Thursday, December 8, 2011
Holy Family Catholic Church is reaching a diverse community with a wide range of needs and issues.
One of the first things you notice upon entering Holy Family Catholic Church off Ferndale Road is a large bin for food donations to supply the parish’s food pantry. All throughout the large building are signs, posters, brochures, or people advocating caring for those in need—the elderly, shut-in, homeless, sick, hungry, and defenseless. During mass, children bring food for the hungry and give it to be blessed during the offering time. The food pantry alone feeds an average of 10 to 15 people per day, not including walk-ins who “we just can’t say no to,” said Maureen Ruongrat, who works at the pantry. You can’t talk with the Reverend Gerry Creedon very long before the conversation leads to social justice and righting the world’s wrongs—…
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Local pastor returns from trip to Ghana where people have very little and yet, he says, are always smiling.
“Everywhere you looked people were smiling,” said Doug Duty, Pastor of Potomac Crest Baptist Church. From September 15 to 27, Duty and his wife Deborah were in Ghana speaking at a conference for pastors and their wives and then ministering to a small rural town. “Six years ago, God put Africa on my heart,” Duty said. He had never thought much about Africa before, but shortly after he felt this pull on his heart a family from Ghana came to Potomac Crest and then another. Duty began to wonder if “Africa” meant “Ghana” specifically when another man started showing up and sitting in the back of the church for several weeks in a row. Then one day he asked to speak with Duty and revealed that he was a pastor from Ghana. The man, Emmanuel Osae, …
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Potomac Crest Baptist Church uses its time, resources, and talents to reach out to the many different nationalities in the community.
Seventeen different flags hang on the wall in the back of the sanctuary, each for a different nationality represented in the congregation at Potomac Crest Baptist Church off Cardinal Road. “We have had others too, but when the families move away we send the flag with them,” said James Holliday, the student ministry pastor. The church certainly has a heart for different nationalities. Their pastor, Douglas Duty just went to Ghana for a pastor’s conference, and Potomac Crest used to host a Ghanaian church in their building as well. When the Ghanaian church grew too large and moved on to its own building, Potomac Crest replaced it with a Korean church. “We are a very community-focused church,” said Holliday, who is fairly new to the church …
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
With four services, a Hispanic ministry, and many outreaches, Grace Baptist is working to reach everyone.
There are four services, three separate congregations, a homeless ministry, missionary support, an athletics ministry, counseling and various community outreaches, all under the banner of Grace Baptist Church off of Spriggs Road. This church is has a little something for almost everyone. “We are a big church with a small church feel,” said Cheryl Nester, administrative assistant at the church. The church’s welcome brochure has no fewer than ten separate brochures to explain the various ministry opportunities available, anything from orchestra and performing arts to a library ministry, multiple children programs, student ministry, meals for the homeless, and the list goes on. Every week Grace holds four services to accommodate its 700 …
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
One of the first Baptist churches in Dale City still stands overlooking the community.
Evangel Baptist Church has stood on a hill overlooking Dale Boulevard since almost the beginning of Dale City itself. Started in 1966 by Dick Gelina, the church added a Christian School three years later—something that most churches wait a while before attempting, said Greg Lambert who is chairman of the deacons. But with a growing area and few Christian schools yet, the church’s leaders decided it was a need they would fill. Lambert was in the inaugural kindergarten class at Evangel Christian School. Both he and his wife graduated from the school and all five of their children have attended, three of them also now graduated. His wife also teaches math at the school. “It’s definitely a big part of our life,” Lambert said. He said that …
Friday, April 22, 2011
Here's a list of where you can attend Good Friday services in Dale City.
A variety of churches are having Good Friday services Friday evening.
Friday, April 8, 2011
A local church is raising money to dig a well in Kenya and bring clean water to a village in need.
Water borne disease kills more children than AIDS/HIV, malaria and measles combined, killing one child every 20 seconds. In the face of such statistics by the World Health Organization, Freedom Fellowship Church on Dale Boulevard is hosting a Mission 5K fundraiser this spring to raise money to build a well in Kenya. The 5K run/walk will be held May 28 at Leesylvania State Park in Woodbridge. The church is trying to raise $13,500 to build a well—in partnership with Water 10:42 in Texas and Word of Faith Ministries in Kenya—to bring safe, clean water to a village in central Kenya. Registrations for the 5K opened this week. “It is about water… but it’s about more than water,” said FFC Pastor Kurt Wallace. Water 10:42—a non-profit devoted to …
Lizzie M. Johnson
1:37 pm on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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