Joseph O. Anderson was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. Joseph came to Washington, DC in 1986 to attend Howard University where he studied chemistry. He met his wife, Maria in 1993. They were married in 1996 at the Schrader Lane church in Nashville, TN. Joseph was baptized into Christ in 1995 at the Southeast church, and later attended the Beltway and Prince George’s congregations where he served as teacher and director of educational programs. The family came to Silver Spring congregation in 2009. Joseph served as a deacon from 2011 to 2015 and has worked very closely with the Youth and Adult Development ministries. Joseph’s professional career includes supporting the US Department of Defense in areas of Emergency Preparedness and Counter-Terrorism. He currently works on medical countermeasures to prevent, mitigate, and respond to chemical warfare exposure. The Andersons have two daughters, Cameron and Chloe.
Jackie R. Gill grew up in Washington, D.C. and earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Catholic University. He’s married to Eleanor and they have one daughter, India. They came to Silver Spring in 1989. Jackie serves in worship leadership, information technology for the church and is chairman of the missions committee. He participated in many mission trips to Houlton, ME, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Nags Head, NC, Albania and Thailand. He has oversight for the church office, benevolence, missions, and finances. Jackie retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in January 2014. He served 36 years in the federal government (Department of Navy (28 years), Department of Veterans Affairs (3 years) and NASA (5 years) and two years in the private sector (Westinghouse).
Cristobal Portillo is in the construction industry. He and his wife Rosa, are natives of El Salvador and have three children Wendy, Jairo, and Romeo. Cristobal has served as a deacon at Silver Spring since 1995 and is a board member of Camp WaMaVa.
Floyd M. Williamson
Floyd M. Williamson has served at the Silver Spring church of Christ as the pulpit minister since October 2012. His wife, Isabelle C. is a leader in the ladies program and teaches ladies classes. Floyd and Isabelle C. were married in the summer of 1977, while he was serving as a summer personal-worker at the Sunset Road church of Christ, Burlington, NJ. They have two adult married sons and six grandchildren.
Floyd became a Christian in 1970 at Camp WaMaVa while attending the SE church of Christ, Washington DC. He has served as a missionary in Gothenburg, Sweden; missionary-in-residence in Memphis, TN (1981-1992); an evangelist in Oswego, NY (1992-2000); and a pulpit minster in Oxon Hill, MD (2000-2012). Besides graduating from Northeastern Christian Jr. College and Oklahoma Christian University, Floyd has completed an M.A.R. and M.Div. from the Harding School of Theology, Memphis, TN and a D.Min. from the Howard University School of Divinity, Washington DC.
Elmer Pacheco is our Hispanic evangelist.
Elmer and his wife, Jenny, and their two sons, Dámaris and Caleb, arrived at the Silver Spring Church of Christ in August 2003. Before moving here, they were ministering in English at the Church of Christ in Lilly Dale, Indiana for five years.
Before that, they ministered in the Church of Christ of Gardens and in the missionary field of Huinala (Monterrey, Mexico) for three years.
Elmer graduated with a B.A. Licensed in General Ministry of Kentucky Christian University, and Jenny has a degree in Marketing. Jenny participates in teaching classes for children and classes for women.