About Us

The New Wineskins EPC Transitional Presbytery is made up of congregations that were called by God to leave the portion of His one great vineyard that He assigned to the PC(USA) and to move to the portion of that vineyard under the stewardship of the EPC.

Formally established in 2005, the New Wineskins Association of Churches was formed beginning in 2001 by a group of pastors and elders of the PC(USA) who were seeking to discern the best way for the 21st Century Church to be more missional, Reformed, evangelical, and Presbyterian. At about the same time, the EPC formed a Long Range Planning Commission (LRPC) to study the same question. 

Then, in 2006, NWAC formed a National Strategy Team to examine and report on the faithful options open to PC(USA) churches in response to the actions of the General Assembly of the PC(USA) taken earlier that year. In the Fall of 2006, the Strategy Team formulated a report that found that churches within the PC(USA) were faced with two faithful options: to respond to God’s call to remain within the PC(USA) and to continue to work to reform and restore it to historic Reformed theology, or, in the alternative, to peacefully depart to another Reformed body. 

At the same time, NWAC leadership and the LRPC met to discuss their mutual concerns. In February 2007, the NWAC unanimously approved and adopted the Strategy Team report, and on June 22, 2007, the 27th General Assembly of the EPC approved the establishment of transitional presbyteries. The first four churches were received into NWEPC on June 24, 2007.

We are Reformed in our theology, missional and evangelical in our purpose, and Presbyterian in our form of government.