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Dr. Brian J. Lee writes:

Our big push this Fall is our "Calvin in the Capital" speaker series (www.CalvinintheCapital.org, and we have a fan page on Facebook). We have gotten a lot of interest, and are promoting it widely. We covet your prayers that this event might raise our profile and help us add some likeminded folks to our core group. Already, we have seen an uptick in visitors and inquiries. In less than a month, people from 16 countries and 45 states have visited our website, and I just fielded a call from someone in Georgia looking for a DC church for a friend moving to town.

We are still quite small. It has been difficult to be actively growing the church while working another job (I now have a day job at the Missile Defense Agency at the Department of Defense... quite a unique URC pastor's resume I have going now). And we've lost some major families as the economy and politics has taken them elsewhere (including the Sasse family, who have moved to Texas). If we can get our numbers up just a little more, I believe it will be crucial for me to go full time. Christ Reformed Anaheim is one of the few churches that made an annual commitment to us last year. I am praying hard that other churches in the URC will see the value of what we're doing here in DC, so that I can tend to this work full time early in 2010.

Thanks for your prayers,