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...

At our presbytery’s August Church Planting Network Gathering, Chris Vogel spoke about national trends in church openings and closings and...

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...

This June, Tyler Majors became Lakeway Presbyterian’s first pastoral intern. The Morristown, TN church is led by planting pastor Chris...

This month marks two years that Christ Church Presbyterian has been meeting for Sunday morning worship. The plant was started by Covenant...

Until joining Mosaic, Corby served as associate pastor at Rock Creek Fellowship on Lookout Mountain, GA. Corby and his wife, Rachel, have...

As you may recall from our previous newsletter, Mosaic Fellowship in Chattanooga, TN has been going through a leadership transition. We...

“We’ve been in Athens for about 16 years and consider ourselves Baptists, but we had a difficult time finding a Bible-centered church...

Now that Travis Vaughn has joined the Tennessee Valley Presbytery as the executive director of church planting, he is working to build...

Through Corey Pelton’s Rural Church Development work, he’s had the opportunity to help a gathering of believers form in Ellijay, GA....

We'd like to let you know that two churches in the TVP church planting initiative - one that has particularized and one that is still in...

According to an article published by Barna Group a little over a year ago, “Even amidst the pandemic, church planting remains a priority...

After several years of outreach, events, and Bible studies, Woodlands Gathering officially launched Sunday morning worship on November...

We are thankful for God's provision and care in 2022 among TVP's church planters, elders, and core groups. He is faithful. We hope the...

“What a joy it has been to first visit and then become a member at Grace Presbyterian Church. I have become immersed in the Word of God...

In less than a year since Curt Stapleton and his family moved to Athens, TN, Redeemer Athens reached the point of holding Sunday morning...

On August 21, 2022, Grace+Peace celebrated their particularization service. It was clear that God had raised up the right men at the...

The first time Benjie Slaton, pastor of Grace+Peace, visited Ooltewah in 2018, he wanted to figure out just what the community of...

From Jason Coffey Friends, it is an exciting time for the TVP Church Planting Movement. As we continue to work toward planting twenty...

In the last six months, Corey Pelton has been hard at work building connections in the rural areas of north Georgia, western North...

Part of Corey Pelton’s work is to come alongside the pastors who are already leading churches in rural areas, whether they are...

One part of a pastor’s job is to equip the congregation to serve each other and to be salt and light in the community. Brad and Beth...

Redeemer PCA Athens is continuing to build their foundation so they can join God’s work of reaching the lost in Athens and restoring the...

We are excited to introduce Travis Vaughn as the presbytery’s new Executive Director of Church Planting. Travis comes to us from Atlanta...

Grace Presbyterian Church in Jasper, TN entered a new season of growth with help from the presbytery’s revitalization program. Erik...

When the Tennessee Valley Presbytery began developing our current church planting strategy, we also took time to assess the need for...

By the Lord’s provision, we not only reached our 2021 financial goal of $415,000, but we surpassed it. The Lord used the generosity of...

We are excited to announce that Woodlands Gathering closed on a new worship space in October 2021. (If you’re unfamiliar with Woodlands,...

This past summer, Benjie Slaton, planting pastor of Grace + Peace Church, hosted a study on baptism. Through selected readings, monthly...

We are extremely pleased to introduce Curt Stapleton and Corey Pelton. Both pastors are raising funds and preparing to head to the field...

The Lord has been incredibly faithful to our church plants this year. As we’ve stepped out in faith, seeking to follow His will, He has...