Beloved in Christ, Due to the rising case, transmission, and positivity rates of COVID-19 in Loudoun County, the session has decided it is prudent to reinstate a mask requirement for in-person worship, effective this week, Sunday, [...]
Beloved in Christ, It has been a long time - fourteen months, in fact - since we closed the church building due to the pandemic. In all this time, we have maintained our ministries of [...]
It's still technically March as this is going up. Anyway, here's lots of news and points of interest! Click the link to download. 2021 March Newsletter.docx
The following was sent to the congregation on January 7, 2021. Beloved in Christ, Yesterday I was stunned, as I'm sure you were, to watch as a mob breached the United States Capitol in [...]
In 1918 the world was in the grip of a global pandemic. On Christmas Eve that year, one church offered a simple service where the Christmas story was proclaimed in nine scripture lessons with carols [...]
photo by elly fairytale for pexels.com For most people and in most years, Christmas is a "joy time." There are lots of parties, bright lights, cheerful carols, festive decorations, and gatherings of friends [...]
A team of our church members has been participating in a program from PneuMatrix, a consulting company that works with congregations and church governing bodies, teaching them about adaptive change and leadership. We've been at [...]
Beloved in Christ, Garrison Keilor used to say on A Prairie Home Companion, “It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town.” Well, not around here these days! It’s been anything but quiet, [...]
Beloved in Christ, Our nation is in real turmoil, as you surely know. The "original sin of the United States," systemic racism, has brought us to a boiling point once more. People are protesting in [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed how we are working as a church, as a society, and as global citizens. In spite of all the hardships and suffering caused by the disease, we continue to [...]