Within a year of the first worship service, a building committee was organized and the search for a place to relocate the growing congregation was begun. Some hoped to purchase the school in which the church was meeting, but the ideal property, many believed, would be on Buford Road in [...]
Dick and Shirley worked tirelessly for SPC from the time they joined Stony Point Church in 1972. Dick was quickly elected an elder and taught adult Sunday School classes which were legendary, moving many to attend and then commit themselves to SPC according to the accounts of those who attended [...]
They called him "Cupid" Aquila -- and with good reason: During his six years at Stony Point, the Reverend Dominic A. Aquila conducted 34 marriage ceremonies. He also administered 26 baptisms, the first of which was his own son, Andy, a year from the day Dominic and his wife, Davileen, [...]
Although the church was referred to as First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Richmond from its first meeting, it wasn't until November 23, 1969 that the name Stony Point Reformed Presbyterian Church was settled on over other suggestions, including Grace Reformed Presbyterian, Immanuel Presbyterian, Dayspring Church (Presbyterian) and Open Door Reformed [...]
The very first budget of the new church contained an line-item of $27 which was set aside for missions, and the first couple to receive regular financial support from SPC was David and Barbara Cross (pictured above) in September, 1969, just three months after the congregation met for the first [...]
On June 1, 1969, the first worship service of an as-yet-to-be-named new church was held at Stony Point School with 40 adults and 6 nursery-aged children in attendance. A picnic had been held the day before at Forest Hill Park to give the congregation's new members a chance to get [...]
In August 1968, several members of the group which met in 1966 met with Donald J. MacNair, Executive Director of the National Presbyterian Missions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. With his assistance, their hope to establish a Reformed Presbyterian Church in the Richmond area were revived. Sunday evening [...]
A group of people met in the home of Bill and Beth York in the fall of 1966. Their desire was to establish a church which would proclaim God’s Word boldly and, at the same time, address the real needs of the world around them. The group had no particular [...]
