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Oct 9, 20245 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Oct 9, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Oct 9, 20245 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Aug 10, 20245 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Aug 3, 20243 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Jul 27, 20245 min read
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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lydiaberglar
May 22, 20245 min read
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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lydiaberglar
May 22, 20245 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Feb 10, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Feb 10, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Jan 6, 20244 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Sep 16, 20236 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Sep 16, 20235 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Sep 16, 20234 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Jul 29, 20234 min read
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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lydiaberglar
Jul 29, 20234 min read
The Story of Christ Church
This month marks two years that Christ Church Presbyterian has been meeting for Sunday morning worship. The plant was started by Covenant...
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lydiaberglar
Jul 29, 20233 min read
Moving from the Mountain to Mosaic
Until joining Mosaic, Corby served as associate pastor at Rock Creek Fellowship on Lookout Mountain, GA. Corby and his wife, Rachel, have...
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