Who we are

Delmar Reformed Church is a community of faith that welcomes all, working together to model the hospitality of Jesus, embody a spirit of generosity, and join in God’s work in the world.

  • DRC is a local congregation affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, which dates back to 1628 and identifies as the longest continuous Protestant tradition in the United States.

  • Alongside most Christian churches, DRC affirms three historic creeds: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.

    Beyond these three creeds, DRC joins other Reformed churches in affirming the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and the Confession of Belhar as historic and faithful expressions of the Christian faith.

  • The word “Reformed” can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Maybe to you it means nothing at all. Either way, you’re welcome here. But in case you’re curious, here’s the core of what we mean by the word Reformed:

    As a Reformed church, we are Christian - we confess one God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and we confess Jesus Christ as the perfect human embodiment of this God. With roots in the historic Reformation, we are also a Protestant Christian church, meaning that we confess Jesus Christ alone as the head of the church with tradition assuming a supportive role. We also say that Reformed churches are Confessional, meaning that the shape of our life and thought is formed according to the historic confessions of faith listed above. We believe these historic confessions to be faithful summaries of what is taught in Scripture and so we claim that Reformed churches are at their core Biblical.

    The Bible is God’s story and as it unfolds we discover that it’s actually our story too. Because of Jesus, we belong. At DRC we’re on a journey to firm up our footing in this unfolding story of belonging with God.

Ann Washburn




DRC hopes to be a place where your name is known and your story is heard.

Along the way, we want to introduce you to one name and one story that we especially hold dear in our community.

Ann Washburn.

After a period of prolonged growth, in 1925, the congregation approved a vote to enlarge and remodel the church and Sunday school building at a cost of $20,000. The church had anticipated that $15,000 would be covered by a bank loan by placing a mortgage on the church property.

Upon searching the deed, however, it was discovered that it contained a clause stating if at any time the property should cease to be used for church purposes the property would revert to the heirs of the Nathaniel Adams estate. Before the bank would make the loan it required the clause to be removed.

All of the 30 or more Adams heirs were willing to release his or her claim except one and the work delayed for two years. On March 13, 1927 at a Consistory meeting following the Sunday service, 15-year old Ann Washburn presented an envelope containing as she said, “My contribution to the Church building fund.”

It was the signed release by the one holdout, relinquishing his rights to title to the land on which the church stood. 15-year old Ann compelled a grown man to exchange his sense of entitlement for an act of generosity, something no one else had achieved for more than two years.

Sadly, Ann never saw the work completed as she died the next year. The baptismal font that still abides in the sanctuary today was given in her memory, and the church cornerstone contains her Bible and set of cross and crown pins for perfect attendance at Sunday School for six years.

Long before the words were crafted, Ann understood that the church is meant to be “a place to gather and a community in which to belong.” No matter your stage of life or faith, whatever brings you into the building, we hope you feel welcome here.

It’s what Ann would have wanted too.