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How We Started

"Our desire was to advance the Gospel and to extend the Kingdom of God in the Leesburg area."

Potomac Hills began in 1990 as a small group of Reformed Christians meeting during Sunday afternoons in the living room of Mark and Phoebe Rist in Leesburg, Virginia. Our desire was to advance the Gospel and to extend the Kingdom of God in the Leesburg area and in due course to establish a church in the denomination of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). We began meeting in the chapel area of the Colonial Funeral Home of Leesburg located at 201 Edwards Ferry Road N.E in Leesburg, as God urged us to also worship together on Sundays.

In the spring of 1992, we started meeting at the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Leesburg, located at 712 Dry Mill Road SW in Leesburg, where a regular pulpit evangelist, John Barber, filled our pulpit on Sundays.

In June 1992, we called Wade Smith fresh out of seminary to plant a PCA church in the Leesburg area that would positively impact people with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. Wade led us in a phone-a-thon to invite the community to a grand opening at our new location at Ashburn Elementary School, located at 44062 Fincastle Drive in Ashburn, Virginia, in December 1992.

Potomac Hills was officially recognized as a particular church of the PCA on October 2, 1994. In June 1995, God called Wade to start a new church in Utah. We found the man who God had prepared to be our new servant-leader after a year and a half without a pastor; Dave Silvernail arrived in January 1997 and even now serves as our pastor.

We moved to our current location at Harper Park Middle School, located at 701 Potomac Station Drive in Leesburg, after the school opened in 1999. In May 2006, we changed our name from Potomac Hills Community Church to Potomac Hills Presbyterian Church to more accurately reflect our values and mission as a denomination.