Cross-country Update 6: Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Central Virginia

After Louisville, we continued east till we arrived in Virginia. We were able to visit several friends and pastors on the East Coast.

Our first stop was Haymarket, VA where we were privileged to worship with Piedmont Bible Church on Sunday, October 18th. PBC is where TMS alum John Chester serves as pastor. John connected with Grace Advance to plant this church in 2012. It was very encouraging to see what the Lord is doing with PBC and to hear the testimonies of how the expository preaching taking place is affecting the lives of the members there.

After the Sunday morning worship and a wonderful lunch with John, his wife Cassandra, and members of PBC, we headed north to Baltimore, MD where we had a few minutes to sit with David and Marleah Mora, members of Hope Bible Church. David is a graduate of The Master's Seminary and currently serves at HBC often teaching Bible studies and one day seminars.  Our relationship with this couple stretches back to Adam's beginning years of seminary and working in the security department of The Master's College. We are grateful for their encouragement to us and their friendship.

Our day ended with a stop in Purcellville, VA where we met up with Dave and Ann Jordan. Dave is a TMS alum and now pastors Grace Bible Church and has since September 2013. Dave caught us up on what it is like pastoring in Purcelleville and the joys and challenges of church revitalization. Dave was one of Adam's main examples in seminary of godliness and hard work. As can be seen, the Northern Virginia and Baltimore areas have many men serving the Lord in pastoral ministry and we pray that the Gospel will spread throughout these areas with the many churches that are committed to expository preaching established there.

We are in our final week in the U.S. before catching a flight across the pond to London. Pray for us as we continue to prepare ourselves to serve in GraceLife London. Please continue to pray with us for financial support as we are around 33% of what we need for this first year. The Lord will provide what we need.