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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.
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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.
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It was held with about 60 people in the auditorium-turned-sanctuary of the School of Nursing at Auburn University Montgomery.
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The Deiberts are ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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