Pa., has been named Assistant Stated Clerk for the EPC Office of the General Assembly. He fills the role being vacated by Ed McCallum, who has served in this capacity since 1998. “I am...
by EPC Admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Social Issues, Uncategorized
The Foreign Affairs committees of the United States House and Senate issued a press release on February 16 calling for the immediate release of EPC teaching Elder Andrew Brunson. The press release urging Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to grant Brunson’s...
by EPC Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
An open letter from the U.S. Senate to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey, has garnered 78 signatures from members of the Unites States Congress. The letter requests that EPC teaching elder Andrew Brunson, “an American citizen who has been unjustly detained in...
by EPC Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized, URGENT
For the first time since it launched on February 6, the White House petition to free Andrew Brunson is now indicating more than one signature. On February 14, the counter moved from 1 to 208 in the late afternoon (EST), then slowly grew in number to approximately 1200...
by EPC Admin | Feb 10, 2017 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
The EPC has received information from a reliable source that every signature on the EPC’s #ForgottenAmericanInTurkey petition is reaching a “central register” in the White House. There have been concerns that signatures were not being tallied since the counter on the...
by EPC Admin | Jan 25, 2017 | Ministers, Pastors, People, Uncategorized
Blaine Hughes, pastor of Forest Hills Presbyterian Church in Wilson, N.C., died on January 17 following a lengthy illness. He was 70. He had served as pastor of Forest Hills since 2013, when he was commissioned by the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic as a Commissioned...
