January 8 Today in OPC History

On January 8, 1983, the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic held a special meeting at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Burtonsville, Maryland. The presbytery at that time numbered thirteen churches and one chapel with a membership of 1,269. Among the twenty-two ministerial members of the presbytery were Thomas Tyson (Silver Spring, MD), Stuart Jones (Baltimore, MD), Allen Harris (Columbia, MD), Richard Ellis (Frederick, MD), Charles Ellis (Silver Spring, MD), Douglas Felch (Matthews, NC), Cromwell Roscamp (Raleigh, NC), Timothy Gregson (Harrisonburgh, VA), Edwin Urban (Leesburg, VA), Richard Knodel, Jr. (Lynchburg, VA), George Hall, Jr. (Manassas, VA), Richard Horner (Roanoke, VA), George Haney (Vienna, VA), H. Morton Whitman (Williamsburg, VA), and Hailu Mekonnen (Washington, D.C.).

In 2000, the presbytery divided as congregations in southern Virginia and North Carolina joined the newly created Presbytery of the Southeast. Currently, the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic numbers twelves churches and one mission work with a membership of 1,335.

Picture: Allen Harris (left) and Charles Ellis