A post from our Children’s Ministry Director, Louise Brooks: Yippee! It’s time! New pencils! New markers! New crayons! New teachers! Same merciful, gracious, compassionate God! Children’s Ministry kicks off a new season on September 12 with joy and anticipation. We are excited to have wonderful teachers who are committed to our vision of growing our […]
Church, Sunday Corporate Worship 2
Sunday is going to be a great day! For the last 70 years, the people of Trinity Baptist Church have been faithfully worshiping God together here on North Quincy Street.. For the last 2 years, they have been gracious hosts to Restoration as we’ve undertaken the adventure of planting a new church. We are grateful […]
Community, Getting Involved, Life Together, Retreats 2
A post from Connally Gilliam, an active member of Restoration: Last year was Restoration’s first church-wide retreat, and I – one who often speaks at retreats but secretly never really likes going to them – well…I liked it! It was, for lack of a more profound word: good. Seriously. Fun, solid, real, good – showing […]
On September 15, 2010 at 7:30pm, Erin Bair will be made a transitional Deacon in the Anglican Communion by Bishop John Guernsey at Restoration Anglican Church. That is a mouthful! I am so excited for Erin and so proud of the way she has walked this journey. It has been a long road from The […]
Life Together, Outreach, Sunday Corporate Worship 3
Well, yesterday was an adventure, wasn’t it? A suddenly and inexplicably malfunctioning projector meant that we were without song lyrics, sermon slides, or the congregation’s part of the liturgy. But a heroic effort by Matt Hoppe and the worship team (Bethany Hoang and Ian Hassell), and a lightning-fast trip to Kinko’s by Samantha Burg, kept […]
That’s our Retreat speaker riding a ‘fixie’ around his neighborhood in Austin. Gideon is a good friend from my days in Austin, TX. He and I were both leading ministries that focused on students at the University of Texas. We also cared about the local body of Christ, multi-ethnicity, and partnership in God’s Kingdom. He […]
Last week, I had the privilege of attending the annual CANA Council with Restoration’s other representatives–David Hanke, Richard Hines, and Ramsey Wilson. One of the highlights was Bishop Martyn Minns’s annual Pastoral Call to all the CANA churches. Restoration got a special shout-out, and Bishop Minns put forward a bold vision for what it means […]
Many of you know my dear friend, Patrick Ware. We both attended Gordon-Conwell and then he and I were the first “Timothy’s” at The Falls Church from 2006-2009. Patrick and Jordan (his wife) planted Winchester Anglican Church this past year. The church is having a big impact on that community. I’m really proud of him. […]
“May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 15: 5-6 This is what I have been praying for myself this week as […]
Community, Life Together, Outreach 1
The West Virginia team returned on Sunday evening after an amazing five days working and living and having fun together in the town of Philippi. Here’s a report from Liz Gray, Restoration’s outreach coordinator and — as it turns out — Bananagrams player extraordinaire. Come to our outreach fun night tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6:30 to […]
