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Last Updated February 21, 2007
700-member Covenant
Presbyterian in Omaha Votes
Overwhelmingly to Leave PCUSA for EPC
Files
claim in court for clear title to property
Kirk of the Hills Posts
Its Legal
Documents in its Property Dispute with Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery
These may assist other churches seeking to disassociate from the PCUSA
The
Good Ship PC(USA)
Pastor Tom Gray Explains Why His Megachurch Congregation Is Jumping Ship
(11/14/06)
Presbytery of Des Moines Administrative
Commission Declares Windsor Presbyterian Church in Schism Because
Majority of Congregation Wants to Leave PCUSA
Seeks to Discover "True Church" in the Congregation; Lays in Place
Plans for "Original Jurisdiction" Takeover
AC
survey indicates PCUSA will form a "true church" of senior citizens
See earlier stories about Windsor here, here and here.
Prospect
Hill Presbytery Sues Riverside Presbyterian Church (Linn Grove, IA)
for its Property
See earlier stories about Riverside here
and here.
Read The Layman story on Prospect
Hill Presbytery's Aggression
Bayou Christian: 7
Reasons Why a New Church Paradigm is Needed
and ... The
PC(USA) -- 7 Reasons to Stay -- 7 Better Reasons to Leave
What's
Next for the New Winekins Association of Churches?
Presbytery
of Santa Barbara Calls on Kirkpatrick to Repent.
Asks non-biblical Presbyterians to leave PC(USA).
The
Balkanization of the PC(USA) Has Begun
New Wineskins Association of
Churches Votes
to Release Member Churches to EPC
Transitional Presbytery: "We Have Crossed the Rubicon"
But is the NWAC really ready to jump to the EPC as a group? -- Bayou
Christian's perspective
 |
With the New
Wineskins Convocation starting Thursday, February 8, PCUSA Stated
Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick Sends All PCUSA Pastors a Letter
to Be Read to Their Congregations. If Kirkpatrick had written what he was really thinking.... |
"Pay no attention to the congregations
leaving!" -- An
analysis by Classical Presbyterian
Why
"Division Is Wrong" by Noel K. Anderson (and why New Wineskins is
NOT division)
Talk that up to 130 congregations may "gracefully disaffiliate" this
week -- Tom
Gray, Kirk of the Hills
[SHP wonders: Will Hollywood Pres' interim, Dr. Gary Stratman,
dutifully read Kirkpatrick's subterfuge to the HPC congregation?]
Sandra
Mader Rewarded:
Re-Enlisted as Vice-Moderator of the Presbytery of the Pacific,
Scheduled to Advance to Moderator in January 2008.
Ms. Mader invited complaints against Pastors Meenan and Manock
and brought them to the COM.
From a May 2005 Layman article:
| One of the 22 people speaking on behalf of the two pastors was Jeff Traintime, coordinator of communications for Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Traintime said he once had a disagreement with Meenan and decided to attend a private meeting with Sandra Mader, the congregation's former clerk of session, and others who opposed the pastors. "Sandra told us to write a letter to presbytery because she 'had friends at the presbytery who were going to help us,'" Traintime said. Mader is vice moderator of the presbytery and moderator elect. She is also a member of the presbytery's Committee on Ministry, but Wilde [the COM chair] said she recused herself from voting on the Hollywood issues. [SHP Note: Ms. Mader had also temporarily stepped down as Vice-Moderator while the AC over Hollywood was in place.] | ||
| Ms. Mader, when she was
Clerk of Session at Hollywood, also decided to not
implement the Session's overwhelming decision to join the Confessing Church movement, according to
elders on Session at that time. This was finally corrected by
Hollywood's Session in 2005. |
2,000 Member Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church
Overwhelmingly Votes
to Leave PC(USA) to Join EPC
Presbytery of East Tennessee Plans Its Countermoves
New Wineskins Association of
Churches Publishes Strategy
to Leave PC(USA) and Affiliate with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)
Churches: Send your delegates to the New Wineskins
Convocation in Orlando Feb. 8-9, 2007
"It is time to be united with
those who confess Biblical truth through a polity that
serves Christ’'s mission, which is
the Great Commission. It is time!"
From
the Strategy: “The PCUSA has now embraced a de facto confessional
position which
encourages the worship of a god unknown in the Scriptures, a god of
man’s own making whose names appeal to the sensibilities of
contemporary philosophy, politics and a culture that asks the Church to
validate rather than redeem culture.”
Presbyterian
Outlook reports
that the PC(USA) will experience a major shift toward liberalism after
the conservative New Wineskins churches leave.
(registration required to read full article)
Os
Guiness: Why We Left the Episcopal Church
"It is a matter of faithfulness to
the lordship of Jesus, whom we worship and follow."
Is the PC(USA)
following in the American Episcopal Church's steps?
The
Truth in Love Network Comments on Trinity Synod's Stay
of Enforcement against Pittsburgh Presbytery's Stance for Biblical
Standards for Ordination:
"The fact that we have
reached the point we have, in spite of the clear
will of the large majority of ordinary Presbyterians, is an evidence of
gross corruption within the PC(USA)."
Hollywood's
Administrative Commission: "Gone But Not Forgotten"
Read the Presbytery of the Pacific's positive little blurb on
the ending of Hollywood's AC after they unjustly destroyed one of the
most
vibrant congregations in the presbytery. The SaveHollywoodPres
website promises it will not forget either.
 |
Also in the PoP's newsletter, Bel Air's Rev. Care Crawford, who as a member of the COM participated in the 2005 attack on Hollywood Pres, is rewarded by being elevated to Moderator of the PoP. |
Presbyteries
Targeted
for Upholding Ordination Standards.
"More
Light" Presbyterians file charges against Pittsburgh Presbytery for
refusing to ordain those
who
do not meet Book of Order's sexual purity requirements.
Synod of the
Trinity's Permanent Judicial Commission issues Stay
of Enforcement because it believes charges "have merit."
The enforcement of non-Biblical ideology from the top-down in
the PCUSA continues....
The 'Game Over' Scenario Begins
Bible-believing
Churches Prepare for 2007 Exodus from PC(USA).
New Wineskins Offers to Lead
and EPC Will Provide Save Haven.
Register
for the Feb. 8 & 9, 2007 New Wineskins Convocation in Orlando,
Florida.
|
This Should Be A Time for Repentance for PCUSA Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick. |
 |
The Layman calls for Kirkpatrick to fire Mark Tammen of Constitutional Services for draconian, unbiblical attacks against evangelical churches. |
 |
We wonder: Where is the repentance for the Presbytery of the Pacific's disastrous 2005 attack on Hollywood Pres, perpetrated by Linda Culbertson (Executive Presbytery of the PoP), George Wilde (Chair of the PoP COM), the largely unsaved Administrative Commission over Hollywood, and the disgruntled Hollywood Pres staff and elders who invited the presbyterror attack and unequally yoked themselves with non-believing presbytery officials? |
Blog report on "Chicago
Summit" of Presbyterian renewal leaders.
"The
renewal movement in the PC(USA), as we have known it, is over.
The season of discernment is at an end. The season of decision is
upon us all."
Windsor Presbyterian
Church (Des Moines, IA) votes to leave PCUSA with its property.
Ventura (CA) Church
Puts Forth Resolution Asking Theological Liberals to Leave the PCUSA
But is it too
late to change the PCUSA?
10/26/2006: Judge
rejects EOP's claim that civil courts cannot rule in church property
dispute.
Kirk of the
Hills' "quiet title" claim will continue to work its way through the
courts.
Read
about it in Tulsa World online.
 |
Pray for Judge Jefferson D. Sellers, who is deliberating and will decide Kirk of the Hills' claim on their property. Pray that God will give him discernment and wisdom. |
Kirk of the Hills' Day
in Court (Mon., Oct. 23)
Judge
Sellers hears EOP vs. Kirk of the Hills case.
Why
Eastern Oaklahoma Presbytery says it can take Kirk of the Hills'
property
...and
why the EOP is WRONG
Where
Are the Courageous Tall Steeple Pastors Who Will Stand Against
Denominational Misdeeds?
PCUSA
Claims to Hierarchical Government Don't Hold Water
Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick tries to create a papacy in order to
snatch property from departing congregations.
New
Wineskins issues report on church action items to be taken prior to
February 2007 Convocation.
Sends signal to Bible-believing churches: Get
ready, wait until we meet in February, then let's move together!
October
20 Update: Western North Carolina Passes Oppressive Meaure to Hold
Congregations Captive.
Presbytery
of Western North Carolina seeks to erect Berlin-like wall to
prevent congregations from leaving.
Commentary
from Pastor Tom Gray, who is leading his congregation through the
barbed wire barriers.
Eastern
Oklahoma Presbytery Tells Judge that the Civil Court Has No Right to
Rule on Kirk of the Hills.
Pastor Tom Gray asks for prayer for October 23 court date.
Why Synods and
Presbyteries Are Causing Denominational Stagnation and Decline
Full Court Presby series of blogs on why the PCUSA should eliminate
synods (Synod
1) and maybe even presbyteries (Presbytery
1, Presbytery
2, Presybtery
3, Presbytery
4).
Certainly Hollywood Pres might still be growing strong without these
two oppressive organizations.
Midwest Churches
Continue to Lead The Way Out of PCUSA:
Stow
Presbyterian (Ohio) Congregation Overwhelmingly Votes to Depart with
Property
Presbytery
of MIssissippi considers whether to uphold Book of Order property clause:
Task force recommends allowing congregations in its
jurisdication to leave PCUSA with their
property.
Ohio civil court judge
places restraining order on Eastminster
Presbytery
Prevents
presbytery officials from taking draconian "Hollywood" actions against
Hudson Presbyterian Church
Hudson Presbyterian congregation to vote Nov. 5 on leaving PCUSA and
joining
EPC
Classical Presbyterian: "Our
denomination is less Christian in its behavior towards its own than the
civil courts!"
The Evangelical
Presbyterian Church (EPC) Prepares To Receive Kirk of the Hills and
Their Pastors
Team of EPC Pastors to Meet with Kirk's Session on October 16
Eastern Oklahoma
Presbytery advertises...for a new church?
Invitation for more to join EOP's shadow congregation, which they hope
will tilt the courts to confiscate Kirk of the Hills' property.
The Pressing Need to Avoid
the Fate of Hollywood Presbyterian Church
A member of St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Newport Beach, CA)--a congregation of
4,000--shares his concerns.
Eastern Oklahoma
Presbytery attempts
to form a tiny shadow congregation as leverage to hijack the Kirk
of the Hills' massive property. Read
their letter here.
What happened at the first
worship service of the shadow congregation.
The "Old Wineskin" of
the PCUSA Starts to Disintegrate
Read Pastor
Tom Gray's Analysis
Is It Time for New Wineskins?
Legal
Update from Kirk of the Hills in Tulsa, OK
Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery Seeks to Hijack Property from Congregation
that Has Left PCUSA
PCUSA: No
longer Presbyterian, but Islamiterian.
Session
of Hudson Presbyterian Church
in Ohio
Unanimously
Recommends Leaving PCUSA
PCUSA: Is it worthy of
our love?
Special
Edition of The Layman: The
War over Property
Satire:
Five
Easy Steps for Taking Down Evangelical Churches
Echoes of the Presbytery of the Pacific's 2005 gameplan to capture
Hollywood Pres.
Clifton
Kirkpatrick dispatches squad to San Francisco to clamp
down on ministers (and their congregations' properties?) who seek to
leave the post-PUP PCUSA.
Menlo
Park Pres (over 4500 members and largest in San Francisco
Presbytery)
and their
teaching pastor, Dr.
John Ortberg, 
could be a target.
PCUSA's Mark Tammen ,
who trained the Administrative Commission that attacked Hollywood Pres,
will provide "consultation" to Synod of the Pacific.
Eastern
Oklahoma Presbytery states intent to hijack property from Kirk of
the Hills.
Court prohibits presbytery from changing locks of or appointing administrative commission over 1st Pres of Baton Rouge.
Corruption
at the Highest Level
It's put up
or shut up time for the PC(USA): Will it be a Presbyterian polity or
a tyranny?
Hollywood Pres leader,
Rev. Chuck Robertson, leads worship
in Muslim mosque.
This AC member teaches
that Christians and Muslims have the same God. Read his
prayer to Allah here.
Read
the Bible's response (speaking of Jesus).
Will the PCUSA's top leaders (e.g., Clifton Kirkpatrick) have the courage to resign?
Truth
in Love Network: "It's official . . . the Presbytery of Sacramento is in
open defiance of
the powers which the Stated
Clerk has claimed for himself and the
oxymoronic Presbyterian Hierarchy."
Read
the Layman story here.
Presbyterian Lay Committee denounces
Clifton Kirkpatrick and denominational officials for deceitful tactics.
Calls on PCUSA to follow the more excellent way of love.
Synod of
the Sun PJC Refuses to Uphold Ordination Standards: Allows
Openly Lesbian Woman to Continue to Ordination as Minister in PCUSA
This is the same synod that is seeking
to take Kirk of the Hills' property.
Clifton Kirkpatrick, chief executive of
PCUSA, clamps
down on presbyteries to prevent them from upholding ordination
standards or to allow churches to leave PCUSA with their own property.
Read Kirkpatrick's letter
to stated clerks of all presbyteries.
1st Pres of
Baton Rouge (over 1600 members and largest in its presbytery)
stakes
claim to their own property in court.
Judge issues restraining order against Presbytery of South Louisiana.
Guidelines for Protecting Your Church
Property from Your Presbytery
Presbyterian
Coalition announces plans after August conference:
1. Seek to consolidate and/or coordinate PCUSA renewal groups.
2. Prepare for either of two actions:
a) Separate from PCUSA (working with New
Wineskins)
b) Reform it from within
Presbytery of Eastern Oklahoma forms an administrative
commission over Kirk of the Hills.
July Presbytery of the Pacific Meeting: Hollywood
Administrative Commission (AC) gives an update.
Rev. Chuck Robertson (a "progressive" who
preaches Christians and Muslims worship the same God and prays to Allah)
reports
"progress."
Elder Tony de la Rosa, a practicing homosexual who leads efforts to
nominate and ordain homosexual PCUSA officers, reports on officer
nominating and ordaining at Hollywood.
PUP: Peace,
Unity and...Property?
96%
vote for Kirk of the Hills to leave PCUSA & join EPC.
But the PCUSA
still plans to sue for the property that the Kirk congregation paid
for.
Pastor Tom Gray looks
forward to freedom in ministry and exciting plans to reach more
with the Gospel.
Rev.
Mark Tammen, Constitutional
Services Director for PCUSA, says Bible-believing Presbyterians are
just plain stupid.
From
an article
on Kirk of the Hills' decision to leave the PCUSA [SHP's comments in brackets]:
"The Presbyterian Church is a very large umbrella of people,"
Tammen said. "There are people who believe more literally and that
Jesus spoke in Elizabethan English [i.e.,
those who take Scripture literally are
such Neanderthals that they probably
think Jesus spoke 16th century English instead of Aramaic],
and some people have a more
literature-type approach [i.e., we progressives know that one
cannot take the Bible at its word...one has to re-interpret it for
modern times]."
Tammen said he is not familiar with the specific issues about the Kirk
leadership's decision. [A shocking statement, especially when
Kirk of the Hills has been incredibly
open with their reasons for departure. One of their immediate
reasons was documents from Tammen's office revealing gestapo-like
tactics against Bible-believing churches that want to leave the
PCUSA, leaked by an anonymous whistle-blower.]
The brilliant
strategy of Kirk of the Hills.
Read 1st Pres Fresno's 6/22 Letter
re: Separation from PCUSA.
Pastor Russ
Westbrook of Riverside
Presbyterian Church examined by and accepted into PCA (8/24).
Congregation of Riverside Pres votes
83-0 to petition PCA for
membership (8/27).
PCUSA
Administrative Commission continues to harrass Riverside Pres:
Plans to appoint moderator of congregation and send pulpit supply
preacher. Requests to meet with Session tonight (8/29) in
Riverside Pres sanctuary, but Session will not as they are no
longer affiliated with PCUSA.
Pastor Westbrook says, "While we are
JOYFUL about our vote on
Sunday and anticipating all the Lord is going to do through our church,
we still desire your prayers as we struggle with the principalities and
powers of darkness. (Ephesians 6:12). Of course, we serve
the God who
is the head over every power and authority and know He has disarmed
them with cross! (Colossians 2:9,15)."
Administrative
Commission for Windsor
Presbyterian Church meets for first time (8/28).
Church waits to see what their actions will be.
Pastor
Terry Amann asks for prayer for repentance, renewal and reformation.
Less than 10 disgruntled Kirk of the
Hills active members show up at 8/28
presbytery meeting.
Denomination officals had promised at least 300!
Kirk of the Hills looks forward to Wednesday
(8/30) congregational meeting to affirm decision to join EPC.
Presbyterror
Attack Averted This Sunday (8/27) at Kirk of the Hills
But, "People with synod contacts have told us
that the 'big guns' from the denomination have us in their sights."
Pray that the Lord will protect His church at Kirk of the Hills and
allow them to depart from the PCUSA peacefully.
Presbytery
Plans Sunday Strike Against Kirk of the Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Strike Averted
at Last Minute?
Attack
on Kirk of the Hills Disregards Scripture: "I'm wondering, as
Presbyterians, will we stand with Jesus Christ, or
will we be standing with the OGA, the Office of Constitutional
Services, the Synod, or officials from the Presbytery of Eastern OK?
These clearly are mutually exclusive options."
They Say Nothing's Changed, But...
8/23/06--Bel Air Presbyterian Town
Meeting
about Response to Passage of PUP Report
Pastor Mark Brewer says Bel Air doesn't
want to make a move out of PCUSA alone:
"Right now there's this awkward
pause. Everybody's got their hand by their holster, but nobody's
drawing yet. And the denomination's waiting now, looking around
the room, going 'Who's going to make the first move?'"
Pastor Brewer says that in ten years he'd like to see either the
PCUSA reformed to be driven by the pure gospel,
or he'd like to belong to a new gospel-driven denomination in its
place.
Bel Air session considers redirecting $75K in denominational
giving to evangelical groups.
Bel Air plans to sponsor gathering of West Coast evangelical PCUSA
pastors.
Online recordings of Bel Air Town Hall Part
1 & Part
2
Irvine Pres Pastor Mark D. Roberts, a
proponent of remaining in the PCUSA institution, wonders
"when
my congregation will say, 'Enough is enough. Why do we continue to
be part of a denomination that consistently does things that are so
obviously divisive and unwise, if not offensive to us? When does the
cost of being part of the PCUSA overwhelm the dwindling benefits?' As a
pastor, I wonder how much longer I want to keep putting out
denominationally-set fires in an effort to protect my church from
burning down."
PCUSA Rejects
New Wineskins Call
for Moratorium on "Presbyterror" against Churches that Seek to
Leave.
Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick and Moderator Joan Gray Hypocritically
Claim GA Has No Authority to Proclaim Moratoriums (previously
Kirkpatrick had proclaimed a moratorium on overtures regarding gay
ordination).
What kind of
evangelical Presbyterian are you? Cloistered,
Institutional, or Confessional?
8/19: Presbytery of Des Moines leaves
Pastor
Terry Amann of Windsor
Presbyterian Church in place and its administrative commission does
not assume original jurisdication. AC will make recommendations
to presbytery in near future.
Presbytery seeks to avoid "presbyterror"
tactics used by Presbytery of Prospect Hill against Riverside
Presbyterian Church.
Pray that Windsor Presbyterian Church will be released graciously by
its PCUSA presbytery.
Iowa
presbytery uses similar tactics as employed at Hollywood in attempt
to gag
and isolate pastor of breakaway church.
But the session and pastor of Riverside Presbyterian Church responds
by rejecting the authority of the PCUSA's presbytery, a response
Hollywood should have made in May 2005 if it had only known how unfair
and corrupt the Presbytery of the Pacific would prove to be.
Presbyterian
Coalition Conference Stunned by Kirk of the Hills Departure from
PCUSA.
How will Louisville treat these departing brethren: with grace
or
judgement?
Riverside
Presbyterian Church (Linn Grove, IA) Seeks to Join PCA:
Pastor Russ Westbrook will appear on 8/24 before the PCA's Iowa
Presbytery to be examined for membership;
Riverside Presbyterian Church will hold a congregational meeting 8/27
to vote on sending an overture to the PCA petitioning for membership.
Pastor Westbrook asks for prayer for him and his congregation for each
of these important junctures.
Hollywood
Pres Town Hall (8/17) Addresses Passage of PUP Report: The Compromise Continues
Assoc. Pastor Chuck
Suhayda tells congregation that their are many theological debates
regarding homosexual behavior and that the GA vote was confusing.
Interim Pastor Gary
Stratman ducks challenge from floor asking if Hollywood Pres stands
for biblical sexual expression (i.e., fidelity--between a man and woman
in marriage--or chastity). He said there will be a normal
screening process for church officers, but did not categorically say
that those who are not in fidelity or chastity will be rejected as
officers.
African
bishop says Gospel
is central issue, not sex.
(Applied to ECUSA, but is relevant to PCUSA).
Coalition
Speaker Cites
Denomination's Retribution against Hollywood Pres as Example of
PC(USA)'s "Coercive Trend"
Attendees
at Presbyterian Coalition conference in Atlanta favor
separation from PC(USA)
Majority of Coalition attendees reject
the "Stay, Fight, Lose Again" strategy proposed by some.
The
Case for Gracious Separation
"The
Exodus
Has Begun...."
Kirk
of the Hills Presbyterian Church (a much larger
church than Hollywood,
and host of New Wineskins Convocation)
Disaffiliates
from PC(USA)
Tulsa, OK pastors
resign from PC(USA); church's session and trustees vote to
reorganize church and join the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)
denomination.
Kirk asks
civil court to remove Presbytery's affidavit of claim
on church
property.
Pastor Tom Gray Shares
His Heart.
"We
have not left the PCUSA, the PCUSA left us!"
THE PERSECUTION BEGINS: Presbytery of Prospect Hill Places Breakaway Church Pastor on Administrative Leave & Appoints Administrative Commission with Original Jurisdication over Riverside Presbyterian Church at A Called Meeting of Presbytery on August 14. The Book of Order Was Violated Numerous Times During the Called Meeting, Especially the Act to Place Pastor Westbrook on Administrative Leave, which Was Not on the Agenda of the Called Meeting. Administrative Commission Announces Plans to Seize Church Property, Replace Session, and Remove Pastor Westbrook. Congregation Rallies Unanimously around Their Pastor and Remains Undeterred to Break Off from the Apostate PC(USA) and Faithfully Proclaim Christ.
A second Iowa congregation,
Windsor Presbyterian Church, votes to leave the PC(USA).
The very liberal Presbytery of Des Moines calls emergency meeting for
August 19. An administrative commission lies in wait.
Contact
Windsor Presbyterian Church.
Presbytery of Des Moines leadership contact
info.
The Rise of a New Presbyterian Papacy: Louisville Issues Advisory Opinion #19 Declaring Presbyteries Must Take Over Churches that Attempt to Leave the Denomination...And If They Don't, Then Their Synod Will Take Over the Presbytery!
The Scandal of the Decade: The
Louisville Papers
"The
PUP Report, with all of the grand language about forbearance and
conversation means nothing. The Institution and its assets are
everything.
Here's
the basic message of the Louisville Papers: 'If a church decides it
must leave our fold, then squash them in civil
court. Go in with guns blazing and take their property, label them
schismatics and troublemakers. Do what it takes to win.' This is not
the path of Jesus. This is the tactic of Ahab."
In Their Own Words:
(1) Secret Plans
Made Prior to 2006 GA to Secure Church Property;
(2) Louisville Selectively Targets Biblical Churches Instead of, for
Instance, GLBT-ordaining Churches
Double Standards
"show
the greed of our leadership. They want us
to accept decisions that aren’t biblical but they don’t want to accept
session decisions that might hurt their pocketbook."
PC(USA) Issues Hardball Stategies
Surely, those at denominational headquarters are not truly our brothers
and sisters in Christ Jesus as they fail to exhibit any of the fruit
of the Spirit.
Iowa Presbytery Seeks to
Appoint an AC to "Destroy" Bible-believing Congregation Asking to Leave
PC(USA)
The Presbytery of Prospect Hill seeks to remove the church's
pastor and appoint an AC to control the church's finances, property and
personnel. Sound familiar?
Will this be the national
pattern: To destroy the church to "save" the presbytery?
Contact the presbytery staff,
or contact its moderator, Richard
Francis.
An
open letter to Prospect Hill Moderator Rev. Richard Francis:
"You
are the cad who breaks the faith and the ordination vows here, not the
Riverside Presbyterian Church and its session!"
To
contact Riverside Presbyterian Church and offer encouragement and
support, click here.
Shaming Jesus: The Presbyterian
Persecution Begins
2006 New Wineskins Action Plan
Already
Taken Prisoner, HPC Plans To Discuss General Assembly Actions
Town Hall Meeting Called for Thursday, August 17 at 7 PM
Bel Air Presbyterian Church Plans Its Next Steps: "The passing of the PUP report caused many of us to fear that we have torn at the heart of being a constitutional, connectional, and confessional church. If every Presbytery can choose to enforce its own interpretation of standards, what are the standards for?"
"What
is essential now is courage."
Why
Many PCUSA Pastors and Churches Will Not Leave the Apostate PCUSA: Comfort
Pastors
Attending New Wineskins Fear Their Ordination Will Be Stripped and
Property Confiscated...Just for Attending!
January
11, 2007: 273 days
have
passed since the false statements about Dr.
Manock on HPC's
website were
brought
to HPC's attention, yet no correction has been made. The AC's
Rev. Hughes
promised to
"forward
it to the appropriate bodies for response," but no
response has been made to date.
Wrap-up
Post from New Wineskins: "The PCUSA does not
look, or sound, like a
REPORTS
FROM 2006 NEW WINESKINS INITIATIVE (in order): 1,
2,
3,
4
Blog by the pastor of
Kirk of the Hills Church, host of 2006 New Wineskins Initiative
Seminary
Professor Robert Gagnon at NWI: "Don't fear human beings who can only kill
you. You must fear God, who can send your soul to hell." Presbyterians
who are committed to God's Word should make preparations for separation.
New
Wineskins to Consider Withdrawing
Its Congregations from PCUSA.
"'Stay/Fight/Win'
is now a lose/lose proposition." A Presbyterian pastor looks
forward to the New Winekins
convention in Tulsa, OK (July 19-21).
The Presbterian Lay
Committee isses a response
to the 2006 GA: "Reluctantly,
and with deep sorrow, we conclude that current renewal efforts within
the Presbyterian Church (USA) are not capable of reversing the
denomination's plunge into apostasy. Continuing the remedial course
that our renewal organizations have pursued for more than four decades
will not save this ecclesiastical body; for its sin is so systemic as
to render it impervious to change from within. This institution begs
not for improvement, but for Reformation and transformation."
Presbytery's COM has
approved a new
interim pastor for HPC.
Dr.
Gary Stratman joined Bel Air's Dr. Mark
Brewer in signing statement
against PUP: "While
longing to retain our unity, we are ready for a redefinition of that
unity and the structural realities that hold us together. God help us."
Rumor Denied:
The Presbytery AC's Tony de la Rosa, an openly gay Presbyterian elder,
has not become a member of Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Some
session members are relieved. But the real question is: What will prevent this advocate of
anti-biblical sexuality from becoming a member of HPC?
Elder Tony de la Rosa is in control of HPC's session.
The Presbytery of the Pacific supports homosexual acts as a civil
rights issue
and casts Scripture as a man-made document.
Can HPC even choose to follow God instead of man after it invited the
Presbytery wolves to oversee the flock?
Only Jesus can save Hollywood Pres now, if they will allow
Him. (Luke
5:31,32)
Presbyterian
pastor analyzes six possible responses to the PUP passage: Submit,
Starve
the Bureaucracy, Split
to an existing denomination, Split
to a new denomination, Become
non-denominational, or The
Pastor Leaves with a Portion of His/Her Flock.
General
Assembly of PC(USA) Votes to Allow Presbyteries
to
Ordain Practicing Homosexuals.
Peace,
Unity & Purity (PUP) Report Recommendation #5 Passes General
Assembly.
From
the Truth in Love Network:
"The
vote was 57% to 43%. A commissioner asked the moderator about
the proper procedure to register dissent. Now the assembly is
celebrating the work of the PUP Task force -- calling it a sacred gift
and comparing it to the water that was brought to David from the well
of Bethlehem. The assertion was made that Jesus would have accepted a
gift of this kind.
A former moderator of the PC(USA) who I will not name was heard to say that when it passes, about 200 churches will leave the denomination, and we’ll all be better off."
Read
The Layman Online article on the passing of the PUP Report.
San Diego and Santa Barbara Presbyteries to consider whether to leave
PC(USA).
New Wineskins Initiative to
meet July 19-22 to Consider Starting New Denominational Structure for
Churches Leaving PC(USA).
Los Ranchos Presbytery (Orange County) predicts that many thousands of
Presbyterians and a great many churches will now leave the PC(USA).
Former
HPC Pastor Mark D. Roberts calls passage of PUP Report "the
beginning of the end
of the PCUSA."
A
Presbyterian pastor hears God call him to leave
the PCUSA.
Presbyterians
for Renewal Issues Statement.
Declares "This
recent decision marks a profound deviation from biblical
requirements, and we cannot accept, support, or tolerate it. We will
take the steps necessary to be faithful to God and to those God calls
us to serve."
Hollywood
Pres remains in the tight grip of the Presbytery of the
Pacific and its Administrative Commission, both of which strongly favor
homosexual ordination. Now that the
denomination has become officially unbiblical, how can Hollywood Pres
muster the strength to break away from the PC(USA) and the
gay-ordaining Presbytery of the Pacific?
"The
Word Is Out - Sundays" Unfurls New Name: "Church for the Nations"
Read the story
in the Los Angeles Daily News
Shame
on HPC's leadership: Their latest Renewal
Bulletin attempts to defame Dr. Alan Meenan with spurious and
trumped up
charges. These were produced by the same PIC
that had its charges against Dr. Manock thrown out by the PJC.
The PIC's charges were dismissed
for lack of merit because of bias and the fact their procedures
lacked due process and fundamental fairness. We do not doubt the
PJC would have thrown out the charges against Dr. Meenan as well for
the same reason (lack of merit), if he had elected to remain in the
PC(USA).
Dr.
Alan Meenan forced to renounce membership in the
PC(USA).
Read his letter to Presbytery
detailing his situation.
Read his letter renouncing
the PC(USA).
Excerpt: "My
heart also grieves for the church that I served in Hollywood whose
members have been rendered a heavy blow.
While real financial issues existed -
which issues we were addressing - I am persuaded that the crisis that
presently
exists there is directly attributable
to the heavy-handed inappropriateness of the Presbytery’'s actions. The
drastic
and precipitous decline of that
congregation is a matter the Presbytery though its COM and AC has
brought upon
itself when it chose not to listen to
the vast majority of its parishioners! In all, the debacle
affected by the
Presbytery has caused irreparable
damage to many souls in Christ's Kingdom and, one day, there will be
those who
will have to give an account of their
actions."
Read
The
Layman story.
Read the Truth
in Love Network's commentary.
Read
the commentary
from Amarillo Globe News (registration requred)
Read
Betty
Zaun's Letter to The Layman.
After
months veiled with secrecy and hints of nefarious deeds,
you can finally read the misguided and petty charges against Dr. David
Manock here.
(Adobe Acrobat Required. Download it here.)
These charges show how some HPC elders resented Dr.
Manock's request that they be more than just a school board, but be
"spiritual elders" after the Biblical mandate, responsible for praying
for and ministering to the church.
The Presbytery's Investigative Committee, headed by Rev. Leslie
Atkinson and including Elder Elizabeth Evans (Westwood Pres.) and Elder
Youngman Kwan (Bel Air Pres.), recommended that the charges be filed in
Presbytery court
even when it was obvious that the charges were without merit or trivial.
Read
The Layman's story about the charges against Dr. Manock.
Read
The Layman's story about the charges against both Dr. Meenan & Dr.
Manock.
Dr.
Manock's new e-mail address: dmanock@comcast.net
The
Word Is Out ... on Sundays!
10:00 a.m. at the Beverly Garland Holiday
Inn in North Hollywood (free
validated parking)
Preaching from Dr. Alan Meenan with a
New Series on the Acts of the Apostles
Contemporary Worship
Home Bible Study Groups
Children's Program from Birth thru
High School
See the announcement
postcard here.
Visit The Word Is Out
website for more information.
Hollywood
Pres Session Explores How to Respond to Dr. Meenan's New Church
Will they
rejoice in the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Dr.
Meenan Responds to Actions of PoP in Layman Article
A
Warning Letter to Congregations that Believe They Are Strong
by Dr. Frankie Cotton
Now 10 Session elders have resigned since
the AC took over HPC.
Read former Elder Bella Thomasson's resignation letter here.
We
will start to post resignation
letters here (updated
01/13/2006)
as a
testimony to what has happened.
You may e-mail us a copy of yours here.
Read
the Layman's print article about the forced resignations.
December
11: Congregation Votes to Approve Severance and Accept Drs. Meenan and
Manock's Resignations.
After 7 months since the Administrative Commission (AC) was illegally
appointed and the AC illegally removed the pastors, after the Session
and congregation of HPC were completely worn down by the AC, after the
AC scrupulously prevented any efforts toward reconciliation,
after attendance dropped approximately 40%, the pastors saw there was
no hope for return and sought to resume their ministries in a different
venue.
Drs. Meenan and Manock offered their resignations and asked the
congregation to accept them.
Read
Dr. Meenan's Statement
at the Dec. 11 Congregational Meeting
Read
Dr. Manock's Statement
at the Dec. 11 Congregational Meeting
Keep tuned to this website for updates
on the future ministries of Dr. Alan Meenan and Dr. David Manock.
Read
The Layman's article here.
Visit
the new The Word Is Out
website here.
More Letters
to The Layman
Oct.
9 Congregational Meeting Documents
Read Letters
to the Layman Describing the Meeting
"So That Both Sides Might Be Heard" FAQ's
Ecclesia: The Gathering Field
(the new church that used to be the C.U.E. service)
Visit
Dr. David
Manock's New Website: The Titus
Walk
Listen to or read
Dr. Meenan's last sermon at HPC.
More of Dr. Meenan's sermons here.
Listen
to Dr. Manock's last sermon at HPC.
Since the
Administrative Commission won't let us e-mail, phone or talk to our
pastors,
we thought some of you might like to post open letters to them on this
website.
Just click here
to e-mail us an open letter to Pastors Meenan and Manock and--if it
is
appropriate--we'll post it!
Read the letters
to date. Send
in your own!
