First Presbyterian Church Clarksdale is Hosting Covenant Presbytery on May 19th

“Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into His presence with singing!” -Psalm 100:2

Our church has been selected to host a meeting of our Presbytery, ‘Covenant Presbytery’ on May 19th. This will be an all day meeting with some special events on the Sunday and Monday leading up to the Tuesday Presbytery meeting.

(Presbytery is a meeting of the regional governing body of our Church made up of Pastors and Ruling Elders from Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee -there are about 50 churches in our Presbytery. To learn more about this important governing body of the PCA please click here.)

Our Church has not had this privilege of hosting Presbytery since 2005 and we are expecting about 100 Presbyters (Pastors & Elders) to be attending this very important meeting at our church. It really is an honor for our church to be selected to host this work of the larger body of Jesus’ Church. Please be in prayer for this special day in the life of our Church.

Prayer Requests:
-Please lift these 100+ Pastors and Elders up in prayer as they come together to do the work of the church and serve the Lord Jesus.
-Pray for Christopher (who is working directly with Presbytery to organize the actual meeting) and our Elders as they prepare for this meeting.
-Pray for all the women of our church who are coming together to graciously prepare food and serve the Presbyters for this event.

For Presbyters: Order of Events

Sunday, May 17th: Guest Preacher Rev. Dr. Andy Wyatt -Worship is at 11:00am & Sunday School is 9:45am

Monday, May 18th: Pre-Presbytery Dinner and Seminar by Rev. Dr. Andy Wyatt 6:00pm in the Church Fellowship Hall free Taco Salad meal provided by FPC-Clarksdale RSVP required. (See below for more details)

Tuesday, May 19th: Presbytery Meeting

-Breakfast and Coffee: 8:30am provided by the Ladies of FPC- Clarksdale

-Registration Opens 8:30am

-Presbytery Meeting officially Begans: TBD

-Worship Service: TBD

-BBQ Lunch: 12:00-1:30pm provided by the WIC Counsel

-Presbytery Meeting Resumes: 1:30pm

We had so much fun seeing everyone enjoy themselves at the Easter Egg Hunt! We were able to capture a few candid moments as well as the Family Photo Booth images. You can find your family photos to download using the link below.

Our vision is to live and share the ministry of reconciliation in Clarksdale, in Mississippi, and around the world.

“All this is from GOd, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18-19).