McCree v. Walker

Terry Crabtree, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order upholding the validity of a church meeting at which a majority of the congregation voted to dismiss appellant, Robert McCree, as their interim pastor. Appellant contends on appeal that the trial court’s decision is clearly against the preponderance of the evidence. We disagree and affirm.

This case involves a dispute within the New Mount Hebron Baptist Church in Camden, Arkansas. In April 2000, the church’s pastor and seventy-one of its members left to form a new, non-Baptist church. At that time, a majority of the congregation voted that…