Coming Soon:

• Church Planting and Evangelism Conference in 2026.

First Meeting of Berryville Bible study, July 10, 2024: Thank you for your faithful prayers! We are grateful to our faithful, Risen-Ascended-Enthroned Savior and Lord who continues to keep His promises of building His church! On July 10th, we were thankful to gather with more than 30 saints, including over 15 children, for the first meeting of our exploratory Bible study in Berryville, Virginia. The planning for this location in Berryville began as early as Summer 2023, and we have been praying with patience and expectation. Berryville, Virginia, is located 20 minutes west of Ketoctin Covenant OPC in Purcellville, Virginia, and is an ideal location with much population growth as a place central to Charlestown, West Virginia, as well as Front Royal and Winchester, Virginia.

We began our evening with a potluck supper together and fellowship. Then we enjoyed a devotion together from Isaiah 55:1-11, being reminded from God’s Word that our compassionate and forgiving God welcomes sinners to come to Him in Christ, and the importance of hearing from Him from God’s Word and seeking Him while He may be found. An important reason for establishing an exploratory Bible study is an opportunity of reaching out and welcoming sinners in Christ and learning together with all the saints the love of God in Christ, remembering that God’s word does not return empty or void, but accomplishes His powerful and good purposes (Isa. 55:11). We discussed together the ideal spiritual characteristics of an OPC seed group, and how the gospel transforms us all through God’s word and Spirit. We closed with a season of prayer together (John 14:12-14; Eph. 3:20-21).

As we explore this location to discover if this is where Jesus desires to establish another OPC congregation in the PMA, please pray that our God would call, gather, and transform this seed group as we grow together praying, studying the Book of Ephesians, and fellowshipping together. We plan to meet on the 4th Thursday of each month for our study at the Berryville Park, Clarke County Recreation Center in their Multipurpose Room at 225 Al Smith Circle, Berryville VA 22611. Please pray for your RHM, and our Home Missions and dedicated on-site ministry team as we serve this group of believers.

Please pray for us as we meet regularly together and as we invite our neighbors and friends, and plan outreaches in the community soon. We enjoyed fellowship with the saints until almost 9 pm! As we were leaving, we met a man named Nick, and we witnessed the gospel to him, prayed for him, and invited him to our study. May the LORD bring Nick, and many more folks like him to our bible study. May we see many new converts to Christ through this study and outreach!