PCA Retirement & Benefits, Inc. (RBI), the retirement agency of the Presbyterian Church in America, has hired a new retirement plan record keeper, Northwest Plan Services (NWPS). Due to this vendor change, certain addresses and account login procedures will change. Further information about this change will be communicated over the next few months through web... Continue Reading

Recent Ministerial changes in Houston Metro Presbytery, PCA include Bill Combs, Robert Cook, Dennis Hermerding, Kyle Bobos, and Nat Davidson. TE Bill Combs has retired after serving 23 years as the pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Webster, Texas. Combs, a 1970 graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary (back in the day when it was only... Continue Reading

The Sun-Sentinel reported the following on September 2, 2009: FORT LAUDERDALE – Dissident members of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church have taken the next step in their effort to oust Pastor Tullian Tchividjian, turning in petitions to call a congregational vote. Go here to read article. [Editor’s note: the original URL (link) referenced in this article... Continue Reading

MIAMI (AP) — Descendants of two of the country’s most influential evangelical leaders — Billy Graham and the late D. James Kennedy — are feuding over control of a Florida megachurch that is a bedrock of the religious right. Under the leadership of Kennedy, the former pastor who died in 2007, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church... Continue Reading

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Orlando, Florida, June 16-18, 2009, hosted by Central Florida Presbytery. A total of 1,081 commissioners attended, of which 819 were Teaching Elders and 262 were Ruling Elders, representing 620 churches. The Assembly includes not only annual reports from the ten Committees and Agencies, election... Continue Reading

Sometimes God has to uproot before he brings growth. On September 1, 2007, Faith Presbyterian PCA made a move from Warren, Minn., to the city of Grand Forks, becoming the only PCA congregation in North Dakota. Since that time, the Lord has enabled them to reach new people, add new members, and call the church’s... Continue Reading

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the merger of two local Pittsburgh area churches, one PCA and one OPC. The article begins: Presbyterian congregation lost its building to a fire two years ago. At about that time, another congregation had endured splits and lost its entire pastoral leadership. Neither church initially was looking for changes to its... Continue Reading

Mr. Wayne Sparkman, director of the PCAHistorical Center, has recently begun two new web logs that should be of interest to those interested in the history the Presbyterian Church in America and related historical events. The first is http://pcahistory.wordpress.com/, set up specifically to provide a convenient place for the founding fathers and interested others to... Continue Reading

Metokos Ministries, affiliated with Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship, is offering a drawing open to representatives attending the 37th PCA General Assembly in Orlandoo, Fla. – ruling and/or teaching elders – of smaller churches. First prize is a free first-night room at the Clarion Hotel Main Gate, a three star property just 4 miles from the conference... Continue Reading

The 37th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America will be held June 16-19, 2009, in OrlandoFlorida. The following overtures have been sent from Presbyteries; they can be read at PCA GA Overtures. Overture 1 from Missouri Presbytery is entitled “Amend BCO 37-7″ (no text is available for the overture yet), which is the... Continue Reading