The Reverend William Bailey, Senior Pastor.

Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines is full of interesting people. Our members come from all over the world, a variety of religious backgrounds, and have worked in just about every profession you can name. They are quick to make you feel welcome and eager to help wherever there is a need. We think you will find the Kirk a warm, welcoming place to make new friends with a wide variety of opportunities for worship, education, fellowship and service to the congregation and the community.

The Kirk is ecumenical in spirit and open to all who seek to follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which we celebrate the first Sunday of the month, is open to all who have been baptized in any branch of the universal Church. We have a service of wholeness once a quarter. Regularly we offer classes for inquirers.

Come join our search to know, love, worship and obey the living Christ!

Our History
Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines is part of the nationwide Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Presbytery of Arkansas and Synod of the Sun. In late 1980, Bob and Lil Stire moved from El Dorado AR to Hot Springs Village. Their former pastor at First Presbyterian Church in El Dorado urged them to start a Presbyterian Church in the Village. After doing the necessary paperwork and arranging for an organizing pastor, the Stires began recruiting others. Thanks to their diligence and hard work, the Kirk was chartered in May of 1981 with 60 members (the number of charter members swelled to 101 by the end of January the next year). Sunday, March 24, 1984, was ground- breaking day for the new sanctuary and fellowship hall. The first service was held on January 5, 1985.

From these drawing room beginnings, the congregation has grown to over 500 members and our well-designed facility draws community groups from all over the Village for meetings, events and musical rehearsals. Over the years we have expanded the sanctuary and narthex and added a sophisticated sound system, the beautiful memorial garden and the Fran Brown Library, which stocks 2000 books. Our ministries have grown to include a wide variety of programs and fellowship groups to help us grow in the Lord, both as a church and individually.

About the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) enjoys intercommunion and interchange of pastoral ministries with other branches of the Reformed, or Presbyterian, tradition of Christianity, and also with our first-cousins of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. If your background is Christian Reformed, Reformed Church of America, United Church of Christ, or Congregational, you will feel particularly at home with us. We are part of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, that links more than 75 million Christians in over 100 nations. Our roots spring from Reformers John Calvin (French), Ulrich Zwingli (Swiss-German), John Knox (Scottish), and many others, as well as from the pre-Reformation leaders Peter Valdes (Italian) and Jan Hus (Czech). We view the Bible as God's inspired Word-source, as guided by the Holy Spirit, for the church's life, work and mission.