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Reminded of Our Vision in the Gospel: Redeemer Athens Update
Curt and Suzi Stapleton have been in Athens, TN since 2021, planting Redeemer Athens. The church started in 2022, and in its second full...
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Feb 224 min read
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A Closer Look At Our Five-Year Plan
As you may recall from an email this past December, the Tennessee Valley Presbytery created a five-year plan to carry us forward to 2030....
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Feb 224 min read
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Building Expansion, Spiritual Growth, and Cultural Education Continues at Woodlands Gathering
As the Woodlands Gathering community grows, the church is improving their building and continues to offer cultural education...
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Oct 9, 20245 min read
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Like Adopting a Teen: Erik McDaniel Talks Church Revitalization
Erik and Maggie McDaniel’s family of six children includes one they adopted as an infant, three siblings they adopted as kids, and...
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Oct 9, 20244 min read
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Karen Ellis Talks Persecution, Trials, and Christian Endurance
Karen and Carl Ellis with students at the Edmiston Center Karen Ellis, a student and professor of Christian Endurance Studies, is the...
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Oct 9, 20245 min read
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Tennessee Valley Presbytery Leaders Ponder "The Great Dechurching"
“For the first time in eight decades that Gallup has tracked American religious membership, more adults in the United States do not...
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Aug 10, 20245 min read
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Retreat Offered Rest and Encouragement to Small Town/Rural Pastors
This July, Corey Pelton hosted Rural Church Development’s first Small Town Pastor’s Retreat for pastors who are ministering in small...
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Aug 3, 20243 min read
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Coaching, MNA, and TVP
“A good coach is trained to come alongside rather than tell you how to do things. Ministry is demanding and exhausting, but a good coach..."
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Jul 27, 20245 min read
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Evangelistically Fruitful Churches in the PCA
David Gentino visited the Tennessee Valley Presbytyery’s Church Planting Network gathering on April 30th to talk about evangelistically...
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May 22, 20245 min read
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Rural Church Development News: Podcasting Adventures, Adopting Rural Towns, and More
Coinciding with his unconventional ministry setup, Corey Pelton, leader of Rural Church Development (RCD) in north Georgia, likes to...
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May 22, 20245 min read
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TVP’s Mission to North America Committee Welcomes New Members
Each presbytery has a committee of local leaders who report to Mission to North America (MNA). The Tennessee Valley Presbytery designated...
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Apr 6, 20244 min read
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One Water, Many Bowls: Tony Thomas Discusses Cross-Cultural Ministry with Church Planters
“We are offering Christianity in a Western cup and India rejects it. But when we offer the water of life in an Eastern bowl, then our...
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Apr 6, 20244 min read
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Christ Covenant Knoxville’s Church Planting Residency
Seth Hammond, lead pastor at Christ Covenant PCA in Knoxville, is leading a group of men through NXTGEN Pastor’s cohort model as part of...
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Apr 6, 20244 min read
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Parakaleo: Supporting the Women and Wives of Church Planting
par-ak-al-eh'-o para: beside/alongside kaleo: call In our December email series, we briefly touched on the Tennessee Valley Presbytery’s...
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Feb 10, 20244 min read
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Manipulation vs. Ministry: Jim Coffield Speaks into Emotional Intelligence for Church Planters
At the end of January, Jim Coffield joined our presbytery’s Church Planting Network quarterly gathering to discuss emotional intelligence...
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Feb 10, 20244 min read
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Support the TVP's Church Planting Network
Because of faithful donors like you, our presbytery is able to support and equip our pastors for long-term health in ministry. Through...
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Jan 6, 20244 min read
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Learning from the Locals
In his ministry to the rural areas and small towns of North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee, Corey Pelton has practiced learning about...
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Sep 16, 20236 min read
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The PCA’s Church Planting Strategy
At our presbytery’s August Church Planting Network Gathering, Chris Vogel spoke about national trends in church openings and closings and...
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Sep 16, 20235 min read
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New Members, Milestones, and Maturity at Redeemer Athens
I knew I needed to just preach the Bible, because people didn’t want to read and discuss other books about the Bible - they wanted...
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Sep 16, 20234 min read
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Meet Tyler Majors: Pastoral Intern at Lakeway Presbyterian
This June, Tyler Majors became Lakeway Presbyterian’s first pastoral intern. The Morristown, TN church is led by planting pastor Chris...
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Jul 29, 20234 min read
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