Overture:  #3

From:  Fellowship Presbytery

To:  Mission to North America

Title:  “Transfer Lancaster County, SC from Palmetto to Fellowship Presbytery”

To the 32nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America:

Whereas, Fellowship Presbytery consists of the north-central South Carolina counties of Chester, York, and Union and a portion of Cherokee County; and

Whereas, Palmetto Presbytery consists of the thirty counties in South Carolina south and east of and including the counties of Aiken, Lexington, Richland, Fairfield, and Lancaster; and

Whereas, the Session of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Van Wyck, South Carolina, the only PCA Congregation in Lancaster County, has petitioned Palmetto Presbytery to transfer Lancaster County to Fellowship Presbytery; and

Whereas, Lancaster County geographically and economically is more closely associated with the north-central region of the state; and

Whereas, Fellowship Presbytery believes that there are significant church planting opportunities in Lancaster County that might be better met by Fellowship Presbytery with its more concentrated focus on north-central South Carolina;

Therefore be it resolved that Fellowship Presbytery, in concurrence with the above expressed desire of the Session of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Van Wyck, hereby overtures the 32nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America to redraw the border between the Fellowship Presbytery and Palmetto Presbytery transferring Lancaster County into Fellowship Presbytery to be effective July 1, 2004.

Adopted by Fellowship Presbytery at the stated meeting on September 25, 2003.

Attested by: /s/ R.F. (Bob) Sprinkle, Jr., Stated Clerk