Looking for a way to give this Advent? The Anglican Relief and Development Fund (ARDF) is working to provide clean water to rural communities in Burundi and you can get alongside them. What is the Anglican Relief and Development Fund? ARDF partners with the global church to meet the needs of the poor. The […]
So how do I connect with God, others and the needs of the world? I go to church I attend a small group And..what – is there more? Over the last five years at Restoration we have sought to listen very deliberately to God’s voice and to be careful about the choices we make about investing […]
This trimester one of the small groups on offer is Christianity Explored. We’re going through the Gospel of Mark to answer three big questions: 1. Who was Jesus? 2. What did he say and do? 3. Why does it matter? We’ll first establish whether Mark is worth reading from a historical standpoint at all (spoiler […]
Hey Restoration, As David said on Sunday, the Bridging the Gap team is gearing up for another year of outreach to Washington-Lee High School. Specifically, we’ll be teaming up with some folks from Young Life to intentionally get to know students, establish a presence there, and ultimately work towards forming a club on campus. Here […]
From July 5 to 11, 2014, six persons from Restoration (Endel Liias, Kate Raymond, and the Wallin family) joined with 14 members of Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church in Boston on a mission trip to Cochabamba, Bolivia. The purpose of the trip was twofold: (1) To learn about Niños con Valor (NCV) and engage with […]
Hey Restoration, Over the last year, the Bridging the Gap team has been getting together to pray and brainstorm about ways that we can love our local high school, Washington-Lee. We’ve also spent a significant amount of time on the campus volunteering for their basketball and baseball games and getting to know folks in the […]
The picture below is of a cross from a church in Ephesus. The city is now abandoned, and was only excavated around 100 years ago: its river silted up so that the sea was no longer close to the former trading hub; and earthquakes had damaged the city. Psalm 52: 8 – “But i am […]
Our Thursday in I was full. Full of everything that a day can be filled with. We were tourists in a new place looking to explore with a purpose. This sent us to an afternoon prayer walk. We walked and walked and stopped for lunch and Turkish coffee. We walked some more and stopped for […]
When we started coming to Restoration, our first small group leaders were Jesse and Sarah Blaine.About ten of us met weekly in their tiny Arlington apartment – young singles, newly marrieds, married with kids (us), and empty nesters. Jesse’s roguish passion and Sarah’s amiable charm put us at ease and challenged us to take this […]
DID YOU KNOW… there are more Bolivians living in northern Virginia than anywhere else in the world outside of Bolivia?! Well now you do 🙂 AND…do you by chance have a heart for Latin American immigrants and culture? (and speaka da Spanish or Spanglish??) Well even if you don’t meet any of these criteria, we’d […]