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Our Interim Time

Rock Spring Senior Pastor Chuck Wildman retired in April 2008 after 19 years of service, ushering in a new and exciting time in Rock Spring’s history.

Contacting the Interim team

If you have questions on Our Interim Time, please feel free to contact the Interim Team via email at interimteam@rockspringucc.org.

Meet Doug Griffin

A warm Rock Spring welcome to the Reverend Douglas L. Griffin. Rev. Griffin has accepted the position of Intentional Interim Pastor, guiding the congregation towards the selection of our new Senior Pastor. Doug has served in intentional interim ministry in the Central Atlantic Conference since 1992, guiding six congregations during their interim time. Doug will begin his ministry at Rock Spring on July 7, 2008. We hope you will all introduce yourselves to Doug when he arrives and wish him a big Rock Spring welcome. During this period, please remember to wear your name tag to help Doug, and our many visitors, feel welcome and become familiar with our Rock Spring UCC family.

Special Interim Report of the Strategic Planning Committee:

Please click here to download a copy of the report in PDF format.

The Church Profile Survey

We would like to thank the more than 225 responders to the survey! The initial report on the survey is below. With the feedback received at our first listening session, more “cross-tab” analysis in in process.  Look for future reports to appear on this page.

Please click here for the summary report in PDF format shared at the 1/11/2009 listening session.

RSS UCC Daily Readings

  • Finding
    Today's reflection by Bill Green: We have within us traces of divine love and strength. These come to light in our relationships with one another when something of the spirit of Christ breaks through guarded habits and fixed dispositions. […]
  • Swim Toward the Vortex
    Today's reflection by Donna Schaper: Time after time we forget the dry ground and think we are drowning. Time after time, we forget what the stones of our ancestors mean, which is that Israel was first bound, then free. […]
  • Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones?
    Today's reflection by Kenneth Samuel: As the children of Israel pressed toward their long-anticipated future, God instructed them to take up the stones of their past and tell the next generation about where they had been . . . and how they got over. […]

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Service Times:

June 14 to Sept. 6, 2009:
10:00am

September 13 to June 2010:
9:00am & 11:00am

We're Located At:

5010 Little Falls Road
Arlington, VA 22205

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