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From the Minister’s Bookshelf

Welcome to the Pastor’s Corner of our web page.  For over 130 years our church has been an active part of our surrounding community.  From our beginning, in a small one room log school house, our congregation has seen themselves as “a light on the hill” (it has been said that Samaria is located on the highest point in the Raleigh area).  From a humble log building our congregation moved into a larger wooded sanctuary in 1878.  By 1930 our congregation had erected its third, and existing sanctuary, a beautiful stone structure made possible when the city of Raleigh removed its cobblestone streets and donated the stones to our church fathers.  As a congregation we see as our purpose to be “Christ Centered, Kingdom Focused and Mission Driven.”

We are a diverse congregation with a common understanding that we are a “group of broken people with a perfect Savior.”  We have a warm and accepting fellowship that is striving to know and grow in their Christian experience.

As the interim Pastor, I can tell you that we teach and preach God’s Word.  Each week the members of our congregation are challenged to go out and be a witness to those around them. 

If you are looking for a church home I would use the simple words that Jesus used when he called His first disciples… “come and see.”  Come and see what we are all about. 

Do you like to read?  I do!  And one of the most helpful “habits” that I have developed over the years of my ministry is to read books from Christian writers that help me in my spiritual growth and understanding.  Over the next nine months I will be sharing with you the names of books that I have found not only interesting, but valuable in my understanding of the Bible and Biblical events. These books will be from the series “Great Lives from God’s Word” by Thomas Nelson Publishing.  The featured writer is probably my favorite author/preacher Charles R. Swindoll.