April 23 Today in OPC History

On Saturday, April 23, 1977, at the Presbytery of the Northwest meeting held at Trinity OPC in Bothell, Washington, the Rev. Calvin R. Malcor was interviewed and received as a church planter in the Southern Oregon towns of Grants Pass and Medford. Earlier in the week, Cal and his family had arrived in Medford from Manhattan Beach, California, where Cal served as associate pastor of First OPC. On Friday morning, Cal and ruling elder Blanford Shores flew from Medford to Seattle to attend the meeting at Bothell, which at the time was the only organized OPC congregation in the state of Washington. During the interview for reception, Cal was joined up front by another pastor transferring into the presbytery to serve at Trinity Presbyterian in Newberg, Oregon, the Rev. John W. Mahaffy.

After forty-one years serving OPC congregations in California, Oregon, Illinois, and Michigan, Mr. Malcor retired from pastoral service in 2004. For the past two decades, however, he has remained active in the Presbytery of the Northwest, including moderating the Presbytery as recently as 2022. Such is his humble dedication to Christ and his church that in the sixty years that he has been ordained in the OPC he has only missed four stated presbytery meetings.

Picture: Cal Malcor playing the piano at a PNW meeting.