History
The NWAC held its third convocation in February 2007, where it considered its future relationship with the PC(USA). At this meeting, the NWAC unanimously voted to petition the EPC to create a non-geographic, transitional New Wineskins presbytery (NWEPC) for those churches wishing to leave the PC(USA). The EPC voted overwhelmingly to form the new presbytery at its own General Assembly in June 2007. Now it is expected that the New Wineskins congregations will be received into the EPC and some already have made the transition.
As of December 2007, many of the congregations that comprise the NWAC are still officially affiliated with the PC(USA), but it is expected that those congregations that wish to will soon formally separate from that church and join the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), by joining the New Wineskins Presbytery (NWEPC) which met for the first time in October 2007.
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