Focus Let your soul take a moment of rest as you hear God’s word. Put your busy schedule, wandering mind, stressful thoughts, and burdened heart at the feet of the cross and open up to God’s voice as the Giver of Life tends your soul. Read Psalm 56 New Revised Standard Version 2 Kings 5:1-14 […]

Focus Are you tired? Take this time to rest. Relax every part of yourself. Breathe slower. Be ready for what God has before you today. Read Psalm 56 New Revised Standard Version Psalm 56 Trust in God under Persecution To the leader: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. Of David. A Miktam, when the […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Mark 10:13-16 New Revised Standard Version Jesus Blesses Little Children 13 People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. 14 But […]

Roger Dale McElroy, 69, of Harned, Kentucky, died January 26, 2022, of COVID-19. Currently a member of Clifton Mills Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery), he was a preacher for many years and served as pastor at Payneville Community Church and Meade County General Baptist Church. Roger was an avid musician who played guitar and sang. […]

January 27, 2022 By Yonat Shimron   (RNS) — A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum earlier this month over concerns about offensive words. The 10-member board of education in McMinn County, about 60 miles south of Knoxville, voted Jan. 10 to remove […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read John 4:16-30 New Revised Standard Version 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read John 15:1-17 New Revised Standard Version Jesus the True Vine 15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every […]

Robert John Hanna, Sr., 82, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died January 18, 2022. Bob was, according to the Reverend Leslie Johnson, a “good solid member” of Eastlake Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery) in Oklahoma City. Bob joined the US Air Force in 1956 and retired from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma County in […]

Dresden Cumberland Presbyterian Church suffered significant tornado damage on December 10, 2021 (see additional coverage in our January issue.) However, an unforseen benefit is the church bell was rediscovered. Tornado damage to the church has been determined impractical to repair and the structure will be raised. The session hopes to rebuild later in 2022. Originally […]

Aurora Santana of Zamora, Colombia, in Antioquia near Medellin, has reportedly died. Aurora was a lay pastor at the Iglesia Presbiteriana Cumberland in Zamora (Emaus Presbytery). The widow of the Reverend Arturo Taborda, Aurora was a strong leader in Colombia for women´s ministries. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as it becomes […]