We are happy to announce that the Lord has supplied us with a pastor for our work at Christ Church D.C. Brooks Potteiger and his wife Laura will be moving to Babylon this summer, with their family, and Brooks will be taking on the responsibility of shepherding our congregation of saints there. We are most grateful for the Lord’s provision in all of this, and would ask you all to continue to pray that this work would continue to flourish and grow. It may even happen that Brooks will be given some opportunities to witness to our protesters there.
As the work in D.C. is a church service of Christ Church here in Moscow, and not yet an official church plant, this means that Brooks will be coming on staff with Christ Church here in Moscow to serve as an assistant pastor together with us, with his assigned responsibility being the work in D.C.
I have had the privilege of preaching at Pilgrim Hill several times, where Brooks was the founding pastor, and it is a vibrant and healthy congregation. The one challenging aspect of all of this is the loss of Brooks’ ministry there, a loss that they will feel acutely. But we are trusting God that this blessing for the D.C. work will be accompanied with a corresponding blessing for Pilgrim Hill. For those of you who have been kind enough to be praying for the D.C. work, we would ask that you would also pray with us for God’s blessing on Pilgrim Hill as they conduct their pastoral search.
If you would like to support the crucial and strategic work in D.C., you can do that here. For those of you who have supported us thus far, we are most grateful. You got us to this point.
And here is a brief bio for Brooks:
“The grandson of African missionaries, Brooks Potteiger has served God’s church from Florida to California and in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. For the last five years Brooks has served as the pastor of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a CREC church in Tennessee. He has received Masters degrees in Christian Apologetics and Pastoral Care and Counseling. He enjoys live-edge woodworking, photography, the poetry of George Herbert, the sturdy theology of the Puritans, the creative destruction of a chainsaw, and the convulsive belly laughs that accompany G.K. Chesterton amongst friends.”