Pastoral Letter for a Faithful Church May 19, 2022 Dear Church Family, It's been a horrific week, probably not for you, but for many people around the country (and the world).While we continue to pray for peace in the Ukraine, perhaps we're not praying often enough for peace here in our own country.In just the first half of May, there have been 33 mass shootings in ...

PastoralLetterfrom Timo Sazo, July 16, 2021 Greetings, brothers and sisters! I hope you all are well and enjoying the summer season. I joined the church staff as a pastoral intern in March. In case you don't know, the purpose of an internship in our denomination is to give pastoral candidates an opportunity to observe, participate in, and reflect on a church's min...

PastoralLetterfor a Faithful Church June 11, 2021 Dear friends, Last week I sent you a schedule of how we're going to further reopen the church, noting that we were going to do it incrementally over several months.We've received a number of comments and concerns over this plan.We've had people who think we should continue social distancing and mask requirements; ot...

Pastoral Letter for a Faithful Church June 4, 2021 Dear friends, Well, last month I wrote and promised to let you know when we would be able to make some adjustments to our Sunday schedule. Finally! This is that letter. We have spent some time figuring out how best to "finish" reopening and we're going to do it incrementally as we move through the summer. Al...

Pastoral Letter for a Faithful Church May 15, 2021 Dear friends, Exactly one year ago today I wrote my 10th Pastoral Letter of the pandemic to announce that we were going to resume in-person worship in June (of 2020). At that time, I pleaded with everyone to extend grace to each other even as we are, Philippians 1:27b, "standing firm in one spirit, with...

PastoralLetterfor a Faithful Church January 10, 2021 Dear friends, Below are the remarks I made this morning regarding the danger of spiritual immaturity: I did want to address this week's events at the Capitol.I rarely speak publicly about such events, and when I do, I invariably upset someone. However, this one was unique in that it more publicly involved prof...

PastoralLetterfor a Distributed Church November 20, 2020 Dear friends, It's been two months since my last letter and we're finishing up our sermon series on "Misused Stories of the Bible." We've looked at Cain, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, David, Naaman, Daniel, Judas, The Lord's Supper, the Adulterous Woman, The Rich Fool, and Rev. Wang will finish up with Zacchaeus.I hop...

PastoralLetterfor a Distributed Church September 19, 2020 Dear friends, It's been a month since my last letter and we're a few weeks into our new sermon series on "Misused Stories of the Bible."We've looked at Cain, Rahab, and Gideon (tomorrow) with Samson, David, Naaman, and Daniel still to come. I hope it's helped you to see what the real main point of these storie...

Pastoral Letter for a Distributed Church August 22, 2020 Dear friends, It's been three weeks since my last letter (yeah for vacations) and I wanted to update you on some upcoming events and changes for this fall.We have been restarting our ministries in an incremental fashion this summer with good results. We have restarted the Nurseryduri...

Dear Potomac Hills family, It is with deep sorrow that I have to tell you that we have lost another member of our church family. Jon Thompson went home to be with his beloved Lord and Savior Jesus Christ this morning -- passing away this morning. As you know, Jon suffered congestive heart failure on Wednesday, and while the hospital did all it could, the Lord has interven...