There are more counties in the Tennessee Valley Presbytery that don’t have a PCA church than those that do. Seventeen of TVP’s counties...

Our first Church Planting Network gathering of 2025 featured two guests who spoke on two aspects of preaching. The goal of the gathering...

Those of you who have followed our church planting efforts for a while will likely remember when Corby Shields moved from Rock Creek...

Curt and Suzi Stapleton have been in Athens, TN since 2021, planting Redeemer Athens. The church started in 2022, and in its second full...

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....

As the Woodlands Gathering community grows, the church is improving their building and continues to offer cultural education...

Erik and Maggie McDaniel’s family of six children includes one they adopted as an infant, three siblings they adopted as kids, and...

Karen and Carl Ellis with students at the Edmiston Center Karen Ellis, a student and professor of Christian Endurance Studies, is the...

“For the first time in eight decades that Gallup has tracked American religious membership, more adults in the United States do not...

This July, Corey Pelton hosted Rural Church Development’s first Small Town Pastor’s Retreat for pastors who are ministering in small...

“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..."

David Gentino visited the Tennessee Valley Presbytyery’s Church Planting Network gathering on April 30th to talk about evangelistically...

Coinciding with his unconventional ministry setup, Corey Pelton, leader of Rural Church Development (RCD) in north Georgia, likes to...

Each presbytery has a committee of local leaders who report to Mission to North America (MNA). The Tennessee Valley Presbytery designated...

“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...

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...

par-ak-al-eh'-o para: beside/alongside kaleo: call In our December email series, we briefly touched on the Tennessee Valley Presbytery’s...

At the end of January, Jim Coffield joined our presbytery’s Church Planting Network quarterly gathering to discuss emotional intelligence...

Because of faithful donors like you, our presbytery is able to support and equip our pastors for long-term health in ministry. Through...

In his ministry to the rural areas and small towns of North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee, Corey Pelton has practiced learning about...