The civil war touched the presbytery when confederate General John Morgan led his raiders across Ohio (the northernmost advance of the Confederacy) and directly across the presbytery. He surrendered almost on the steps of the Weaver Beaver United Presbyterian church, which was until it closed recently the northern most church in the Presbytery.
The church continues to lead the community in the formation and operation of the Daily Bread Center, a collaboration of 11 churches to provide a community food pantry.
Washington Presbytery was a very local-mission-oriented presbytery with the Board of National Missions, especially in the 1950s and 1960s.
“I found it personally to be a very powerful statement. How the effort is made to spread that light, it’s pretty amazing.”
The Civil War probably had more effect on West Virginia than most of the nation. It basically split the church.
“God’s vision is here. God’s realm on earth can be seen in our midst. God’s promises yearning to be fulfilled call us into the future.”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” –John 1:1
“The contentious debates that we’ve been having we’re not really having anymore, they seem to have abated.”
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