Gordon Kenworthy Reed
A graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary installed as the ninth Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church. During his ministry the church prospered and was revitalized. The Session first expressed formal concern over the theological liberalism within the old Southern Presbyterian Church. He participated in the early PCA organizational meetings and served as a founding trustee for the denomination.
1973 Congregational Meeting
In July 1973 the Second Presbyterian Congregation debated joining the Continuing Presbyterian Church movement and moving its affiliation into the new church. See the Resolution it approved here. Listen to the meeting here.
1973 General Assembly
Second Presbyterian participated in the August Advisory Convention in Atlanta and the 1st General Assembly at Briarwood in Birmingham. https://pca50.org/
J. Ligon Duncan, Jr.
A son of the old Southern Presbyterian Church, he was a PCA Founding Father and most of its early General Assemblies. He served on the PCA“Views of Offices” Study Committee and after the first General Assembly gathered all the founders’ signatures and published the Message to All Churches.
C. Stuart Patterson
Second’s longest serving officer, was a PCA Founding Father and attended most of its early General Assemblies. He served on the PCA Creation Study Committee and was a stalwart defender of biblical creation.
The formation of Calvary Presbytery
Calvary Presbytery was formed in January 1974 and is a regional body of congregations within the South Carolina Upcountry. We are members of the Presbyterian Church in America, the largest Bible Believing Presbyterian denomination in the United States. Dr. Gordon K. Reed preached the first sermon before Presbytery from I Peter 2:1-10 “What The Church Is For.”
Georgia Settle
Beloved wife of Paul Settle, founded the PCA’s Women in the Church Ministry and was active in the formation of the PCA History Center.
4th General Assembly in Greenville
Second Presbyterian Church hosts the 4th General Assembly in Greenville, SC.
https://www.pcahistory.org/pca/ga/index.html#4
Paul Settle moderates 8th General Assembly
a graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary installed as the tenth Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church. During his ministry the church prospered. He was a PCA Founding Father, served as a leader of Presbyterian Churchmen United and was the first coordinator for Christian education for the new denomination. During his years at Second the church prospered and in 1976 hosted the sixth PCA General Assembly.
J. Ligon Duncan III moderates the 32nd General Assembly
A covenant child of the church onetime Senior Minister of FPC Jackson and later Chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary and the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He moderated the Pittsburgh PCA General Assembly.
40th General Assembly in Greenville
Second Presbyterian Church along with Calvary Presbytery hosts the 40th General Assembly in Greenville, SC – the Duncan family republishes the Message to All Churches. Shirley Duncan, Calvary Presbytery’s First WIC President was honored as a “founding mother of the PCA.”
Dr. Phillips and the Legacy of SPC Greenville Churchmen
A graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary installed as the twelfth Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church. During his ministry the church is prospering.
One of the remarkable providences of Second’s ministry is the men who have pursued ministry from the congregation:
The late Paul Anderson, OPC Pastor, Falls River, MA Presbyterian Church
Former Member /SPC Staff
Brendon Branigin, Assistant Minister of Missions & Evangelism
Former Member / Former Ministerial Intern
Kyle Brown, OPC US Army Chaplain
Former Member / SPC Intern
Richard Burguet, PCA Senior Pastor, New Hope-Eustis, FL
Former Associate Minister
Richard Brueck, PCA Senior Pastor Waxhaw, NC
Former Member / SPC Intern
Scott C. Cook, Senior Pastor, Oconee Presbyterian Seneca
Former Member / Assistant Minister
Ezekiel Dean, Assistant Minister First Presbyterian Hattiesburg, MS
Former Member / Former Ministerial Intern
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III, PCA Chancellor & CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary
Former Member
Jeff Early, Assistant Minister of Youth & Families
Former Member / Former Ministerial Intern
Dr. Gabriel N. E. Fluhrer, Senior Minister First Presbyterian Church Chattanooga, TN
Former Member / Assistant Minister
John Furman
Former Member / Served as a PCA Minister
Dr. W. Douglas Griffith, PCA Sr Minister, Carriage Lane Presbyterian of Peachtree City, GA
Former Member / Assistant Minister
Rob Hamby, PCA Church Planter Charleston, SC
Former Member
Chase Haws
Member, Currently Serving as Ministerial Intern and pursuing ministry within the PCA
Russell Hightower, PCA Pastor Los Angeles, CA
Former SPC Intern
Matthew Holst, OPC Pastor, Shiloh Presbyterian Church Raleigh, NC
Former SPC Intern
John Hutchinson
Former SPC Intern / Served as a PCA Minister
Sam Joyner, PCA Pastor, PCA Grace Coastal Okatie, SC
Former Member / Assistant Minister
Ben Kenopa
Former Member / SPC Intern / Served as a PCA Minister
Luther Marchant
Former Member / SPC Intern / Served as a PCA Minister
Josh Martin, PCA Senior Pastor, Palmetto Hills Presbyterian Church Simpsonville, SC
Former Member /SPC Intern
Todd Matocha, Senior Pastor Greenville ARP
Former Member / SPC Intern
James E. McCarthy, PCA Senior Minister, Trinity, Statesboro, GA
Former Member / SPC Youth Director
David Oliphant, Honorably Retired PCA Minister
Former Member / Former SPC Staff / Served as a PCA Minister
David Osborne, PCA Senior Pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church Greenville, NC
Former Associate Member / SPC Intern
Steve Perkins
Former Member / Served as a PCA Minister
The late James Preston, PCUS
Former Member in the 1890s’/First Missionary of the Church
Dr. W. Duncan Rankin, Seminary Professor – Reformed Theological Seminary
Former Member / SPC Intern
Greg Skipper, PCA Associate Minister Covenant, Easley
Former SPC Intern
Josh Sparkman, PCA Senior Pastor, Christ-Mobile, AL
Former Member / SPC Intern
Seth Starkey, PCA Senior Pastor, Grace, Starkville MS
Former Member / Assistant Minister
Stephen Spinnenweber, PCA Senior Pastor Westminster Jacksonville
Former Member / SPC Intern
Wallace Tinsley, PCA Senior Pastor Filbert (SC) Presbyterian Church
Former Associate Minister
Steve Wallace, PCA Chief Operating Officer Reformed Theological Seminary
Former Associate Minister
John Wheeler, SBC Assistant Pastor First Baptist Waycross, GA
Former Member
Jeffrey J. Windt, Honorably Retired PCA Minister
Former Member & Assistant Minister
