UPC Manual Question

[Sam]

Originally Posted by U376977

Just for me to understand....
In regard to my question about host pastors contacting the ministers pastor is all about UPC contol of their ministers?

And then your story means that:

The UPC does not allow a non UPC minister to preach in one of their churches unless it is pre cleared by district?

Quite a few years ago (in the nineteen sixties) I was going to a UPC Church and doing some preaching in non-UPC churches. My pastor did not comment on it or reprimand me. One of the men from our church (Bro. Estep) started a new church in the small city he lived in. It was Ludlow, KY and across the river from the Cincinnati area where we live and where the UPC church was that we attended. The pastor of the new work was UPC and I was the speaker for the opening service. The place was packed out (mostly people from the UPC church where we went) and it was a good service.

A couple of months later this pastor was the host pastor for a UPC youth rally. It was held in a local school because his church was too small. The speaker was an ALJC preacher from Dayton, OH. The next day the UPC pastor (Bro. Estep) was notified that two of the Kentucky ministers from that area had "filed charges" (that was the term he used if I remember correctly) against him because he had a non-UPC minister preach. Bro. Estep left the UPC and joined the ALJC.