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Coolspring Presbyterian Church hosts New Castle Presbytery

Maj. Gen. Frank Vavala, adjutant general of the Delaware National Guard, receives a wooden cutout of Coolspring Presbyterian Church from the Rev. Susannah Tulloch, church pastor. Tulloch is a Delaware Air National Guard captain and chaplain. “What do you give a general who already has everything?” Tulloch asked before giving Vavala the cutout. BY HENRY J. EVANS JR.
Henry J. Evans Jr.
October 3, 2012
The Rev. Susannah Tulloch is shown with Lt. Col. Ed Brandt, U.S. Army National Guard, chaplain for Delaware. Brandt has been a chaplain for 23 years. He’s been in chaplaincy full time since 2002, following his deployment to Iraq. Brandt said chaplains from the military’s different branches have outstanding working relationships. “We have basically Protestant and Catholic chaplains, although we service soldiers, sailors and airmen from all walks of life - Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Wiccan and Buddhist. It’s a joy because they’re all different people,” Brandt said.
Shown are (l-r) Coolspring Presbyterian Church parishioners George Lynch, Jim Burd, Steve Wilz, the Rev. Susannah Tulloch and Austin Short. Tulloch, a Lewes resident, is Coolspring Presbyterian Church pastor. She is also a captain and chaplain in the Delaware Air National Guard.

About 200 Presbyterian Church members recently gathered at Coolspring Presbyterian Church for a meeting of the New Castle Presbytery.

Jim Moseley, New Castle Presbytery executive presbyter, said the presbytery comprises Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore, containing 52 congregations. He said the area has about 10,000 constituents.

Moseley said in 1681, the Rev. Francis McKemmie arrived in this area, and by 1683 he had begun establishing churches.

“In the New Castle Presbytery, we have a cluster of the oldest congregations of Presbyterianism in the United States,” Moseley said.

He said the recent meeting is one of five being held this year.

“The meetings are for the purpose of empowering ministries and missions. We also have nominations of people to serve on our committees and commissions.

“We worship at each and every meeting; we receive guests who are sometimes overseas missionary workers and who are sometimes from other agencies or different denominational groups. We build fellowships,” Moseley said.

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