Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church: the PCA congregation

ACTIVE BY 2012 · 14567 CLEVELAND ROAD

Howard's Presbyterian line has no traced heir, but the Presbyterian faith has a modern seat on the ground on its own documented terms: Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church, at 14567 Cleveland Road, is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America — the branch named in the University of Notre Dame's worship directory, in the PCA's own prayer guides, and in the congregation's own officer-training materials, which style it "Michiana Covenant PCA, Granger IN." The congregation describes itself by the Acts 2:42 pattern — devotion to the preaching of the Word, the sacraments, the fellowship of believers, and prayer — and its documented life in the record begins with its officer-training class of 2012–13, preparing elders and deacons under Dr. Peter J. Wallace, the church's pastor, an Orthodox Presbyterian minister serving the congregation as stated supply in the denominational press's description, and a Notre Dame-trained church historian. Wallace and the congregation left one mark on the wider Reformed world that the record carries at full strength: when the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the United Reformed Churches built their joint Psalter-Hymnal, the project's composition subcommittee adopted as its starting point the psalm list created by Dr. Wallace and the members and friends of Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church in Granger — a small congregation's years of psalm-singing homework becoming the base text of two denominations' songbook. The Story of Granger section counts a Michiana Covenant Academy among the place's private schools; the tie between the academy and this congregation is the natural reading of the shared name and ground but is not stated in any record this section read first-hand, and it is printed as unverified, for the Schools section to settle from the school's own record. The congregation's founding year likewise does not appear in the record reached: it is a named gap, settler: the records of the PCA's regional presbytery and the congregation's own history.

Sources:

1. Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church, the congregation's own record (michianacovenant.org) — the Acts 2:42 self-description; "Officer Training Class, Michiana Covenant PCA, Granger IN" (2012–13), Dr. Peter J. Wallace.
2. University of Notre Dame, Campus Ministry places-of-worship directory — "Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA)," 14567 Cleveland Rd, Granger.
3. New Horizons (Orthodox Presbyterian Church), March 2014, and the OPC's Committee on Christian Education feature — Wallace as stated supply at the Granger church, and the Psalter-Hymnal subcommittee's adoption of the Wallace–Michiana Covenant psalm list as its starting point.
4. Mid-America Reformed Seminary, Messenger, June 2026 — a seminarian's field placement at "Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA), Granger, Indiana."