Memorial Service for Charlotte Evans
Charlotte Elizabeth Evans | 2015-2026
Charlotte Elizabeth Evans of Falls Church, Virginia, passed away July 26, 2026 after a hard-fought battle with Osteosarcoma. She attended Grace Christian Academy in Annandale, where she was a rising sixth grader. Charlotte loved math and art classes and was devoted to her Christian faith. Outside of school, Charlotte enjoyed building lego, miniature houses, and many clay art projects with her Gigi. She was a huge fan of anything around the water — joining her summer swim team at the age of six and becoming a key member of the undefeated 2025 Division 5 champions. She loved the sand and surf — relishing family vacations to the beach with her cousins, and dreaming of a day when she could get her scuba license and visit the Great Barrier Reef.
While she did not get that wish, she did get to swim with dolphins, put her toes in the Pacific Ocean, and meet numerous sea creatures. She also never met a dog or a horse that didn’t love her. She formed a special relationship with a retired pony, named Kane. On her grandparent’s Appomattox farm, she enjoyed feeding baby lambs, energetically hunting for chicken eggs and giving lots of pets to the farm dogs.
Charlotte was a gifted builder, graduating quickly from small lego to large Harry Potter castles, and eventually designing her own treehouse at Lake Anna with an architect and custom home building crew.
Despite being diagnosed with Osteosarcoma at age 8, Charlotte never believed that she couldn’t conquer this hideous disease. She persevered through a knee and femur replacement, broken ankle, massive bleeding events, a collapsed lung, nauseating chemo, and lengthy hospital stays that left her with “jelly legs.” Each time, Charlotte rebuilt her body with physical therapy and was even back swimming in the pool this Spring after the cancer took over most of her right lung and paralyzed her left arm.
Charlotte’s fight was strong until the end. Just two Fridays before her death, she asked her family to keep fighting. She was able to get one more experimental radiation paired with a specially-approved medication. A separate hospital board was about to meet to make her the first child in the world to get a new drug.
Charlotte never gave up. She was still taking her medication at 9pm on Saturday and directing her nurse and uncle in ways to make her more comfortable at 11:45 pm Saturday night. “Uncle David, please move that pillow.” But what she saw on the morning of July 26th, 2026, she couldn’t turn down: the biggest swimming pool, the most beautiful coral and dolphins, and her loving Heavenly Father welcoming her home, telling her, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Well done.” In God’s mercy, she didn’t suffer. She slipped from her earthly father’s arms – to the arms of Jesus at 12:15am. She’s healed! She’s whole!
Her life verse: Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”
She did. And now, we will. She leaves behind an 8-year-old sister, Jourdan, her parents, Daniel and Jessica (Stone) Evans, her grandparents, Richard and Wendy Weinstein, her grandparents, Jack and Pam Evans, as well as numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. She also leaves behind a community – built over dozens of churches, hundreds of supporters, and a group of friends who have become like family to her own.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Charlotte Evans Legacy Fund which supports her favorite causes and provides support for osteosarcoma research and the type of support we wish we had when we were a newly-diagnosed families fighting this disease.
We will be holding Charlotte’s series of remembrances and celebrations as follows:
Celebration of Life: 4pm Saturday, August 1 @ Reston Bible Church — 45640 Oakbrook Court, Dulles, VA 20166 ATTIRE: WEAR YOUR BEST BLUE – especially turquoise and ocean blue. WE WILL HONOR HER BY DOING A BLUE-OUT!
Open House: 6p-8p Sunday, August 2 @ Woodward Funeral Home — 200 Fredericksburg Ave. Louisa, VA 23093
Graveside service 11am Monday, August 3rd @ Spring Grove Memorial Cemetery 2779 Pendleton Road, Mineral, Virginia 23117
Preparing for Sunday | August 2
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
This Is Our God | [listen + lyrics]
Brandon Lake, Pat Barrett, Phil Wickham, Steven Furtick
Galatians 6:14
Every Step | [listen + lyrics]
Ian Lewis, James Ferguson
Hebrews 12:2
Be Still My Soul (In You I Rest) | [listen + lyrics]
Katharina von Schlegel, Jason Ingram, Kari Jobe
Psalm 46:10
Echo Holy | [listen + lyrics]
Jake Espy, Kory Miller, Mia Fieldes, and Ran Jackson
Revelation 4:8
SERMON TEXT
Jeremiah 20
Jeremiah 32
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. (Jeremiah 32:17)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | July 26
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Be Glad | [listen + lyrics]
Cody Carnes, Chris Davenport, Jason Ingram, Steven Furtick
Psalm 118:1
House of the Lord | [listen + lyrics]
Jonathan Smith, Phil Wickham
Revelation 19:16
Clothed | [listen + lyrics]
Hannah Hopkins
Isaiah 61:10
A Thousand Hallelujahs | [listen + lyrics]
Brooke Ligertwood, Phil Wickham, Scott Ligertwood
Psalm 92:4-5
There Is a Redeemer | [listen + lyrics]
Melody Green
Isaiah 54:5
SERMON TEXT
Ruth 1-4
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” (Ruth 1:16-17)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | July 19
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Worthy of It All | [listen + lyrics]
David Brymer, David Brymer, Ryan Hall
Revelation 4:11
Build My Life | [listen + lyrics]
Brett Younker, Karl Martin, Kirby Kable, Matt Redman, Pat Barrett
Hebrews 12:28
Promises | [listen]
Aaron Moses, Carrington Gaines, Dante Bowe, Keila Alvarado, Lemuel Marin
Psalm 113:2-3
Great Is Thy Faithfulness | [listen + lyrics]
William Marion Runyan
Lamentations 3:22-23
I Will Look Up | [listen + lyrics]
Mack Brock, Chris Brown, Wade Joye, Matt Redman
Psalm 121:1
SERMON TEXT
Genesis 39
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. (Genesis 39:21)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | July 12
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Battle Belongs | [listen + lyrics]
Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham
Romans 8:31-32
Our God | [listen + lyrics]
Jonas Myrin, Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Matt Redman
Romans 8:31
He Will Hold Me Fast | [listen + lyrics]
Ada Ruth Habershon, Matthew Merker
John 10:28
Be Thou My Vision | [listen + lyrics]
Eleanor Henrietta Hull, Mary Elizabeth Byrne
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
SERMON TEXT
Judges 6
Judges 7
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.” (Judges 6:12)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | July 5
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
My Country ‘Tis of Thee | [listen + lyrics]
Samuel Francis Smith
Psalm 33:12
Heal Our Land | [listen + lyrics]
Kari Jobe Carnes
2 Chronicles 7:14
Battle Hymn of the Republic | [listen + lyrics]
Julia Ward Howe
Psalm 33:12
What He’s Done | [listen]
Jacob Sooter, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Anna Golden, Kristian Stanfill
1 Timothy 1:17
Death Was Arrested | [listen + lyrics]
Adam Kersh, Brandon Coker, Heath Balltzglier, Paul Taylor Smith
Hebrews 2:9
SERMON TEXT
Galatians 5
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. (Galatians 5:13)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | June 28
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Only King Forever | [listen + lyrics]
Mack Brock, Chris Brown, Steven Furtick, Wade Joye
1 Timothy 1:17
Praise | [listen + lyrics]
Brandon Lake
Psalm 150:6
The King Is in the Room | [listen + lyrics]
Ethan Hulse, Josh Farro, Phil Danyew, Phil Wickham, Taylor Johnson, Tommy Iceland
Luke 4:18
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) | [listen + lyrics]
John Newton, Chris Tomlin, Louis Giglio, Diane Dykgraaf
Psalm 107:14
Be Unto Your Name | [listen + lyrics]
Gary Sadler, Lynn DeShazo
Revelation 5:11-12
Heal Our Land | [listen + lyrics]
Kari Jobe Carnes
2 Chronicles 7:14
SERMON TEXT
Galatians 5
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | June 21
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
My Heart And My Hallelujah | [listen + lyrics]
Steven Theriot
Psalm 63:3-4
Be Thou My Vision | [listen + lyrics]
Eleanor Henrietta Hull, Mary Elizabeth Byrne
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Christus Victor (Amen) | [listen + lyrics]
Keith and Kristyn Getty
Matthew 25:31-32
O Praise The Name (Anástasis) | [listen + lyrics]
Benjamin Hastings, Dean Ussher, Marty Sampson
Romans 5:8
God Is for Us | [listen + lyrics]
James Ferguson, James Tealy, Jonny Robinson, Rich Thompson, Tiarne Kleyn, Michael Farren, Jesse Reeves
Romans 8:31
SERMON TEXT
Romans 15
Romans 16
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. (Romans 16:25-27)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | June 14
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
King of Glory | [listen + lyrics]
Brett Younker, Hank Bentley, Jason Ingram, Kristian Stanfill, and Matt Maher
Psalm 24:7
Open Up The Heavens | [listen + lyrics]
Meredith Andrews, Stuart Garrard, James McDonald, Andi Rozier
Isaiah 64:1
Honey in the Rock | [listen + lyrics]
Brooke Ligertwood
Psalm 81:16
His Mercy Is More | [listen + lyrics]
Matt Boswell, Matt Papa
Romans 5:20
Cornerstone | [listen + lyrics]
William Bradbury, Eric Liljero, Reuben Morgan, Edward Mote, Jonas Myrin
Ephesians 2:20
SERMON TEXT
Romans 14
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. (Romans 14:8-9)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Preparing for Sunday | June 7
SONGS WE’LL BE SINGING TOGETHER
Yes & Amen (You Never Fail) | [listen + lyrics]
Armando Sánchez, Matthew Ryan Harris, Ryan Nathaniel Rich, Zachary Bradon Rowe
Psalm 89:1
Every Step | [listen + lyrics]
Ian Lewis, James Ferguson
Hebrews 12:2
The Lion and the Lamb | [listen + lyrics]
Leeland Mooring, Benton Brown, Brian Johnson
Deuteronomy 33:26
Jesus Thank You | [listen + lyrics]
Pat Sczebel
Romans 5:10
SERMON TEXT
Romans 13
MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. (Romans 13:8)