January 28, 2026
Dear River Road Church Family,
I would like to express how grateful I am for who you are and the ministry experiences I have shared alongside you. Over the past year, I have wrestled with my sense of calling and desire to serve the Lord in new ways. Continually I am drawn to places where faith, nature, and art come together. And while I cannot explain all this might entail, I am eager to live into it in order to figure it out. With a sense of God’s presence, many questions, and a spirit of hopeful peace—after seven years as your Associate Pastor for Adult Discipleship—I am submitting my resignation, effective on March 1, 2026.
Our family loves you and plans to remain a part of this fellowship. The friendship we share is a tremendous gift and the ways you seek to be faithful to God are inspiring and beautiful. Your blessing of theological inquiry, acceptance of all people, love for one another, and commitment to missions and servanthood, make us proud to be a part of this community. We will find our place after allowing time for all of us to settle and regroup.
Your encouragement and prayers for wisdom, along with God’s guidance and blessing, will be a tremendous gift. You have a strong ministerial staff, with whom it has been a gift to minister and grow. They, and you, can be assured of my continuing prayers for God’s blessings on the future ministries of our church.
Holding hope for God’s plan for our futures,
Rev. Anna Perry Miller
Dear Church Family,
As you have read above, the Rev. Anna Perry Miller has discerned a new season of calling and has submitted her resignation. Anna is not leaving out of dissatisfaction or unhappiness, but out of a faithful desire to follow the Spirit and minister in new creative spaces. While we are sad to receive this news, we bless her in this step of obedience, and we give thanks for the seven years she has poured into our congregational life together.
Anna’s ministry has borne beautiful fruit among us—through thoughtful teaching, compassionate care, deep theological inquiry, and strong leadership that invited us to grow in Christ. We are grateful for her partnership in the gospel and the integrity with which she serves. We are also encouraged that the Miller family plans to remain part of our fellowship. Their continued presence among us is a gift.
Seasons of transition invite us to love one another well and listen for God’s voice. As we do so, let us pray for Anna and her family as she steps into this new calling, that God’s peace and clarity would surround them. Let us also pray for our church, that we may walk faithfully into the future God is preparing.
Peace,
Daniel E. Glaze