Lehigh Presbytery

Strengthening & Supporting Congregations

Lehigh Presbytery
710 N. Cedar Crest Blvd.
Allentown, PA 18104
(610) 391-9020

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About Us

Our Present

Lehigh Presbytery is a ministry of Jesus Christ through the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), dedicated to strengthening and supporting the congregations that by the grace of God acting through the Holy Spirit act as Jesus’ hands, feet, and heart in the world.

The Presbytery is composed of thirty-two worshipping communities in seven counties of eastern Pennsylvania: Luzerne, Monroe, Carbon, Schuylkill, Northampton, Lehigh, and Berks. It includes one Arabic fellowships, the Korean Church of the Lehigh Valley, and a new church development, The Barn. It is one of seventeen regional bodies that make up the Synod of the Trinity. The Lehigh Presbytery office is located in the First Presbyterian Church of Allentown.

Our Past

The area covered by Lehigh Presbytery was originally settled by German Lutherans and Moravians, but a Presbyterian influence began to be felt as early as 1744 when David Brainerd came to the forks of the Delaware to tend to the spiritual needs of the Indians and the Scotch-Irish living in the area; his name and spirit live on at the Brainerd Center, the Presbytery’s camp. The Presbytery was chartered in 1871.

Our Future

Like the Church of Jesus Christ around the world, the churches of the Lehigh Presbytery are in the midst of change. At the June 2004 meeting of the Presbytery, a plan for “Strengthening and Supporting Congregations” was adopted, building on the mission.

In 2006, after years of prayer and study, the sessions of the Presbytery were asked about their hopes and dreams, as well as challenges they faced. The responses we received ran a wide gamut. Among the common replies we found that:

  • there is a desire to learn how to relate to those people who are not worshiping God;
  • there is a desire for spiritual formation, for a deepening relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit; and
  • there is a need for vision: how do we move from who we are, to be more fully who God would have us be?

These hopes, these challenges, these questions, are at the heart of what it means to be a missional church.

Upcoming Events

  1. Committee on Shared Gifts- no meeting today

    April 6
  2. Committee on Ministry

    April 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  3. Personnel Committee will not meet today

    April 13

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Recent News

  • When Can We Go Back to Church? Resources for Session Decision-Making
  • Let’s Canoe the Mountains Together!
  • How might we adjust?
  • A Word from our Transitional Leader on Stewardship
  • Change, Transition, and Hope: September Presbytery Assembly Looks to the Future

Lehigh Presbytery is called by God to nurture its congregations as they grow in every way into communities whose head is Jesus Christ, so that they will go out to make disciples, baptizing and teaching in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and to witness, through their actions, to the love of God. cf. Ephesians 4:15 and Matthew 28:18-21

Learn more…

Lehigh Presbytery
710 N. Cedar Crest Blvd.
Allentown, PA 18104
Tel (610) 391-9020

Monday – Friday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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