The beginning of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North Hills dates back to the origin of two congregations in Pittsburgh that started at least before 1880 – the Central Allegheny R.P. Church (which was located on the North Side of Pittsburgh), and the Eighth Street R.P. Church (located in what is now the Golden Triangle).  These congregations merged in 1928 to form the Central-Pittsburgh R.P. Church on the North Side, which in 1963 moved to the North Hills and built the church on Thompson Run Road where we gather for worship today.  Jim Carson, the pastor during this eventful transition, documented the story from his own diaries at the time, which you can read here:

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North Hills – North Side to Ross Township

Below is a sketch of the church building from a bulletin dated soon after the church moved to the North Hills:

The book Reformed Presbyerian Ministers gives this account of the ministers of the RPC-NH between 1950 and 1993:

NORTH HILLS, Pittsburgh PA. Pittsburgh Presbytery. Change from CENTRAL PITTSBURGH at new location 1963. Presbytery of the Alleghenies 1985. J. D. Carson 1958-73. Armstrong 1964-65. Keddie 1974-81. Curtis 1980-83. J. H. Tweed 1983-92. Kiehl 1984. T. McCracken 1986. Mann 1988, 1989.

Pastor Harry Metzger arrived from Chicago to be our pastor from the turn of the century to the present, starting on January 16, 2000.  During this decade, RPC-NH daughtered another congregation in the Pittsburgh area – the Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church of Gibsonia, PA.

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