Extract and link to a story in the local Greenwood, SC paper which has been running a series of articles with interviews of people upset by the recent ARP Synod decision

Members of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church commission that investigated Erskine College and Seminary and reported back to the General Synod said their recommendations were meant to strengthen and unify the school as it moves toward its future.

In June, the General Synod asked Moderator John deWitt to form a commission to investigate “whether the oversight exercised by the board of trustees and the administration of Erskine College and Seminary is in faithful accordance with the standards of the ARP Church and the synod’s previously issued directives.”

The commission delivered a preliminary report to the Erskine board of trustees Feb. 19 and a final report to a called meeting of the General Synod on March 2 in Flat Rock, N.C.

As a result of the report’s findings, and the recommendations made by the commission, the board of trustees was dissolved March 3 and a new, interim board of 16 of the former board members and 14 newly appointed members was created.

Since the report was issued there has been outcry from former board members, faculty and alumni, but members of the commission said decisive action on the part of the church was necessary to stabilize the college.