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Reaching Our Counties That Don’t Have a PCA Church
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...
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7 days ago4 min read
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Tethered to Christ in the Midst of Culture’s Changes
Our first Church Planting Network gathering of 2025 featured two guests who spoke on two aspects of preaching. The goal of the gathering...
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7 days ago4 min read
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Particularizing in Highland Park
Those of you who have followed our church planting efforts for a while will likely remember when Corby Shields moved from Rock Creek...
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7 days ago3 min read
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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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