Responding to a letter of complaint, the EPC National Leadership Team met in Orlando January 14 with representatives of New River Presbytery (NRP) to hear concerns about the “distrust and division” caused by the 44th General Assembly.

On January 22, 2025, EPC Teaching Elders Mike Moses, Matt Blazer, and Mark Toon met with fellow TEs Nate Atwood, Rufus Burton, Don Fortson, and Ruling Elder Gordon Miller, at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville, N.C. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Elders agreed in principle on a statement of understanding.

First Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge, Ga., was received by the Presbytery of the Southeast at its January 2025 stated meeting. Bainbridge is in southwest Georgia, 40 miles north of Tallahassee, Fla. The church was chartered in 1852 by the Presbytery of Florida in the old Southern Presbyterian Church.

Frustrated by the failure of the Presbytery of the Alleghenies and the General Assembly to vote on an overture forbidding the ordination of homosexuals, a church in Mansfield, Ohio, voted in November to leave the EPC.

After a contentious two-year battle that ended with its pastor and Session removed from office by the Presbytery of the Alleghenies, Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pa., voted in January to dissolve its relationship with the EPC.