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Sandra Shepherd and her husband Scott live in Nashville, Tennessee with their cats Boots and Socks. She loves singing, creating clergy stoles, and trying new crafts. She has served as Associate Pastor at the Brenthaven Church for 8 years. Music is provided by Pierce Murphy, Caldera Blue .  Source:  https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierce_Murphy/through-the-olive-branches/caldera-blue Comment...

Sandra Shepherd and her husband Scott live in Nashville, Tennessee with their cats Boots and Socks. She loves singing, creating clergy stoles, and trying new crafts. She has served as Associate Pastor at the Brenthaven Church for 8 years. Music is provided by Pierce Murphy, Caldera Blue .  Source:  https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierce_Murphy/through-the-olive-branches/caldera-blue Comment...

Reverend Andy Eppard is the Pastor of Cedar Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Greeneville, Tennessee.  He has been in pastoral ministry since 1998 and has served churches is both Missouri Presbytery and the Presbytery of East Tennessee.  Born and raised in Indiana, Andy attended Indiana University where he earned a Bachelor in Arts in Psychology.  He went on to earn his Master in Arts in Theo...

Huiling Pritchett, born and raised in mainland China, came to United States of America in her late 20’s and soon encountered and embraced her Christian faith. Huiling has 2 children of Chinese descent from her first marriage. She remarried to Craig Pritchett and has a blended family now with 6 children. Currently, Huiling is practicing as a licensed professional counselor in Colorado. She is also...

Huiling Pritchett, born and raised in mainland China, came to United States of America in her late 20’s and soon encountered and embraced her Christian faith. Huiling has 2 children of Chinese descent from her first marriage. She remarried to Craig Pritchett and has a blended family now with 6 children. Currently, Huiling is practicing as a licensed professional counselor in Colorado. She is also...

Rev. Paul Tucker is the minister at the Brush Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.  In our conversation, Paul talks about the strong sense of wanting to serve an intergenerational congregation, Henri Nouwen, and the Church at its best is one of humility.  Music is provided by Pierce Murphy, Caldera Blue .  Source:  https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierce_Murphy/throug...

Melinda Reams is a 4th generation Cumberland Presbyterian who attends the Russellville Cumberland Presbyterian Church where she has been a Sunday School teacher, Director of Children's Ministry, and CP Women's Ministry President.  She has also been active at the presbyterial level serving at Camp Peniel in many capacities including Director of Junior Camp and speaking at 3rd Age Retreat and is cur...

Rev. Dr. Fleming is the Adult Ministry Coordinator for the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He lives in Paducah, Kentucky. He attends the New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is married to Amy Fleming and has 3 adult children: Alex, Marcus, and Hannah.  YouTube Encounter Channel: Cumberland Presbyterian Encounter Study - YouTube Weekly Encounter Newsletter sign-up: en...

Denise Adams is a candidate for the ministry under the care of Arkansas Presbytery. She is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Memphis Theological Seminary. She is a church secretary, a church camp volunteer, and an elder. She is the proud mother of Rev. Joshua Murray. Denise enjoys thrift stores, yard sales and hunting Native American artifacts. Music is provided by Pierce Murphy, Caldera Blue .  So...

Rev. Mike Wilkinson has been the pastor of Knoxville First Cumberland Presbyterian Church since 2013.  He is also currently serving on our denominational Ministry Council.  Mike has been married to his gracious wife, Joanna, for almost forty years.  They have three wonderful daughters, one of which is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, and five awesome grandchildren. Music is provided by Pierce M...

Rev. Rebecca Prenshaw is honored to be an interviewee on the Cumberland Road podcast hosted by Rev. T.J. Malinoski.  A native of Greeneville, Tennessee, she graduated from East Tennessee State University with a BBA in accounting.  While working as a CPA in Chattanooga, she met her future husband, Rick, and they recently celebrated their 40th anniversary. They have three grown sons and visit them a...

Pat Pickett is an ordained Cumberland Presbyterian minister currently serving worshiping communities in experimental ways and bringing diverse persons together. She writes, "God and I have been playing hide and seek since I was a child. Glimpses of God came in unexpected places. It was not in church, school, or any other institution where God welcomed me as God has through loving relationships and...

Pat Pickett is an ordained Cumberland Presbyterian minister currently serving worshiping communities in experimental ways and bringing diverse persons together. She writes, "God and I have been playing hide and seek since I was a child. Glimpses of God came in unexpected places. It was not in church, school, or any other institution where God welcomed me as God has through loving relationships and...

Mark Davis writes, "I'm a fifth-generation Cumberland Presbyterian, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, though I don't count generational heritage as a quality setting one Cumberland Presbyterian apart from any other Cumberland Presbyterian. My parents, Rev. Dr. Harold Davis (deceased) and Willene Davis, were very active in the denomination, and fortunately, saw to it that I was too. My faith's fo...

Gwen and her husband Mac live in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they are members of the Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She has served the denomination on the General Assembly Council, the Ministry Council, and is currently on the Our United Outreach (OUO) committee.  In the Presbytery of East Tennessee, she serves on the Committee on the Ministry.  At Beaver Creek, she teaches Sunday Sc...

Revs. Alfredo (Freddy) and Lyvia Rincón are the church planters and co-pastors for Agape Cumberland Presbyterian Church in El Paso, Texas. Agape is a bi-lingual congregation that was recently organized on February 20, 2022. They are both members of Presbytery del Cristo where Lyvia serves on the Committee on Preparation for Ministry, and Freddy serves as Presbytery Moderator and on the Congregatio...

Rev. Kathy Lofton serves as Associate Minister and Worship Leader at Covenant Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Ada, Oklahoma. She and her husband Travis Lynn Lofton have been married 39 years and live on a farm with their Mini-Schnauzer Pia. Kathy and Travis love playing pickleball and hiking. They have a daughter, son, and daughter-in-law who make the world a better place. Music is provided by P...

Reverend Jason Chambers is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister and a graduate of Bethel University and Memphis Theological Seminary.  He has served in the United States Navy as a Chaplain, a Treatment Advisor in the Arkansas Community Corrections, and currently is a Resident Chaplain in the University of Arkansas for Medical Services in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Jason has two young children and his w...

Reverend Kim Moore was born in Missouri but grew up in rural middle Tennessee. She became a nurse - living in Ohio, New Mexico, and now in Tennessee - and after 33 years still enjoys a few days each month spent in that calling. Her real job (and passion) is pastoring Mt. Sharon Cumberland Presbyterian Church near Springfield Tennessee. She has two grown daughters who are very artistic (must have s...

Rev. Matthew Ingram has three children ages 14, 11, and 10.  He is married to Lindsey Ingram.  Matthew received his Master of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary and serves the First Presbyterian Church of Alabaster in Alabama. Matthew writes, "I don't live far from where I grew up and have been Cumberland Presbyterian my whole life, as have my parents and theirs before them for several gen...

Reverend Kristi Lounsbury felt the call to ordained ministry while serving as the Youth Moderator of North Central Presbytery her first year at Bethel (College) University. Although Kristi had always been involved in her home church, Shinar CPC, in New London, Iowa, the call was not easy to discern in the late 1980’s when women were not accepted much in local churches. She graduated from Bethel in...

Mitchell M. Walker, Sr.’s home of origin is Dyersburg, Tennessee. He is a graduate of Dyersburg High School (1970), Bethel College/University (B.A., 1974), Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1977), Columbia Theological Seminary (D.Min., 1996), and Memphis Theological Seminary (Certificate in Addiction Counseling). He is married to Mary Elaine Friend Walker and is also father and...

Rev. Leslie A Johnson is minister of Eastlake Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City where he has pastored for the last sixteen years.  Leslie has served churches in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and is a graduate of the Program of Alternate Studies.  He has served at camps, various boards and agencies and as moderator of Mission Synod where he fell in love with the Choctaw and Colombian...

Rev. Dr. Michael Qualls has been an ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for almost 44 years.  He is currently serving as Director of the Program of Alternate Studies, a vital alternative preparation for ministry administered through Memphis Theological Seminary.  He is also Director of the Cumberland Presbyterian House of Studies, an entity within the seminary community which g...

Rev. Christian Smith is the senior pastor of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville, Tennessee where he has served for the last 7 and a half years.. He and his wife, Jodi, have been married for 22 years and have one child, 13 year old Maggie. When he is not at the church, you can typically find him at a concert or trying to catch a fish. Music is provided by Pierce Murphy, Caldera Blue...