Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

Unlike other traditions, Anglicanism has never been governed by a magisterium nor by appeal to one founding theologian, nor by an extra-credal summary of doctrine ( such as the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterian Church ).

For many years he was a member of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, pastored from 1905 to 1926 by Social Gospel exponent Henry Sloane Coffin, while his wife and daughter belonged to the Brick Presbyterian Church.

" ( Hilton does mention that the Church of Scotland's Presbyterian polity does not include bishops or archbishops.

Liturgical or Mainline Protestant communities ( e. g. Presbyterian, Congregationalist / United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, etc.

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

In practice, " extraordinary " circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not permitted to be deployed to Episcopal Churches ( they can, however, serve in Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church in America, and Moravian Church congregations, as the ELCA is in full communion with these denominations ).

In the Church of Scotland, which has a Presbyterian church structure, the word " bishop " refers to an ordained person, usually a normal parish minister, who has temporary oversight of a trainee minister.

In the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the term bishop is an expressive name for a Minister of Word and Sacrament who serves a congregation and exercises " the oversight of the flock of Christ.

Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

In December 1984, the Taiwan Aboriginal People's Movement was launched when a group of aboriginal political activists, aided by the progressive Presbyterian Church in Taiwan ( PCT ), established the Alliance of Taiwan Aborigines ( ATA, or yuan chuan hui ) to highlight the problems experienced by indigenous communities all over Taiwan, including: prostitution, economic disparity, land rights and official discrimination in the form of naming rights (; ; ).

* James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior ( 1876 – 1951 ), his son, English Presbyterian medical missionary to Taiwan and China

* Pe ̍ h-oē-jī ( POJ ), once the de facto official script of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan ( since the late 19th century ).

* Presbyterian Church in Taiwan

They are an essential part of the traditional religion of the indigenous people of Taiwan, who converted to Christianity about fifty years ago, becoming largely Presbyterian or Catholic.

George Leslie Mackay (; March 21, 1844 – June 2, 1901 ) was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Formosa ( Taiwan ).

In 1871 Mackay became the first foreign missionary to be commissioned by the Canada Presbyterian Church ( predecessor of both the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the United Church of Canada ), arriving in Taiwan on New Year's Eve, 31 December 1871.

The churches he planted later became the Northern Synod of the present Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

The orthography, called pe ̍ h-oē-jī ( POJ ), meaning " vernacular writing ", was used by the Presbyterian missionaries and became standard in the indigenous Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

The delegation from Taiwan in attendance included representatives from the Aletheia University and the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

Neng-Che Yeh et al., Relic Committee of the Northern Synod of the Taiwan Presbyterian Church, 2007 ).

Finally, what can rightly be called the first academic assessment of Mackay to appear in English was published in 2012, a collection of essays by scholars who participated in the first Mackay workshop at Queen's University ( Kingston ) and others living and working on Mackay in Taiwan, entitled The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay: An Interdisciplinary Study of Canada's First Presbyterian Missionary to Taiwan ( 1872-1901 ).

), The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay: An Interdisciplinary Study of Canada's First Presbyterian Missionary to Northern Taiwan, 1872-1901 ( Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 )

James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior ( Pe ̍ h-ōe-jī: Má Ngá-kok ; ; born Scotland, 18 March 1836 ; died March 1921 ) was the first Presbyterian missionary to Taiwan ( Formosa ).

He was an elder in the Broad Street Presbyterian Church before being sent to Taiwan by the Presbyterian Church of England ( now within the United Reformed Church ) in 1864.

On 16 June 1865, he established the first Presbyterian church in Taiwan, this date now celebrated by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan as its anniversary.

While most of these churches are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church ( USA ), or the Presbyterian Church in Canada, or the United Church of Canada, the liturgy and church practices are rooted in the Taiwanese Presbyterian tradition, and the pulpits are usually filled by ministers trained in the PCT.

The so-called Liturgy of Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian demands of 1661 ; but when it came to Convocation the members, now more fearful of William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time, not even accessible.

His parents were Presbyterian dissenters ; he was educated in a dissenting academy at Newington Green run by Charles Morton and is believed to have attended the church there.

William also instructed Dijkvelt to let it be known that he would support the Church of England ; that he was not a Presbyterian ; to persuade the Dissenters not to support James and to reassure moderate Catholics.

Bogart's father was a Presbyterian of English and Dutch descent ; his mother was an Episcopalian of English descent.

Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian ; the former, of Irish descent ; the latter, of Scotch-Irish descent.

In the United States, the LDS Church has applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

Upon leaving the White House, the couple returned to California, where they purchased a home in the wealthy East Gate Old Bel Air neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles, dividing their time between Bel Air and the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California ; Ronald and Nancy regularly attended Bel Air Presbyterian Church as well.

Eisenhower himself was baptized in the Presbyterian church shortly after assuming the presidency, the only president thus far to undergo such a rite while in office ; and his attendance at West Point was in sharp opposition to the pacifist tenets of the groups to which his parents belonged.

Presbyterians were a cross-section of society ; they were involved in slaveholding and in patriarchal ways of household management, while the Presbyterian Church government featured few democratic elements.

The very first Youth Triennium was held in 1980 at Indiana University and the conference for teens is an effort of the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the nation ; Cumberland Presbyterian Church ; and Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, the first African American denomination to embrace Presbyterianism in the reformed tradition.

There are 48 elected members of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board ( 40 voting members ; 17 non-voting delegates ), who represent synods, presbyteries, and the church at-large.

The Methodist circuit riders and local Baptist preachers made enormous gains ; to a lesser extent the Presbyterians gained members, particularly with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in frontier areas.

WCC member churches include most of the Orthodox Churches ; numerous Protestant churches, including the Anglican Communion, some Baptists, many Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian and other Reformed, a sampling of united and independent churches, and some Pentecostal churches ; and some Old Catholic churches.

Sherman wrote in his Memoirs that his father named him William Tecumseh ; Sherman was baptized by a Presbyterian minister as an infant and given the name William at that time.

Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary ; Hawn had a Jewish upbringing.