Struthers Presbyterian Church may secede from national church

STRUTHERS — Members of Struthers Presbyterian Church are expected to decide Sunday whether to secede from the Presbyterian Church USA and its Eastminster Presbytery.

Sunday’s congregational meeting follows last month’s unanimous recommendation from the church’s 12-member session that the local church no longer be affiliated with the national church and the presbytery “for theological reasons of conscience.”

The session is the congregation’s board of trustees, which was unanimously elected by the congregation to be its governing body.

The resolution containing the recommendation says the congregation’s long-term best interests would be served by its “continued independence” and it does not make any reference to the church changing its name or seeking another denominational affiliation.

The presbytery, which includes 54 northeast Ohio congregations, is a Mineral Ridge-based regional body of the national church.

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