God’s Unexpected Provision'
Saturday December 5 at 5 p.m.

The Coracle Fellowship Spiritual Formation Program has existed for five years to help Christians come alive in their relationships with God–to experience a richer and fuller encounter with the love of Jesus and be fueled by that encounter towards loving, healing contact with the world.

We all need healing in some areas of our lives!:For some, it's physical; for others, a broken marriage or family relationships, addictions, recovery from emotional, physical, sexual abuse, generational sins, struggles related to sexuality, intimacy, identity, or other life issues. Come and see how biblical worship prepares the way for experiencing God's healing and wholeness in our lives!

Church of the Messiah in Chesapeake, VA is offering a four-part, Facebook-live series with Dr. Paul VanValin, professional counselor. These free sessions are open to the public and are recorded and available for viewing at your convenience. Wednesdays @ 7 p.m.

Being a human can be messy. Each of us is physical, emotional, relational, sexual, and spiritual. We carry past stories and future hopes.

In light of the tensions in our society regarding race relations, in his address to the Provincial Council, Archbishop Beach called for a Working Group on Race, Racism, and Racial Reconciliation. This group is comprised of leaders from across the Anglican Church in North America representing a diverse range of races, ethnicities, ages, orders, and both genders.

Are you or someone you know interested in learning about healing prayer?

“Restorative justice (RJ) is a way of thinking about crime that puts more emphasis on repairing the harm done by the offender to the victim and community than on punishing the offender.”

And it was done virtually. Laying on of hands, yes from afar. Voices praying, yes but from afar. Touching of hands, yes but not a physical touch but a spiritual touch. I felt a sense of peace like no other, a sense of His presence, and a stirring of my spirit.

More than Charlottesville, more than Richmond, perhaps more than any other place in Virginia, Emporia would appear on the surface to be a place ripe for violent protests.

Join us for the weekly Wednesday Healing Prayer Class - now in its 15th year. This is a unique opportunity to learn about praying for physical, emotional and spiritual healing with hands on training in small groups.

Church of the Holy Spirit will in conjunction with One Church Loudoun as we have an opportunity as believers in Jesus and the Christ-centered Church in Loudoun to come together to simply worship our Lord together and humbly call out to Him.

Have you felt a deep desire to cultivate a deeper intimacy with and love for God this season, as outbreaks and civil unrest rock our country? Do you want to come to a richer understanding of how the beautiful tradition of our faith can speak and bring healing to the brokenness we see all around us?

During day one of the ACNA’s 2020 virtual Provincial Council, Abp. Foley Beach’s address focused on casting his expansive vision for the ACNA’s response to racism, racial tensions, and racial reconciliation. 

Albert Thompson spoke on the “Witness of the Church in a Time of National Crisis.” Albert is a historian, writing his doctoral dissertation on the influence of the New Deal and WWII on Jim Crow and race in America. His presentation on race and America is a clear, sobering, thoughtful and ultimately, hopeful consideration of this important subject.

Our friends at Coracle are providing a service of lament on June 19th (Juneteenth) from 3-4pm broadcast from Corhaven Graveyard (a burial ground for enslaved persons in the Shenandoah Valley). We hope you will consider joining to listen, lament, and pray. Register here.

Rock Recovery is a ministry based in Arlington, VA that provides clinical and community programs for people with eating disorders.

Like many experiences of great stress in our lives, this coronavirus season will make us better Christians or worse ones, but it won’t leave us unaffected. We will either trust the Lord more or we will give fear a greater hold on our hearts. We will either press in to Jesus or we will drift further away. We will come to realize how much we need in-person Christian community or we will conclude we do just fine by tuning in occasionally online.  

As God’s creation, we long to be loved and known by our Creator and those he’s given us to do life with. Because we live in a fractured world, this isn’t always easy. Oftentimes, we find ourselves going through life with broken hearts and broken images – of ourselves and God