About

We are learning to live the whole of our lives in communion with Jesus.

Church on the Hill is a community of people being formed by Jesus for the sake of the world. We are rooted in Scripture, dependent on the Holy Spirit, nourished by the practices of the historic Church, and sent to love our neighbors in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.

Our mission is simple: Sharing in the life of Jesus for the life of the world. We describe that life in three movements: believe the good news of Jesus, embody it in the way we live together, and bear it into the world.

Our Mission

Sharing in the life of Jesus for the life of the world

Our Vision

To become a people who believe, embody, and bear the good news of Jesus

The Kind of Church We Are Becoming

These convictions shape our life together and call us to practices we return to again and again.

Jesus prayed that his people would be one. We practice unity by naming our differences honestly and learning to love one another in Christ. Our unity is part of our witness: as we grow in oneness, the world receives a glimpse of God’s reconciling love (John 17:20–23).

God gives gifts to the whole body, so we develop and equip people to serve their families, church, workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities. Maturity means becoming ready to give ourselves away.

We believe the Holy Spirit is present and active. We pray for healing, listen for God’s guidance, welcome the gifts of the Spirit, and remain humble about mystery. We seek a faithful openness to what God may do, marked by expectancy, discernment, and humility.

The Church has been learning the way of Jesus for two thousand years. We gratefully receive this inheritance—its creeds and theological wisdom, its worship and witness, and its practices of prayer, Sabbath, silence, communion, and service. Rooted in Scripture and attentive to the Holy Spirit, we draw from this living tradition to follow Jesus faithfully in the present.

Sunday gathers and forms us for life beyond Sunday. We worship and receive from God so that we can be sent into our homes, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, and city as witnesses to Christ.

The Church is Christ’s body, and every follower of Jesus has gifts to offer. We look for ways to serve, encourage, build, create, welcome, pray, give, and participate in the work God is doing among us.

Our Story and Affiliation

Our Story and Affiliation

Church on the Hill is part of the Foursquare Church, a global Pentecostal movement. Foursquare’s fourfold gospel gives a distinctly Pentecostal accent to the historic Christian confession: Jesus Christ is Savior, Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, Healer, and Soon-Coming King. We are grateful for our Pentecostal heritage and for our place within the wider historic Christian Church. Our life together is shaped by both: expectancy for the present work of the Holy Spirit and rootedness in the faith and practices Christians have received across generations.

A smiling family of five, including a mother, father, two daughters, and a son, stand together for a photo in a grassy area with trees behind them.

A Word from the Lead Pastor

One of the things I love about Church on the Hill is our desire to be both rooted and expectant—rooted in Scripture and the historic Christian faith, and expectant that the Holy Spirit is still at work among us. We believe Jesus calls the whole of our lives under his loving reign.

So we open Scripture honestly, meet Christ at his table, learn to pray, cultivate friendships across generations, and serve our neighbors. Through these ordinary, holy gifts, God patiently forms us in the way of Jesus.

We have not arrived. We are learning together. Whether you have followed Jesus for years, are returning after time away, or are simply curious, I would be glad for you to be our guest. 

—Andrew Ray Williams, Lead Pastor