Central Presbyterian Church

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article or section is written like an advertisement.
Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view per Wikipedia policy.
Mark blatant advertising for speedy deletion with {{db-spam}}. (help, talk)

An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines.

If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. (See also Wikipedia:Notability)
This article has been tagged since March 2007.

"Deliberately diverse and fully inclusive, Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Austin is a community of Christian faith where each person is welcomed as a unique child of God." [ http://cpcaustin.org/Information/Mission%20Statement.htm ]

Located on the northeast corner of Brazos and Bois d’Arc (now 8th Street) in Austin, Texas, Central Presbyterian Church traces its roots to the organization of the first Presbyterian church in Austin on Sunday, October 13, 1839. First identified as Presbyterian Church (South), the congregation has been known subsequently as Austin Presbyterian Church, Southern Presbyterian Church, Free Presbyterian Church (i.e. its pews were not for sale to families), First Southern Presbyterian Church and Central Presbyterian Church. The most renowned pastor in Central’s history has been Reverend Richmond K. Smoot. His 29-year ministry, 1876 until his death in 1905, carried the church to great heights of service, inspiring young men to enter the ministry and stimulating the founding of Texas’ first Presbyterian school of theology, which became the present Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

William Sidney Porter, the acclaimed O. Henry of American short story, sang bass in the choir of First Southern in the mid-1880s.

Central Presbyterian Church is a member of Mission Presbytery, in the Synod of the Sun region of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../c/e/n/Central_Presbyterian_Church_37b5.html"