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In 2020, in response to the global pandemic, the church moved all their ministry online and met physical needs for people all over greater Washington, DC, giving away boxes of food, toiletries, and soap, totaling 5.6 million meals. [10] A shared leadership structure for MBC was introduced between two lead pastors, David Platt and Mike Kelsey.
David Joseph Platt is an American evangelical Baptist pastor. He was senior pastor at the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, from 2006 to 2014. At the time he was the youngest megachurch pastor in the United States. From 2014 to 2017, Platt was president of the International Mission Board.
Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (Washington, D.C.) Christ Church (Georgetown, Washington, D.C.) Christ Church, Washington Parish; Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes; Church of the Epiphany (Washington, D.C.) Concordia German Evangelical Church and Rectory
In 1927, the church moved to a former Unitarian church building at 13th and L St that it purchased, but then in the 1950s, the church considered options for relocating closer to Lafayette Park. [4] The site at 16th and I Street NW, owned by the Mother Church, housed the Washington offices of the Church's Committee on Publication.
The Israel Bethel Church, founded in 1820 in Washington, D.C., was the first independent African American church with the city's first African American pastor, Rev. David Smith. [3] It was organized because the white Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church required black parishioners to sit in the galleries. [4]
Mark Dever - Senior pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. James T. Draper, Jr. - Southern Baptist Convention president from 1982–1984; Ronnie Floyd - former Senior Pastor of Cross Church and The Church At Pinnacle Hills, and is an author; Steve Gaines - Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee
In 2001, there were 1,073 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Washington, D.C. It has since grown to 3,168 members in 4 congregations. Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.38% in 2014.
Rev. Moses W. D. Norman (c. 1913)Rev. Henry Bailey, [1] with ten original members, founded the Fourth Baptist Church in 1864. According to John Wesley Cromwell, the Fourth Baptist Church of Washington D.C., later renamed the Metropolitan Baptist Church, was organized under the guidance of the First Colored Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. which was later renamed the Nineteenth Street Baptist ...