Hunter considered that this ruling had unacceptable implications for his freedom to support the battle for orthodoxy in the future and so resigned his membership of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in July 1927. In October of that year the Irish Evangelical Church came into being.
The new church quickly grew, with congregations formed, mainly around the Greater Belfast area. In 1964 the name of the Church was changed to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, a title which more accurately reflects our stance.
Since then we have undergone many changes, periods of encouragement & discouragement. Our hope is that we serve the same Lord, who is “the same yesterday, today and forever”, and that “he is building his Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her”!