Margaret Thompson Cobourg Presbytery extends from the Lake Ontario shoreline north to Rice Lake, and from Hope Township on the west, eastward to the Northumberland Hastings County boundary. The area offers magnificant rural scenery, picturesque rolling hills, lakeshore vistas, productive farmland and well-kept orchards. Its heritage and culture are well preserved in the towns of Brighton, Campbellford, Cobourg and Port Hope, as well as many villages and hamlets. The Presbytery includes the Big Apple in Colborne, the Waterfront Trail and the home of World's Finest Chocolates. There are twenty-nine congregations worshipping and witnessing in the fifteen pastoral charges.
Many churches are heritage buildings that have been upgraded.
Cobourg Presbytery is the home of the Mississauga First Nations People who reside at Alderville on the south shore of Rice Lake. The Cobourg Presbytery stole of worship, crafted of doeskin by Pamela Gray and featuring Native and Christian symbolism was present to the Presbytery by John Crow in 1987. Youth and children offer gifts of music, drama and special services in worship. Vacation Bible School and United We're Awesome Events have been dynamic. Doris Buttar and the Rev.