Winter 2006-2007
Christ Community (Apollo Beach, Fla.) is developing slowly but steadily. The first phase has been to meet people and establish a presence in the community. Rev. Charlie Lewis reports that they plan to begin a worship service on Sunday nights in February.
Rev. Mike Basie, formerly a church planting intern for ONA, was ordained and installed as associate pastor of Pisgah ARP Church in Gastonia, NC, Oct. 29.
Skybrook Fellowship, Asheville, NC, Rev. David Corley was ordained and commissioned as mission developer on Nov. 26. Skybrook Fellowship is a mission of First Presbytery.
Christ Fellowship, Asheville, NC, Rev. Michael Tanner Cline was ordained and installed on Nov. 5 as pastor. Christ Fellowship is a redevelopment work of First Presbytery.
Rev. Joseph S. Moore, former ONA intern, was installed as pastor of Adams Farm Community Church, Jamestown, NC, on Nov. 12.
Indian Land area, SC, people from four ARP churches met for a concert of prayer on Dec. 7 to pray for a potential mission in the Indian Land area between Lancaster, SC and Charlotte, NC. Catawba Presbytery church extension committee is seeking to develop a prayer team from Lancaster area churches, and hopefully from some other nearby churches as well, to pray for this potential mission work.
Good News Presbyterian Church, was organized as a particular congregation on Sunday, Dec. 3, 10:30 am at Tuscanora Elementary School in Frederick, MD. Rev. Peter Kemeny, the mission developer, was installed as the pastor and the first class of elders, Tom Fortney, Randy Livingston, and David Slaughter, were installed.
