James S. Currie

Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest James S. Currie, Executive Secretary Between 1830 and 1850 at least five Presbyterian churches were organized that still exist today: First Presbyterian in Shiloh, now in Clarksville (1833), Memorial Presbyterian in San Augustine (1838), First Presbyterian in Houston (1839), First Presbyterian in Galveston (1839), and First Presbyterian in Austin (1850). The Clarksville church was organized by the Cumberland Presbyterians. Tomorrow (August...

Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest James S. Currie, Executive Secretary “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:18-19a) “(R)emember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other.” (Isaiah 46:9) “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new.” (II Corinthians 5:17) Rev. George Klett,...