OUr History

• November 27, 1949-Chattanooga Valley Presbyterian Church was officially organized as a local church of the Presbyterian Church, United States with 41 charter members gathered in the basement of the Charles Morse house. They soon moved their weekly gathering to the store front of the Morse Brothers’ Nursery, where they worshiped together for two years. During this time, the members of the congregation would meet on Friday evenings and Saturdays to build their new church building on a piece of donated land a few miles south of the nursery. The congregation moved into the completed church building in 1951.

• March 1982-The Session of Chattanooga Valley shepherded the congregation out of the PCUS (later to become the PCUSA when the Southern and Northern churches merged). On May 23, 1982 the congregation voted nearly unanimously to dissolve its relationship with the PCUS. On June 8, 1982, Chattanooga Valley Presbyterian Church was dismissed (with its property) by the Knoxville Presbytery of the PCUS and united with the Tennessee Valley Presbytery of the PCA. It should be noted that there were many who were involved in this decision who had made a similar decision thirty years earlier to plant the church and for similar reasons: to stand firmly and boldly upon the Word of God as true, inspired, infallible, and inerrant.

• 2019-We have now grown to over 170 members participating in the life of the church. We are blessed to have a diverse mix of ages and backgrounds in our congregation. A few of us have generational roots in the community, while many others are transplants to the area. Mindful of our shared inheritance of the work of those who have gone before us, CVPC continues to grow upon that hard-won foundation. We continue seeking week-by-week to be conformed to the image of God's glory and grace in Jesus Christ in our life together through worship, fellowship and service.