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	Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)
		Presbyterians are part of the Calvinist theological tradition, which includes an emphasis upon predestination as found in the theology of John Calvin, a sixteenth-century French theologian who believed that God elects those who are "predestined" to salvation and that this election is not influenced by human efforts.
		Marys is one of the oldest churches in Georgia.
		Most Presbyterian churches, in Georgia and nationally, were Old School churches, which strove to maintain the denomination's emphasis on Calvinist doctrine and to resist the New School's emphasis on such societal reform efforts as temperance and abolition.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-1565 (1054 words)

	Appendix
		The Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions is not an organization in the Presbytery of Philadelphia, or in the Synod of Pennsylvania, or in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The term "Presbyterian" refers to church polity and, by extension, to doctrine.
		It is significant that the Scottish and the Australian Presbyterian churches limit the voting and office holding membership of the Presbyteries to the pastors of its churches and those executives, and teachers of its accredited Theological Colleges, whom the General Assembly appoints as voting members in the Presbyteries.
		The defendant church bearing the name "Presbyterian Church of America" has adopted a name so similar to that of the plaintiff as to be confusing and thereby hamper and impair the work of the plaintiff church, interfere with its orderly procedure and disturb the sources of support in its field of activity.
	www.americanpresbyterianchurch.org /appendix.htm (7366 words)

	Presbyterian Church in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Presbyterian Church in the United States was the Southern branch of Presbyterianism in America.
		This group split from the Northern body of Presbyterianism largely over the issue of slavery in 1861 and was known during the American Civil War as the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.
		The Presbyterian Church in America was formed in 1973 by congregations which had left the PCUS, criticising it for "[a] long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_the_United_States (232 words)

	Presbyterian churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Presbyterian denominations typically have four levels of authority – individual congregations, presbyteries, synods and a general assembly.
		The principal body in the North was the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
		The Presbyterian Church in the United States was the principal Southern body.
	www.stthomas.edu /jour/apstyle/Presbyterian_churches.html (341 words)

	Presbyterianism, Presbyterian
		The largest Presbyterian body in the United States is the 3 million - member Presbyterian Church, formed in 1983 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the (Southern) Presbyterian Church in the United States.
		Presbyterianism emerged in the 16th century Reformation as an effort by Protestant reformers to recapture the form as well as the message of the New Testament church.
		The minister (or teaching elder), who is called by the local church and who usually serves as moderator of the session, is, however, ordained and disciplined by the next level of church organization, the presbytery (or classis), which administers groups of churches in one area.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/presbyte.htm (722 words)

	Auburn Affirmation
		We, the undersigned, Ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, feel bound, in view of certain actions of the General Assembly of 1923 and of persistent attempts to divide the church and abridge its freedom, to express our convictions in matters pertaining thereto.
		This reunion was opposed by certain members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, on the ground that the two churches were not at one in doctrine; yet it was consummated.
		But we are united in believing that these are not the only theories allowed by the Scriptures and our standards as explanations of these facts and doctrines of our religion, and that all who hold to these facts and doctrines, whatever theories they may employ to explain them, are worthy of all confidence and fellowship.
	www.opc.org /cce/AuburnAf.html (1330 words)

	Government
		Fort Hill Presbyterian Church is a member of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
		In 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (the Northern Presbyterian Church) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the Southern Presbyterian Church) voted to reunite and become the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
		The local church is governed by the "Session" which is made up of all our ministers and ruling Elders elected by the local congregation.
	www.forthillchurch.org /Government/government.html (233 words)

	PHS - Brief History of Presbyterian Church
		Presbyterianism in a wide sense is the system of church government by representative assemblies called presbyteries, in opposition to government by bishops (episcopal system), or by congregations (congregationalism).
		In its strict sense, Presbyterianism is the name given to one of the groups of ecclesiastical bodies that represent the features of Protestantism emphasized by French lawyer John Calvin (1509-1564), whose writings crystallized much of the Reformed thinking that came before him.
		Presbyterians were only one of the reformed denominations that dominated American colonial life at the time of the Revolutionary War.
	history.pcusa.org /pres_hist/briefhist.html (714 words)

	Presbyterian and Reformed Churches
		The ARP Church is the oldest Presbyterian denomination in America, being formed in 1785 as a merger of Seceder and Covenanter churches.
		Evangelical breakaway from the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1981) The EPC holds to conservative Reformed doctrine, but allows the ordination of women as elders and deacons and also is more tolerant of the charismatic movement than most others.
		A merger of the Associate and northern Associate Reformed Churches (1858), this was a conservative Reformed witness until its union with the northern PCUSA in 1958 and it lost its distinctives.
	www.tateville.com /churches.html (1216 words)

	WPCUS
		In 1788, as the Presbyterian Church in the United States was constituted, constitutional changes were made in the Directory for the Public Worship of God.
		On January 13-14, 2006, the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States (WPCUS) was constituted by ministers of the gospel with the assistance of elder commissioners to roll back all the amendments to the Westminster Standards and restore the directories in worship and government to the Constitution of the Church.
		The ministers and elders have signed vows with full subscription to the whole doctrine; hence, the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States is a continuing church with the Westminster Standards, as originally adopted in the Church of Scotland (1645-48) and the colonies of North America (1716).
	www.wpcus.org (271 words)

	Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States
		The Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States (RPCUS) was born in 1983 out of a continuing struggle to uphold the all-embracing, inerrant authority of the Bible as the Word of God, to maintain the purity of the church, and to proclaim the truth of the Reformed faith "in all openness unhindered."
		The church is a ministry of redemption, worship, edification, mercy, and evangelism.
		The family is the first church and state of the child, rearing them in terms of the law and grace of God.
	www.rpcus.com /?id=ChurchBlazingwithVision (2363 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		The United Church of Christ, in its present composition, is the result of decades of ecumenical endeavor.
		In 1831, the United States Brethren voted to allow Lydia Sexton to be a pulpit speaker, although it was not until 1894 that the Brethren ordained the first woman minister.(9) Anna Howard Shaw, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, was granted a local preacher's license by a Methodist congregation.
		The Presbyterian Church in the United States has suffered a separation of a small number of churches in part because the congregations now organized as the Presbyterian Church in America disagree with the denominations from which they separated on the ordination question.
	www.womenpriests.org /classic/smylie.asp (5492 words)

	New Horizons
		The Presbyterian Church in America was born in 1973, but the rationale for its founding dated back more than a hundred years.
		On December 4, 1861, commissioners from Southern presbyteries met in Augusta, Georgia, to renounce the jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School) and to form the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.
		In the minds of Southern Presbyterians, this was a violation of the spirituality of the church by an unwarranted engagement in partisan politics.
	www.opc.org /nh.html?article_id=65 (1329 words)

	Shawhan Presbyterian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Presbyterian Church Organization in later years referred to the small rural churches as "Chapels" and the Shawhan church was frequently called the "David Chapel".
		Henry David a staunch Presbyterian was born in Virginia, December 24, 1777, and died in Bourbon county, Kentucky, August 30, 1862.
		The church has never had an installed pastor but the pastors of the Mt. Pleasant, Paris and Millersburg churches have in the main been the stated supplies of the church.
	www.shawhan.com /shawhanchurch.html (1350 words)

	Presbyterian Church in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It separated from the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern) in opposition to the long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture.
		The Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, had been formed in 1965 by a merger of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, General Synod.
		The PCA is one of the faster growing denominations in the United States, with over 1400 churches and missions throughout the USA and Canada.
	www.chaplaincare.navy.mil /Christian_PresbytCinA.htm (936 words)

	Providence PCA Church Plant- Fayetteville, NC
		The Church of Rome, considered in its relations to God and to the eternal destinies of mankind, is but a congeries and aggregation of a multitude of putrid parts, kept together by the pressure of outside hoops and bands.
		But such the Presbyterian Church can never be; she must be one in life, one in principle, one in aim, as well as one in external organization.
		In a particular church, for example, there may be many who, in their private devotions, assume a standing posture; more are in the habit of kneeling; some few, perhaps, as Richard Cecil tells us was once his practice, walk backwards and forwards while they pray.
	www.providencepca.com /essays/peckliturgies.html (2196 words)

	Westminster Presbyterian Church
		In the southern colonies, the young Presbyterian clergyman, Samuel Davies, combined solid patriotism with evangelical fervor and preached the cause of independence as well as the love of Christ. Before he died at age 38, he had established several churches, influenced Patrick Henry, formed the first southern Presbytery, and served as a college president.
		In 1789, shortly after the formation of the new United State of America, several American Presbyteries and Synods came together for the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. This is the point in time from which today’s Presbyterian Church (USA) dates its existence as a national church.
		The Session is the governing body of each local or “particular” church. The Session is moderated by the minister, who serves with elders elected by the congregation. The Session is responsible for the mission and government of the particular church.
	www.wpc-mpls.org /tobepresbyterian.asp (989 words)

	A Brief History of Union Presbyterian Church
		The first need of the new church was a sanctuary, and because of the faithfulness of the people and other interested people the present sanctuary was built in the winter of 1915 and early part of 1916.
		During his ministry the manse of the church was built at the cost of $3,000.
		During the years 1914 until 1963 the church was a United Presbyterian Church, and the ministers were hard to find as we were the extreme southern portion of that church.
	www.unionms.com /church/presbyterian.htm (821 words)

	Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China
		The Western Foreign Missionary Society of the United States was organized in November 1831 by the Synod at Pittsburgh.
		In 1959 the PN merged with the United Presbyterian Church of North America to form the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, The Commission of Ecumenical Mission and Relations.
		In 1925 the churches connected with 26 of the American Presbyterians, North, stations became affiliated with the Church of Christ in China; the churches connected with five stations in Shandong were members of the Presbyterian Church in China.
	ricci.rt.usfca.edu /institution/view.aspx?institutionID=167 (499 words)

	Presbyterian Church (USA) News - Presbyweb - Auburn Affirmation
		By its law and its history, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of American safeguards the liberty of thought and teaching of its ministers.
		At their ordinations they "receive and adopt the confession of Faith of this Church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures." This the church has always esteemed a sufficient doctrinal subscription for its ministers.
		Its authors would not allow this to church councils, their own included: "All synods or councils since the apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err, and many have erred; therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith or practice, but to be used as a help in both" (Conf.
	www.presbyweb.com /Documents/AuburnAffirmation.htm (1497 words)

	The Covenant with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
		In 1984, the Men of the Church Council and the United Presbyterian Men merged into a new National Council of Presbyterian Men, with each synod sending a representative to serve on the National Council and the National Board.
		The National Council of Presbyterian Men continues to hold annual Council meetings, plan and coordinate men's assemblies, assist with the development of resources for men's ministries, and promote the use of denominational resources for men's ministry for use by all men's groups throughout the Presbyterian Church (USA).
		In 2002 the National Council of Presbyterian Men, Inc. were incorporated in the state of Wisconsin and received a federal tax exemption under section 501(c) (3) from the IRS.
	www.presbyterianmen.org /who_we_are/covenant.htm (1081 words)

	Cityview Presbyterian Church in Chicago
		As one communion in the worldwide church, the Presbyterian Church in America exists to glorify God by extending the kingdom of Jesus Christ over all individual lives through all areas of society and in all nations and cultures.
		In addition to church planting, Mission to North America coordinates resources for the revitalization of PCA churches already established, and provides leadership and endorsement for chaplains who serve under the auspices of the PCA, serving United States Armed Forces as well as other institutions.
		From the Suburbs to the City: While the PCA is largely a suburban church, the Lord is blessing in establishing new churches in the city.
	www.cityviewchicago.org /pca.asp (1942 words)

	St. James Presbyterian Church, Chicago -- History
		In 1958, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America merged with the United Presbyterian Church of North America becoming the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. St. James United Presbyterian Church
		With the appointment of Robert Holloway in September of 1959, the church began to be served by Presbyterian pastors.
		In 1983, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA) merged with the Presbyterian Church in the United States becoming the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
	www.stjameschicago.org /history.htm (656 words)

	home - Garden City Presbyterian Church
		Garden City Presbyterian Church is a member congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States.
		Our denomination was founded in 1983 with the reunion of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the "northern" church) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the "southern" church), a split which had dated back to the Civil War.
		In November 2005, the congregations of GCPC and the First Presbyterian Church of Wayne, Michigan were united in faith. Our church families are blended to provide a greater worship experience for everyone. We are blessed to have these special people as part of our future.
	www.gardencitypresbyterian.org (310 words)

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		The Waldensian Presbyterian Church was founded in 1893 when a small group of Waldensians from the Cottian Alps in Italy founded the town of Valdese.
		On July 9, 1895, the Waldensian Evangelical Church of Valdese became part of the Presbytery of Concord of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
		Since 1893, it has been part of the Presbyterian Church USA and is now a member of the Presbytery of Western North Carolina.
	www.waldensianpresbyterian.com (184 words)

	"To lay anew the foundations of a Mighty Church": Robert Franklin Bunting Reports the First and Second ...
		The first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States was held at Augusta, Georgia, 5 December 1861, in the church of Joseph Ruggles Wilson.
		Although, under his guidance, the Presbyterian Church of San Antonio had, by 1860, grown to be the largest Presbyterian congregation in the state, Bunting's salary never exceeded $965, and in the fall of 1861, "after much prayer for direction," he requested that he be released from his contract.
		Francis McFarland (1788-1871), a graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary, was the commissioner from the Lexington Presbytery, Synod of Virginia.
	jsr.as.wvu.edu /2003/Cutrer.htm (4425 words)

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