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- The History of Immanuel Presbyterian Church
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The Steering Committee is formed.
This Steering Committee was formed by volunteers consisting of members from the three remaining Montgomery PCUSA congregations: Calvary, Memorial, and Westminster. This Steering Committee began studying Scripture, Reformed theology, and Presbyterian history and polity, all with an eye toward a new community of Christian faith for Montgomery in the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition. A decision was made to begin the search for a "clergy couple" to help organize the new church development. -
The Deiberts are called to serve.
Elizabeth & Richard Deibert were at the time completing a final semester at Columbia Theological Seminary. The Deiberts accepted and began a weekly commute from Atlanta to Montgomery for morning worship with the surrounding Presbyterian congregations and for afternoon study and planning with the enlarging Steering Committee. -
First worship service of Immanuel Presbyterian Fellowship.
It was held with about 60 people in the auditorium-turned-sanctuary of the School of Nursing at Auburn University Montgomery. -
The Deiberts are ordained.
The Deiberts are ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament. -
Immanuel is approved to become a new congragation.
At the 18 April 1991 meeting of the Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley (central Alabama) at First Presbyterian Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a petition was made and approved for Immanuel to be organized as a new congregation. -
Immanuel Presbyterian Fellowship is chartered.
On Sunday afternoon, 23 June 1991, in the auditorium of Irma B. Moore Hall at Auburn University Montgomery, Immanuel Presbyterian Fellowship was chartered Immanuel Presbyterian Church. -
Construction begins on the new sanctuary.
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First service held in the new sanctuary.
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The Immanuel sanctuary is dedicated.
The sanctuary was dedicated in a service led by Walter Brueggemann, Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Seminary, in a sermon entitled "Like A Thief In the Night" based on 1 Samuel 3:1-14. -
Reverend Elizabeth L.O'Neill joins Immanuel.