June 3 Today in OPC History

On June 3, 2000, Amoskeag Presbyterian Church in Manchester, New Hampshire, was received as a new and separate congregation of the Presbytery of New York and New England (PNYNE). The Rev. Gregory Reynolds was installed as pastor and George Garneau and Andrew Sharpe were installed as ruling elders. The mission was born in September 1996 as a Bible study with 6-12 people who had been gathered through advertising. Mr. Reynolds, who was living in Manchester and serving as Regional Home Missionary for the PNYNE, led the studies. In January 1997, public worship began and that April, the PNYNE designated the group a mission work, and received its first fifteen members. Amoskeag is a Penacook-Algonquin Indian word meaning "one who catches small fish." The church's building is near Amoskeag Falls, where the original Indian inhabitants of what is now Manchester caught their fish.

Picture: Charles Wingard, Greg and Robin Reynolds, January, 10, 1997