Veritas Presbytery

A Celebrated Beginning

On August 19, 2024, five ministers in good standing of Second Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church gathered in Greenwood, SC, along with elder representatives from three former ARP churches to form Veritas Presbytery, an independent unaffiliated presbytery. These founding ministers, Tony Locke, John Paul Marr, Peter Waid, Mark Wright, and Seth Yi, took a page out of the ARP Church history books in following the pattern of the Associate Presbytery of Scotland which was organized at Gairney Bridge, near Kinross, on Dec. 6, 1733. Ebenezer Erskine, James Fisher, William Wilson, and Alexander Moncreiff seceded from the Church of Scotland, and therefore were sometimes called “Seceders.”

That same day, the newly elected Moderator of Veritas Presbytery, Rev. John Paul Marr, notified the Stated Clerk of Second Presbytery in writing of the transfer and reception of these founding ministers into Veritas Presbytery.

Soli Deo Gloria