
Sovereign Grace Ministries, a family of local churches, provides care and oversight to pastors and produces books, audio recordings of biblical teaching, and music for worship. It also hosts conferences and a pastors college.
around the gospel, relationships, the Bible, the Holy Spirit's empowering work and serving one another and the world BackThe Holy Spirit is essential to our faith and for giving us the power to live for Jesus and serve his purposes for us. We have experienced all the gifts that he gave the Christians of the church of the New Testament in our church life today.
around us. BackIf anything describes us, it's the gospelthe good news of God sending his Son to the earth. Jesus taught the character and ways of God, died on a cross, and rose from the dead. The effect? Anyone who believes in him can have Jesus' death count for theirs and escape God's judgment for their failure to obey him. There is no greater expression of the justice, love and mercy of God than the crucifixion of the Savior. This is the love that informs our service and our life together as a church.
BackChurch is more than a place or a meeting. Church is a family of people who agree to walk together under Jesus' grace and rule. Though we come from a wide variety of backgrounds, our fellowship goes beyond our meetings as we seek to live out our new life together.
BackFor us the Bible, though an ancient book, is the very Word of God and rightly understood contains all we need to know God and to understand his will for our lives. We value hearing the Bible taught and the private reading and application Scripture to our everyday lives.
Here's what you can expect on a Sunday.
Children
We take the care of children very seriously—both for their safety and to provide the with age-appropriate training. We offer care for infants, toddlers and pre-school aged children during our entire Sunday morning service and specialized instruction in the Bible for children kindergarten through sixth grade during the sermon portion of our meeting.
Fellowship Groups are small gatherings of our adult members. We meet in homes and seek to develop relationships that involve knowing God and applying His word to our lives.
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Lightswitch is our ministry to young adults—those who are in college or beginning a career—both younger singles and couples new to marriage or parenting. We meet together twice per month as well as in smaller groups for regular fellowship.
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Our teen ministry takes its theme from 1 Timothy 4:12. We believe the teen years can be a vibrant time of growth and purposeful living for the glory of God. One of the distinctives of our youth ministry is the high degree of parental involvement.
(for teens and their parents), and periodic seminars. We also provide members a home school support program.
John Loftness, Senior Pastor, has been a pastor since 1981, most of that time at Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD. John came to be Solid Rock's pastor in September of 2007. John and his wife Nancy have four children—three married and one living at home with them.
Michael Dickson, Associate Pastor, grew up in Prince Georges County. He and his wife Karen came to Solid Rock in 1993. He is a graduate of the Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastors College and has served on our staff since 1998. He oversees our worship, youth ministry and small groups. He and Karen have five children who live at home with them.
Curtis Allen, Assistant Pastor, grew up in Washington DC Metropolitan area. God rescued Curt from the consequences of a life of street crime and gave him a desire to serve as a pastor. After seven years at Covenant Life Church three of them spent as a ministry intern, Curt attended the Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastors College, graduating in June of 2008. Curt oversees Lightswitch, our ministry to young adults. He and his wife Betsy have one young son.
you and introducing you to our church. Here are meeting times and directions. BackSundays, 10:00 a.m.
Location: 5401 Good Luck Rd., Riverdale, MD.
Directions: From I-495, the Capital Beltway, take exit 23 Kenilworth Ave. / Rte. 201 south. After two miles turn left on Good Luck Rd. (note: to your right is Paint Branch Pkwy at the same intersection). After the turn our building is immediately on the right.
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