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Dear Church Family, This coming Sunday, August 27th, at 9:15-10:15 am, in the sanctuary, we’ll resume our Sunday school class in the Westminster Larger Catechism. We’ll pick up where we left off with Question 57. Even if you haven’t attended before, you can still easily jump in on this study. Materials will be provided for…

Dear Church Family, Even though it doesn’t seem as though the heat is letting up, the summer season is starting to wind down and students are beginning to get ready to head back to school. So, I thought that it would be a good time to announce and describe some of the ministries that will…

Dear Church Family, We have returned from our extended family vacation which included many twists and turns and putting about 4,000 additional miles on our van. Our trip began with attending the 50th General Assembly of our denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, in Memphis, TN (I’ll provide some information about that below). After General…

Dear Church Family, In our Men’s and Women’s Discipleship Groups, we studied the Gospel according to John over the past year on Wednesday nights. At the end of the study, we decided to combine the Men’s and Women’s groups to answer some specific questions that were submitted by those in the study. Two weeks ago,…

Dear Church Family, In our Men’s and Women’s Discipleship Groups, we studied the Gospel according to John over the past year on Wednesday nights. At the end of the study, we decided to combine the Men’s and Women’s groups to answer some specific questions that were submitted by those in the study. Last week we…

Dear Church Family, In our Men’s and Women’s Discipleship Groups, we studied the Gospel according to John over the past year on Wednesday nights. At the end of the study, we decided to combine the Men’s and Women’s groups to answer specific questions that were submitted by those in the study. The first question pertained…

Dear Church Family, At the beginning of the month, we had the wonderful privilege as a congregation to participate in the baptism of Madeline Brenneman, the daughter of Trevor and Mariah Brenneman. Whenever we partake of the sacrament of baptism in the church, I like to take the opportunity to speak about the meaning of…

Dear Church Family, This past Sunday, we began a new sermon series in the Gospel according to Mark. If you weren’t present – or would like to review the sermon – the audio recording is available on the church website here: https://hillcountrypca.org/all-sermons/. As I mentioned on Sunday, we’re going to spend probably 4-5 sermons in…

Dear Church Family, It’s only the middle of August, but the summer seems to be coming to a close already as kids head back to school and people’s schedules start changing once again. In our family, three of our four children will be departing this week. Stephen and Lydia are heading back to college. Titus…

Dear Church Family, For the last couple of weeks, there has been an announcement in the bulletin regarding the officer training class that I will be teaching on Monday evenings at our home, beginning on September 12th. Herein, I wish to give an exhortation (and reasoning) for all the men in the church to sign…