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This list compiled by Les Deatherage

Start Date             End Date                 Activity                                                                Pastor 

1920                      1922               Met in old school house                    10 dedicated souls
Winter 1922         Spring 1923         Met in Tent City                              Mr. Ware
Spring 1923          Summer 1924      No services held                              N/A
Summer 1924      End of 1925          Met in new school house                   Rev. Stearns
1926                      1 Jan 1927       Started Sunday School                     Dr. Roy,  Superintendent
                                                                                                     Services by Winter
                                                                                                     residents Dr. Wright &
                                                                                                     Elder Pitts
1 Jan 1927                                   Petition to start Presbyterian
                                                 Church requested  of Dr. J.F.
                                                 Shepherd.  Took religious census;
                                                 urged to organize.                            Rev. Alex Linn
12 Feb. 1928                                Affiliated with Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
                                                 Stream of supply pastors                   Robert M. Stevenson
                                                                                                     Lloyd Anderson
                                                                                                     H. L. Brown
                                                                                                     Walter R. Courtenay  
                                                                                                     Allen G. Bowering
                                                                                                     J. F. Vernon
                                                                                                     Dr. J. F. Shepherd

Summer 1932                                First “regular” minister                     Rev. Henry O. Moore
1933                      1939               Planned for own building                   Rev. Henry O. Moore
                                                 Met in Howey Academy Auditorium
1937                                           Charter of Incorporation
                                                 Howey-In-The-Hills, Community Church
1940                       Fall 1942       “Tourist Pastor”                                Rev. David Lang
Oct. 1942              End 1949         “Stated Supply Pastor”                      Rev. William Cady
                                                 Built present sanctuary
Jan. 1950              Apr. 1952         Shared pulpit w/ Center Hill                Dr. J. C. Hayes
Apr. 1952              Jan. 1953         No record of pastor                          Unknown
Jan. 1953              Feb. 1957         Purchased Palm Ave. manse               Rev. Russell Vernon Carr
Feb. 1957             Aug. 1957         Interim pastor                                  Unknown
Aug. 1957             End 1959          Seminary graduate                            Charles A. Schroeder
Jan. 1960              Oct. 1962         Out of retirement                             Dr. Walter D. Ritter
Oct. 1962              Jun. 1963         Interim pastor                                  Unknown
Jun. 1963              1977                Built Fellowship Hall                           Gordon E. Towers
                                                 Built manse on Palmetto
                                                 G. A. Commissioner
1977                     Mar. 1978         Interim pastor                                  Rev. Frank Walkup
Mar. 1978              End 1996          Longest staying pastor                       Rev. Fredric Ashworth
1997                    Feb. 2004          Retired Air Force Chaplain                   Rev. Robert Merrell
                                                 Longest stated supply
                                                 Planned new sanctuary
1 March 2004        13 Mar 2005       Retired Army Chaplain                       Rev. Stanley J O'Loughlin
1 March 2005        Present              Full time pastor                               Rev. Ken Folmsbee