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From the EPC

August 2021 EPC financial report: PMA support below projected budget

by EPC Admin | Sep 27, 2021

Contributions to Per Member Asking (PMA) received by the Office of the General Assembly in fiscal year 2022 (FY22) through August 31 total $337,934....

Bob Stauffer named National Director of Church Health

by EPC Admin | Sep 24, 2021

Bob Stauffer, Teaching Elder in the Presbytery of the Alleghenies, has been named the EPC’s National Director of Church Health. This new role at the...

Hurricane Ida relief continues; EPC leaders survey recovery efforts

by EPC Admin | Sep 22, 2021

As recovery continues in South Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Ida’s destructive wind, rain, and storm surge, EPC Stated Clerk Weaver traveled to...

Saddlerock EPC member celebrates 100th birthday with airplane…er, air flight

by EPC Admin | Sep 16, 2021

Aletha Cusick, a member of Saddlerock EPC in Wenatchee, Wash., celebrated her 100th birthday in August by taking an airplane flight with a...

Hurricane Ida leaves communities, EPC churches in state of ‘relief, recovery, rebuild’

by EPC Admin | Sep 13, 2021

by Bill Crawford Pastor, First Presbyterian Churches of Houma, La., and Thibodaux, La. It’s been an amazing, intense, depressing, and glorious two...

Prayer requested for COVID-stricken Georgia church

by EPC Admin | Sep 9, 2021

“Hear our prayers, O Lord, and raise up our brother and sister for the glory of Jesus our Lord.” Please pray for the congregation at Covenant...

Louisiana EPC church members suffer ‘total loss’ from Hurricane Ida

by EPC Admin | Sep 3, 2021

Reports of damage to EPC church buildings and congregation members’ homes resulting from Hurricane Ida continue to emerge in the days following the...

EPC Pastors report widespread damage from Hurricane Ida

by EPC Admin | Sep 1, 2021

Following Hurricane Ida’s landfall on August 29 in Louisiana and slow march northeast through Mississippi, reports are emerging about how the storm...

Spaces still available for October pastor-spouse retreat

by EPC Admin | Aug 30, 2021

Twenty spots remain available for the October pastor-spouse retreat for EPC pastors who serve in Presbyteries that are not hosting their own renewal...