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People From Synod at General Assembly

MISSISSIPPI PRESBYTERY was represented at the 214th General Assembly by, from left to right: alternate elder commissioner Carolyn McLarnan; minister commissioner Steve Bryant; Morris Taylor, pastor/observer from Canton; John Dudley, stated clerk; Michael Herrin, alternate minister commissioner; Emett Barfield, presbytery executive; John Dudley, youth advisory delegate; and Joyce Gibbons, elder commissioner.

Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ attests that “Jesus Christ is the only Savior and Lord, and all people everywhere are called to place their faith, hope and love in Him.”

Commissioners from presbyteries in the Synod of Living Waters who served on the Assembly Committee on General Assembly Procedures, from left to right: elder commissioner Kent Grimes from Memphis Presbytery; youth advisory delegate Rachel McCord from the Presbytery of East Tennessee; and elder commissioner Mary Freeman
from St. Andrew Presbytery.

Warner Durnell, pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church in Nashville and Moderator-elect of Middle Tennessee Presbytery, was the minister commissioner from
Middle Tennessee.

Presbytery executives from the Synod of Living Waters had a farewell luncheon during General Assembly for John Rickard, who has left North Alabama Presbytery as executive to become executive of Black Hawk Presbytery, and for Reg Parsons, who has been named executive of the Synod of South Atlantic, following a term as interim executive in the Presbytery of East Tennessee. In photo, from left to right: Cheryl Ann Elfond, Transylvania Presbytery executive; Terry Newland, Sheppards and Lapsley Presbytery executive; Phil Leftwich, Middle Tennessee Presbytery executive; David Snellgrove, Synod executive; Reg Parsons; John Rickard; Sam Marshall, Memphis Presbytery interim executive; Betty Meadows, Mid-Kentucky Presbytery executive; Rich Fifield, Holston Presbytery executive; and Rich Cooper, Western Kentucky Presbytery executive.