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First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
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Lexington Tennessee
Senior Saints Day Trip
Montgomery Bell State Park
June 24, 2004
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Top Row: Pastor William Jones, The Newlyweds - Myrtle & Gray Baucum, Marlyn Heikes and Linda Fout
First Row: Twyla Heikes, Betty Roberts, Jeannie Ross, Freda Kyle and Aubry Fout
Lynn Walters went along too - he was the Photographer
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The Cumberland Presbyterian Church
In the log house residence in this peaceful valley the Cumberland Presbyterian Church as born
as an Independent Presbytery on February 4, 1810. In 1814 the first Synod was organized and in 1829 the General Assembly was formed.
The founders were Rev. Samuel McAdow, Rev. Finis Ewing, and Rev. Samuel King. They were ministers of the Presbyterian Church. In the religious awakening following "The Great revival of 1800" they were leaders in the rejection of the doctrine of fatality in the Westminster Conference and as insistance that the rigid standards of the Presbyterian Church for the education of the clergy be relaxed in the light of extraordinary circumstances on the American frontier. The new church announced a "Whosoever Will" doctrine and ordained young men who felt a divine call to the ministry.
Congregations are now located in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Mission stations are in Japan, Chili and Columbia S.A. Bethel College and the Cumberland Presbyterian Seminary are located at McKinzey, Tennessee. The Cumberland Presbyterian Childrens Home is at Denton, Texas. Denominational Board Offices and the publishing plant are located at the Denominational Center at Memphis Tennessee.
 
The entrance to the Old Church
 
The Old Log Home
Replica of the home of Rev. Samuel McAdow, where and the Rev. Finis Ewing and Rev. Samuel King, founded the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, February 4, 1810. Outgrowth of "The Great Revivial of 1800", the new denomination arose to minister to the spiritual needs of a pioneer people who turned from the doctrine of predestination to embrace the "Whosoever Will" gospel of the new church. "Cumberland" was for this Cumberland region "Presbyterian" described the form of government.
The Music is "Just A Closer Walk" by Don Carroll
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