Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1961 - Rparchives.org

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 33
sentative on the Board of Corporators of Geneva College is J. 0.
Edgar.
Our statistical report has been forwarded to the Stated Clerk
and all our members are accounted for. Our Traveling Fund is
paid in full.
REPORT OF MIDWEST PRESBYTERY
Respectfully submitted,
R. Paul Mathews, Clerk
Midwest Presbytery would respectfully report that during the
past year we have held two called meetings and one regular
meeting. Also, a pro re nata meeting was held in conjunction
with our regular fall meeting in Kansas City October 4 and 5,
for the purpose of ordaining Jerry Hayenga sine titulo to the
Gospel ministry. He is now serving as Stated Supply atthe
Cache Creek Congregation, Apache, Oklahoma. Rev. D. C. Ward
passed to his heavenly Home August 10, I960.
Marion McFarland was installed Pastor of the Clarinda Congregation
on March 28, 1961.
Licentiate Robert More has completed a year of graduate
work in the Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.,
where he received the degree of Master of Theology.
Licentiate Robert Morrow was received by transfer from
Pittsburgh Presbytery on June 9, 1961. He has accepted the call
to become Pastor of the Hot Springs Congregation. He is to be
ordained and installed in the near future.
We have taken Alvin Young of Sterling Congregation under
our care as a prospective student of theology.
Verd Dunn has completed the second year course of study
in our seminary and has been recommended for licensure.
Jerrold Milroy has completed his first year in our seminary
and has been advanced to the second year.
We have seventeen congregations under our care. The Stafford
Congregation is in the process of being disorganized. Their
church building and parsonage have been sold in accordance
with the rules of Synod s Board of Trustees. The Eskridge Congregation
worships with the Topeka Congregation and does not
desire a Pastor or Stated Supply. The Beulah and Superior Congregations
were united by action of Presbytery, October 5, I960.
The Park City Congregation, Wichita, was organized March
12, 1961. The charter members of the newly organized Congregation
consist of ten who were received by certificate from other
Covenanter Congregations, 3 by letters of standing from the
Methodist Church with their acceptance of the standards of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church, 9 by profession of faith, and 5