July 9 Today in OPC History

On July 9, 2004, Faith Presbyterian Church in Garland, Texas, became an organized congregation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Chad Bond was installed as pastor. Messrs. John Emmett, Joseph Hammond, and Andrew Moody were installed as ruling elders, and Messrs. George Osborne and James Pray as deacons. A few years earlier Mr. Osborne and his wife, Jo, Mr. Emmett and his wife, Naomi, and Debbie McKenna and her family began working with Presbytery of the Southwest Regional Home Missionary Gary Davenport about planting an OP congregation in northeast Dallas.

Picture: July 9, 2004 at Faith OPC in Garland, Texas: (from left to right) Mark Moody, Andrew Moody, Kevin Van Der Linden, Gary Davenport, George Osborne, Chad Bond, Todd Bordow, Scott Johnson, Joe Hammond, James Pray, and John Emmett.