Formed in 1981 with the merger of Carter Memorial Assyrian Presbyterian Church, located in Chicago, and Westminster Presbyterian Church, located in Skokie, this congregation of 300 members is revitalizing and growing.
According to Church staff, the congregation is racially diverse and intergenerational, and caters to the youth through its Sunday School and youth programs, as well as a strong music program to enhance worship.
The Evanshire Presbyterian Church began in a storefront location on the corner of Niles Center Road and Church Street when the area was still a prairie. It was 1954, and a dozen Skokie families who were looking for a home church had accepted the invitation of a seminary student to begin a new fellowship. No one is quite sure where the 'Evanshire' part of the name comes from, but the congregation is alive and well all these years later, having moved far beyond the storefront and into the Skokie establishment.