Black Rock Arts Center

BlackRock Center for the Arts provides inspiring performing and visual arts experiences that connect us all. Thank you for your interest in learning more about BlackRock, our arts programming, events, and the Upcounty Consolidaton Hub.

Bridgesus.org

Our Mission, Vision, and Purpose

Vision:
Bridges dreams of an ever-increasing number of Christ-following communities partnering with existing congregations to create positive social impact that transforms America.

Mission:
To support a new type of leader for a new model of church for America.  Bridges seeks to provide the very best support to leaders seeking to change lives, start new ministries, and facilitate newly Christ-following Communities, especially among people who think church is irrelevant.

Purpose:
Help leaders discover innovative ways to make disciples of Jesus who form new Christ-following communities across America.

Fox Chapel Elementary School

We are dedicated to helping students achieve academic success, develop a love for learning, and respect differences by working as a team.  Each student at Fox Chapel Elementary achieves by actively learning, putting forth effort, and showing good character in an engaging, comfortable environment.  The excellence of Fox Chapel Elementary is a result of the combined efforts of our outstanding staff, our hardworking students and our supportive community.

At the present time, we have about 600 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.  Our student body is very diverse with over 30 languages represented.  Our students come to school each day ready to learn.  A climate of mutual respect supports the cooperative learning of our students who strive to exhibit the Fox Chapel Trailblazer characteristics:

We are…Trustworthy

We are…Respectful

We are…Appreciative

We…Inspire Others

We are…Leaders

Fox Chapel Elementary implements the MCPS curriculum with differentiated and small group instruction.  Data on student performance is continuously collected and analyzed in order to plan for appropriate instruction.  Grade level teams work together each week to review the data and to plan collaboratively.

Highlights of our reading program include a Balanced Literacy program in all grade levels with emphasis on small group guided reading instruction and independent reading and writing.  Other programming to support our reading instruction includes William and Mary Reading Program, Junior Great Books and SOAR.  Writing instruction occurs daily.

In math, teachers provide opportunities for student discourse, multiple processes for problem-solving and the use of manipulatives.  The math block begins with a whole group lesson followed by guided math groups that review and extend the spiraled curriculum.

At Fox Chapel Elementary, we implement the Home School Model which provides the opportunity for our special education students to be in their home school with their neighborhood peers.  Our special education staffs, along with our regular education staff, have been trained in co-teaching and inclusion.

Student leadership and talent are developed through our extracurricular activities, such as:

• Safety Patrols
• Student Morning Announcements
• SERT/Green Team
• After School Activity Clubs
• Chess Club

Fox Chapel has an outstanding PTA with many parent volunteers.  Besides assisting in classrooms and chaperoning on field trips, our strong parent group participates in or sponsors:

• Book Fair
• Health Fair
• Ruth Rales Reading Program
• Cultural Arts Performances
• Reflections Program
• School Social Events
• Student Agenda Books and Red Folders

We are so proud of our school and our staff, parents, and students.  Check out all the LINKS on our website to see the latest happenings at each grade level and with our PTA.

Diana Zabetakis & Kim Henriquez
Principal/Assistant Principal

FOX CHAPEL’S VISION

Each student at Fox Chapel achieves success by actively learning, putting forth effort, and showing good character in an engaging, comfortable environment.

FOX CHAPEL’S MISSION

The Fox Chapel community is dedicated to helping students achieve academic success, develop a love of learning, and respect differences by working together as a team.

WORKING TOGETHER TO KEEP OUR STUDENTS SAFE

Keeping all Fox Chapel ES students safe is a top priority for our school and one of our three PBIS tenets (Respectful, Responsible, SAFE). Please review the below documents and discuss with your students how they can keep themselves and other students safe while walking to school and/or using our school buses.

Dayspring

Dayspring offers a rich heritage of Christian community, 200 acres of contemplative landscape, and the beauty and blessing of trees, meadows, and creeks.

A small community of faith, Dayspring Church was born out of The Church of the Saviour in 1976. We continue with the traditions and wisdom of our parent church: commitment to follow Jesus in non-violent ways of being and acting in resistance to systems of domination, integrity of membership, a foundation of Biblical vision, and the call to ministry in small groups. We listen for God’s Word in scripture, in silence, and in creation. We hope to grow in both the inward journey of relationship with God and the outward journey in service to the needs of the world.

Our worship service is at 10 AM on Sunday in the Farmhouse. There is a program for children during the service including a monthly Earth Sunday School outside on the land. From Monday to Friday, there is a gathering at noon in the Farmhouse for silent prayer.

We have evolved a practice of shared servant leadership in the church community and discernment of direction by the Spirit. Out of God’s great gift of the community of all life at Dayspring, we have heard the cry of Earth along with the cry of the poor, and we are committed to moving into a more sustainable way of life at Dayspring.

Mission groups are part of the legacy of The Church of the Saviour. Those who are called to a particular ministry focused on some point of need or suffering commit to work together, to practice certain disciplines for spiritual growth, and to share responsibility for Dayspring as a church and as a place.

Congregation members reflect annually on their commitment to the Dayspring Church community. On a Sunday in October, those who continue to be called to be part of the church congregation join together in making the following commitment:

I come today to claim Dayspring Church as a significant place of belonging.
I commit myself to deepening my relationship with Jesus Christ and to growing in  my relationship with the community of all life at Dayspring.
I seek to open my heart to God’s great love for me and to welcome and respond to God’s call on my life.
I will support this community with my presence and participation, with my gifts, and with my prayers.

Germantown HELP

We provide delivered emergency food, prescription assistance and holiday help to residents of Germantown, Maryland (zip codes 20874 and 20876).

We help our neighbors in need through our programs, referrals to other resources, and the relationships we have in the community.

Delivered Emergency Food

Prescription Assistance

Holiday Giving Project

National Capital Presbytery

National Capital Presbytery comprises 104 churches in four counties in Virginia, five counties in Maryland and the District of Columbia, speaking eleven languages in worship on a Sunday. Spread across the Washington DC metro area, the National Capital Presbytery is a diverse tapestry of people, churches and relationships.

Our churches are involved in ministry within their own neighborhoods, in partnership with each other across the presbytery, in partnership with other congregations and faith groups. We count more than 100 global ministry partnerships with congregations in Cuba, Haiti, Mexico and around the world to Hong Kong, Korea, Cameroon, Kenya and everywhere in between.

Our churches are forming New Worshipping Communities. We are discovering new forms of ministry for this new cultural context in which God is sending us. We come here from East and West and North and South and sit together and celebrate God’s amazing action that has called us together. We are Evangelical and Progressive, black, white, Hispanic, Anglo, Asian, African, even European. We worship in a variety of familiar “classical” styles as well as at least ten types of other worship expression styles.

We strive to strengthen and transform our congregations to be Missional, Pastoral and Prophetic:

• By gathering regularly to be in relationship and generative discernment
• Encouraging mission networks amongst our churches and in the wider community
• In worship that refreshes, identifies, forms, reforms and informs us
• Providing relational accountability that encourages each of us toward increased faithfulness and service
• We are less a “meeting” and more an organic web of relationships and interconnectedness amongst our people and our churches
• Providing a community across our differences that is a witness to a culture that is far too sectarian, divisive and self-isolating.

Our Location:

National Capital Presbytery
11300 Rockville Pike
Suite 1009
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: 240.514.5348
Fax: 240.514.5349
www.thepresbytery.org
Hours of Operation: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
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