Who We Are

Wellspring is a congregation of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, gathered in Daleville, Virginia. Wellspring began as a home church in 2001, when our founding pastor and his family moved to Botetourt County. What started in living rooms and rented halls—Troutville Town Hall, Lord Botetourt High School, Attic Productions—became, in 2006, an organized congregation of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. In 2012, we moved into the building where we still worship in today. None of this happened because of our strength. Two decades in, we’re grateful for a God who plants, gathers, and grows His Church—and we’re looking to the years ahead with the same trust that carried us through the first.

Our Vision

Wellspring seeks to become a church marked by doctrinal depth, relational warmth, and intentional mission—equipping generations of disciples, engaging the community around us, and multiplying through future church planting.”

This is not a slogan, nor a finished product. It is where we believe the Lord is leading us—a direction we’re walking together, in dependence on Him.

Our Mission

Making and maturing disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

This is the task Christ has given to every church, in every season, regardless of size. Every member of this church is called to participate—according to the gifts and station God has given them.

Our Distinctives

A short introduction to what makes us us—not an exhaustive theology.

The Word of God. We believe the Bible is God’s inspired, inerrant, and infallible (i.e., true and trustworthy) Word—the final authority for what we believe and how we live. It isn’t one voice among many we weigh against our own judgment; it’s the standard our judgment answers to.

One God, Triune. We worship one God, eternal and self-existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—equally to be loved, honored, and worshiped. Jesus Christ, truly God and truly man, is the only mediator between God and man; salvation is found in Him alone.

Reformed. We believe salvation is God’s gracious work from start to finish—that He seeks us before we ever seek Him, and that grace, not our own effort, is what saves and sustains us.

Presbyterian. Our church is led by a plurality of elders—men who shepherd, not administrators who manage—accountable to one another and to the wider church, not to any one man alone.

Covenantal. We believe God has always dealt with His people as a family across generations, not a collection of individuals. That shapes how we baptize, structure our worship, and do life together.

Worship. We believe the ordinary means of grace—the Word preached, the sacraments administered, prayer offered together—are still how God builds His church. We don’t chase what’s new; we return to what’s lasting.

Confessional. We hold to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms as a faithful summary of biblical teaching, held humbly under the authority of Scripture itself.