Welcome
We are a vibrant family of faith rooted in God's Word, gathering together to worship, and equipped to share the love of Christ with the world. We are a caring community that is passionate about serving others and growing closer to Christ. We believe Jesus Christ is our Savior, the source of our compassion and acceptance and the drive behind our desire to share God’s love.
Welcome to our
Sunday Worship Service
at 10:00 a.m.
January 18, 2026.
The Service will be available for livestream, or to be viewed on our YouTube channel later.​
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YouTube Channel Link -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGL4zscdHkbzvFzF4iuZE2g
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Pastor Richard's Reflection
“I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”- John 11:25-26
It’s been a tough week for our church family. On Sunday, Kay Culp died after being homebound for years. She was one of our longtime members, joining Church of the Hills almost 61 years ago in March, 1965. On Tuesday night, Ken Kyle died after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Ken was a beloved member of our congregation for many years. Carla McFadden, another beloved member of our church family, has been moved to hospice care where she will live out her last days.
Anytime we face death, whether it’s someone in our own family or in our church, it’s hard. It doesn’t matter how old they are or if the death was expected. Death is never easy. Death is particularly hard when it happens to so many people at one time in our church family.
It’s in these times that it’s most important to remember the resurrection promise. If it were not for Jesus, we’d have every reason to despair. I’m reminded of Paul’s letter to the Romans, chapter 8, one of the chapters I turn to often when I need reassurance. Paul says at the end of the chapter, “for I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8: 38-39) In this grand pronouncement that nothing separates us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, death is the first thing Paul mentions. This is no coincidence. Death is what we all face, death is what most of us fear most, and death is what Christ overcame for us. As Paul also says in his first letter to the Corinthians, “death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Cor. 15: 54-57)
As a community of faith, we will face death, as we have this week. But we also can live with the assurance that all the saints who go before us live on. Because of Jesus, even though death is hard and our grief is very real, we know death is not the end. For we have been given eternal life through him.
Nothing separates us from God’s love. Not even death. And death doesn’t separate us from those we love who die in the Lord (Rev. 14:13). Because they are now with God, in the eternal rest that God has prepared for them. And one day we will see them again.
Thanks be to God!

May the Love of God be with you all,

Pastor Richard
Love in Action
Mission of the Month
Pura Vida Ministries
Guatemala is its people; Pura Vida is creating a brighter future for children in Guatemala!
Pura Vida Ministries is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to promote health and education in the Quiché department of Guatemala. We are currently focusing on rural villages in the western highlands of Guatemala.
Often when trying to help the poor, people want to give. That is a great impulse. The challenge, however, is to give in such a way that beneficiaries become more self-sufficient in the long term. At Pura Vida we are working to create programs that harness the giving impulse in a way that results in lasting change.
Church of the Hills, PCUSA partners with Pura Vida Ministries through our mission giving each year! There are additional ways that you can support this nonprofit. Please find out more about Pura Vida at our Mission Month service on November 16th and look them up in their website:
“Love in Action” is the Church of the Hills mission team. The primary goal of the Love in Action Team is to serve the needs of others locally, nationally and internationally. The people of Church of the Hills are blessed with unique gifts; although the size of our congregation is smaller, sharing these gifts remains a vital part of our outreach ministry.
The “Love in Action” Committee will guide us to be Christ’s faithful Witnesses. As such, we will share a deep life of service, and participate in God’s mission to care for the needs of the sick, the poor, and the lonely to establish Christ’s just, loving, and peaceable rule in the world.
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