Apr 18, 2019 | News & Info, Alexandria District Lay Leader
Last month I wrote on what’s going to happen at the Special General Conference 2019 … well … it happened! Remember some of the key cautionary phrases from Rev. Ian Markham … “They will turn it into this side won and this side lost They’ll probably emphasize...
Apr 15, 2019 | News & Info, Arlington DS Notes
“Our life is not willed by God to be an endless anxiety. It is, rather, meant to be an embrace, but that entails being caught by God…Lent is about noticing our blindness and seeing differently. I invite you, during this Lent, to see differently…You will, when you...
Apr 15, 2019 | News & Info
Tim Ward will serve as the new Arlington District Church Development Coordinator starting on July 1. Tim is an elder in Full Connection in the Virginia Conference. Tim will continue to serve as the pastor of Restoration Church in Reston. Restoration is a site of...
Apr 15, 2019 | News & Info, Alexandria DS Notes
“He is the image of the invisible God.” COLOSSIANS 1:13 (NRSV) Everything I had heard about black holes led me to think that black holes were invisible. Physicists and astronomers had ways of knowing that the black holes were there, but the way they knew was based on...
Apr 15, 2019 | News & Info, Alexandria District Lay Leader
As Holy Week approaches, we have the sense of peering into the Holy of Holies where high priests long ago came into the presence of God on behalf of their people. In this week and those following, we remember the passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord...