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Blood Drive
Burke Presbyterian Church is hosting a blood drive on Saturday, December 9, from 7:00 to 11:00am. The INOVA bloodmobile will be parked in our parking lot. This drive is open to neighbors and community members. Book your appointment today! Schedule it online or call 1-866-256-6372 and use code 1049. Questions? Please contact the church office at 703-764-0456 or office@BurkePresChurch.org.
Leaves of Grace
Leaves of Grace is BPC’s book group, which gathers on Zoom once a month, usually on the third Sunday at 3:00pm. All are welcome! Bring a friend! Each month, the group discusses a book that they’ve selected together. Discussions for popular titles are scheduled so that people have time to borrow from a friend or reserve the book through the public library’s hold process. Here are a few of the books they read in the fall of 2023: Hamnet by…
Tuesday Morning Bible Study
This study group selects a book of the Bible, and then they read and discuss it a few verses or a chapter at a time. Space for silence is welcome, and there is no deadline to finish. Also, no prerequisites, and no homework! They meet most Tuesday mornings from 10:00 to 11:00am, in the BPC Library and on Zoom. All are welcome! For more information, contact Sherrie Brady via the church office (703-764-0456 or office@BurkePresChurch.org).
Nothing Better
“Nothing Better” is the first sermon in our October sermon series, The Path of Freedom. Philippians 3:4b-14 If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains I had, these I have…
Worship (9:00 & 11:15 am), Sunday School (10:15)
Join us for a worship service on Sunday morning, at 9:00am or 11:15am. Sunday School happens between services, 10:15-11:00am. Worship at 9:00 am and 11:15 am Sunday School for all ages at 10:15 am For more information, please contact the church office at 703-764-0456 or office@BurkePresChurch.org.
BPC to host CROP Hunger Walk
Burke Presbyterian Church will host the 31st Burke/Fairfax CROP Hunger Walk on November 5, 2023. Last year, over 280 walkers participated, raising over $32,000 to alleviate hunger locally and globally. Register for the walk Details about the walk Make a donation You can support the CROP Hunger Walk and local restaurants by participating in one of our fundraisers. Check our events calendar for dates, times, and locations.
Trunk or Treat
Please join us for Trunk or Treat, an annual event sponsored by our BPC Preschool. All are welcome! There are lots of ways to participate. You can sign up to decorate a trunk (and hand out candy), enter your favorite chili in the cookoff, and/or bring your children and grandchildren to enjoy the festivities, which will include a bounce house. Want to sign up? Need more information? Please contact the BPC Preschool Office at preschooloffice@BurkePresChurch.org or 703-250-1823.
Visit with The Firefly House
Our congregation is participating in an interreligious effort to build understanding and unity across faiths, part of the Interreligious Communities Project Northern Virginia/Washington DC with Sharing Sacred Spaces and local host Rumi Forum. We are all invited, along with our six partner faith communities, to a site visit with The Firefly House. This Wiccan community will welcome us at the McLaren-Sargent Pavilion at Lake Accotink Park with tea, snacks, and warm hospitality. We’ll learn the story and heart of their…
The Path of Freedom
2024 Stewardship Campaign Make Your Financial Pledge to Support BPC in 2024 The very nature of God is giving. From creation to Christ, the story is the same: Because God so loves this world, God gives. This year our Stewardship theme is The Path of Freedom. Our Bible readings in worship will take us on a journey through Exodus. There, we discover the shocking generosity of God. Manna for today. Always enough. There, we also confront our human susceptibility to…
Celebration of Life
A service celebrating the life and resurrection of Bruce Allan Ross, who died on September 23, will be held at Burke Presbyterian Church on Monday, October 16, 2023 at 2:00pm. In Christ we do not grieve as those without hope. Our hope is in the Lord of the resurrection. In life and in death, we belong to God. Please contact the church office (703-764-0456 or office@BurkePresChurch.org) with any questions.
Letters from our pastors
October 1, 2023 To my beloved friends of BPC, As of this afternoon, I have been voted in to be the next pastor of Congregational Presbyterian Church in Lewiston, Idaho. My last day at BPC will be Sunday, October 29. I am leaving because I believe God has called me to this church, Julia and I have wanted to be closer to my family on the West Coast, and if I’ve learned one lesson from my time as your pastor…
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
About this sermon series Mark 2:1-12 2 When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door, and he was speaking the word to them. 3 Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and…