In All Things

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Dana Allin, Synod Executive with ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians . The two discuss some of the fundamental principles for how churches flourish, areas of collaboration between ECO and the EPC, how ECO’s Flourish Institute of Theology meshes theological education with practical application, and how ECO is defining itself as a church for its...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Kim Wells, Executive Director of Executive Education and the Center for Career Excellence at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The two discuss how inclusive leadership does not necessarily mean racial diversity but is the discipline of seeking information from a variety of sources, listening, pausing, and then reflecting.

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Mark Ingles, the EPC’s Chaplain Endorser. The two discuss the various ministry opportunities for chaplains in both the military and civilian institutions, as well as his how his role as Chaplain Endorser helps facilitate those pursuing chaplaincy ministry in the EPC. Ingles also recounts his path as the son of an Army father to his own calling as an Air Forc...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Nate Dreesmann, Executive Director of Ecclesiastical Support with ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians . The two discuss discipleship in the post-pandemic church, as well as the importance of the members of a congregation understanding theology. Dreesmann also provides insights on developing a discipleship program and discipleship culture in li...

This week, EPC National Leadership Team Chairman Brad Strait offers a challenge for 2023 from Psalm 46.

This week, EPC Stated Clerk Dean Weaver shares a brief Christmas devotional from chapters 1 and 15 of John’s gospel.

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Cathy Flores, Benefits Administrator for EPC Benefit Resources, Inc. (BRI). The two discuss her journey from three suicide attempts while growing up with an alcoholic mother to being a teenaged unwed mother herself to committing her life to Christ as an adult. Flores also recounts her experiences during a recent mission trip to Cuba in which she led two marr...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, continues a conversation with Lisa Brockman, Ruling Elder for First Presbyterian Church in Orlando, Florida. In the conclusion of a two-week dialogue, the two discuss how her path from a devout Mormon childhood to accepting Christ affected her relationships with Mormon family members—especially after she wrote her book, Out of Zion: Meeting Jesus in the Shadow of the...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Lisa Brockman, Ruling Elder for First Presbyterian Church in Orlando, Florida, and author of Out of Zion: Meeting Jesus in the Shadow of the Mormon Temple. In part one of a two-week conversation, the two discuss her path as a sixth-generation Mormon—including her childhood dream of a temple marriage—to accepting Christ as a student at the University of Utah....

Michael Davis, EPC Assistant Stated Clerk, is the guest host for episode 53 of the EPC’s weekly podcast, “In All Things.” This week, Davis shares a brief Thanksgiving devotional from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17.

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Sean Boone, Pastor of Woke Bridge Community Church in Ferguson, Missouri. The two discuss Boone’s journey from gang life and prison to freedom in Christ, and from an independent, historically Black church to planting a Southern Baptist church to planting Woke Bridge in the EPC. Boone explains how Woke Bridge Community Church got its name, and his vision for...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Marcos Ortega, Lead Pastor of Goodwill Church ’s Beacon campus in Beacon, New York. The two discuss Ortega’s journey to the EPC from a since-rejected Dispensationalist theology, and his involvement on the ad-interim committee writing a Pastoral Letter of Racial Lament and Hope. Ortega also describes The Antioch Room, a fellowship of EPC Teaching Elders of co...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Doug Resler, Senior Pastor of Parker Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Parker, Colorado. The two discuss the benefits a congregation receives when its pastor is involved in ministry beyond their local church, as well as Resler’s passion for church revitalization and the importance of that process starting with a revitalized pastor and Session. In addition,...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Bill Crawford, Pastor of the First Presbyterian churches in Thibodaux and Houma , Louisiana. The two discuss Crawford’s call to small church ministry and his 21 years in south Louisiana, including some of the challenges and opportunities for the small church. Crawford also describes his experience with disaster relief beginning with back-to-back hurricanes i...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Suzanne Zampella, Transitional Pastor for First Presbyterian Church in Monett, Missouri. The two discuss how her sense of calling to the ministry was awakened when she was ordained as a Ruling Elder. She also talks about serving in an ECO—Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians—church, and how the role of a Transitional Pastor is as a change agent, helpi...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Annie Rose, Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of the Rivers and Lakes and a member of the interim committee writing a Pastor Letter of Racial Lament and Hope. The two discuss her path to ministry as the child of a Complementarian church, as well as how serving as a Presbytery Stated Clerk provides avenues to observe pastoral stressors. She provides counsel for...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, continues his discussion with Kent Mathews, President and Academic Dean of Heartland Theological Seminary in Kansas City and Director of the EPC’s Mentored Apprenticeship Program for seminary students. In the second of a two-part conversation, the two discuss strategies and resources for preparing pastors to serve in small churches and rural churches, including how C...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Kent Mathews, President and Academic Dean of Heartland Theological Seminary in Kansas City and Director of the EPC’s Mentored Apprenticeship Program for seminary students. The two discuss the challenges and opportunities in preparing people for vocational ministry, and how Heartland Seminary and the EPC Mentored Apprenticeship Program combine rigorous academ...

EPC Stated Clerk Dean Weaver and Assistant Stated Clerk Michael Davis discuss a week of tragedy and grief in Davis’s home city of Memphis, Tenn., following the murder of Eliza Fletcher and a series of shootings in the days following. The two also reflect on the commitment of EPC churches in the city to continue to proclaim the gospel in their community.

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Bob Garment, longtime Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Florida and the Caribbean and the EPC’s new Chief Parliamentarian. The two discuss Garment’s path to the EPC from his former denomination, including how a newsletter from an EPC church in Louisiana started the process. Garment also describes how his relationship with Howard Shockley, longtime Stated Cle...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Luis Quiñones, pastor of Iglesia Presbiteriana Evangélica Nación Santa (Holy Nation Evangelical Presbyterian Church) in Haines City, Florida. The two discuss Quiñones’ spiritual journey from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, to serving as pastor in Philadelphia, Pa., to planting Nación Santa in Central Florida, and how prayer in an EPC Presbytery of Florida and the Car...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Case Thorp, Senior Associate Pastor of Evangelism for First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Florida (FPCO). The two discuss Thorp’s spiritual roots in evangelistic camp meetings in Georgia, FPCO’s church planting efforts, and his ministry in Orlando through missions, evangelism, and leadership of The Collaborative —designed to help people bridge the secular-...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Michael Flake, pastor of Storyhill Church in Davidson, North Carolina. The two discuss Flake’s church planting DNA in the EPC, including his childhood at then-church-plant Hope Church in Memphis, followed by involvement during his college years with EPC church planter Mike Moses at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville, N.C., and culminating after seminary by s...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Enid Flores, Ruling Elder for Iglesia Presbiteriana Westminster in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. The two discuss Flores’ involvement in the EPC’s Next Generation Ministries Council and Revelation 7:9 Task Force, as well as her recent service as Moderator of the Presbytery of Florida and Caribbean. Flores also describes her vision for developing pathways of service f...

Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Patrick Coelho, the EPC’s Chief Financial Officer. The two discuss Coelho’s upbringing as a first-generation American and his role as CFO of the denomination. Coelho also explains how he serves as a resource for EPC churches, including how the EPC set up online giving for churches at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and his leadership of the annua...