New URC Forming in the Washington, DC Area

For anyone interested, there is a new URC congregation forming in the Washington, DC area.  Here's their website if you want more information. Click here: www.urc-dc.org.

If you know anyone in the DC area looking for a confessional "Three-Forms" church, please let them know about this new work.  The church planter is a good friend, and has long been associated with Modern Reformation magazine and the White Horse Inn.  Here's his bio:  

Dr. Brian J. Lee has worked as an editor and writer for Modern Reformation Magazine and the White Horse Inn, a nationally syndicated radio program. A founding member of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California, he led evening worship and taught adult education courses as a seminarian. He is licensed to preach in the United Reformed Churches in Michigan. He holds degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Westminster Seminary California (Masters) and Calvin Theological Seminary (Ph.D.). He has taught at the Washington, DC and Atlanta campuses of Reformed Theological Seminary, as well as Calvin College and Calvin Seminary, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

Comments

[Josh]

Thats a bit far for me, we need a good reformed here in Chillicothe Oh!

["lee n. field"]

Interesting. My old CRC pastor is now, I believe, in DC. His life has taken some odd turns. I pray for him when I think of it.

[scottie f.]

we need some good ones in the san fernando valley

[Paul]

scottie,

There are URC churches in Pasadena and Torrance, not too far a drive for you.

Check them out or come to Anaheim and meet Kim.

[zrim]

as long as we are plugging good, reormed and confessional churches...i would like to be a pointer for anyone in my sleepy little hometown in northern michigan who is desperate for local reformation. if you live in the traverse city surrounding/area check out 'redeemer presbyterian.' they are a young PCA church plant. they are thoroughly clarkian-riddlebargian-hartian hortonites seeking to put to practice the modern reformation devotions. they are especially devoted to reformed worship (liturgical and sacramental). i was pleasantly surprised to find them a year ago.

zrim

[walt]

"we need some good ones in the san fernando valley "

There used to be one until Redeemer OPC closed. Burbank has a good PCA (Rev. Owen Lee). I wasn't impressed with the URC in Torrance, or the OPC there either. Both are pastored by guys who haven't been to a reformed seminary.

[Ricky Rickard, Jr.]

We need a good URC in Fairborn, OH.

[Timotheus]

Cool,

Someday we may get an URC in West Virginian. Dr. Brian J. Lee must be a sound biblical man because he created the site on a MAC. LOL

Tim

[JD]

I've been going to their weekly Bible studies, and it's a real encouragement to have something so close to the D.C. area. One thing I've been looking for years is a URC who believes strongly in the Law/Gospel distinction.

I've been listening to the WHI for years, so it's a great encourage to find something where the same thing is being preached...Please keep us in your prayers...


My family has been very blessed. Please keep this

[inwoo]

we need a good urc in new york, new jersey.

[Steven]

Ann Arbor, Michigan is desperate and hungry for a good Reformed church. Ann Arbor is a beautiful college town that is hungry for the gospel but it seems that Reformed churches are afraid of AA. It seems funny that you drive a couple of hours west to Grand Rapids and can find all the godly Reformed churches you could ever want. WE NEED HELP IN ANN ARBOR....hint....hint!! Where are you URC?

[walt]

"April 28, 2007 | Steven"

Isn't that close to Dearbornistan? Didn't Michigan used to have reformed churches everywhere. Wow.

[Steven]

Walt,

Ann Arbor is about 45 minutes west of Dearborn. Yes. I believe reformed churches were located in about every city in Michigan. I don't know what happened. Ann Arbor is a tough (very liberal) town. The OPC tried to start a church here several years back but that little movement died out. The PCA is trying about an hour north of here. For a large college town, we do not even have a Reformed outreach to university students. It is almost as if the URC and like minded churches are fearful of making an attempt in Ann Arbor (with its liberal reputation.)

[MaryBeth]

We are in desperate need a URC - Christ Reformed type of Church, or a Dr. Riddlebarger type of faithful Pastor in the Richmond, Virginia area.

[zrim]

"It seems funny that you drive a couple of hours west to Grand Rapids and can find all the godly Reformed churches you could ever want."

steven,

i went to school in AA and now live in GR. but you cannot find a good confessional church with visions, etc. like christ reformed. there are 2.5 reformed churches on every corner here, but you only know that by whatthe marquis outside says. the inside is another story, often times. i tis very disheartening to be is this cradle of the reformed tradition and see the vast majority quite smitten with the evangelical fiesta many o fus have deliberately rejected. i gues my point is, as much as i love GR, the residual effects of the confessionally reformed expression of faith and my own reformed church, don't get too misty eyed over "little jersusalem"!

zrim (whose first name is also steve, btw)

p.s. michigan is a fascinating experiment socio-culturally speaking. southeast (liberal, blue-collar, democrat, union driven, detroit suburbs), northwest (ll bean, plain vanilla, small-town, downstate escapees) and southwest (conservative, white-bread, dutch, republican) are very different from each other.

[walt]

"It is almost as if the URC and like minded churches are fearful of making an attempt in Ann Arbor (with its liberal reputation.)"

I know the OPC in Berkeley, CA is doing very well. Wayne Forkner is the pastor. Usually, when the town goes super-lib, people are starving for an alternative. There's people that drive down from Santa Cruz to Covenant OPC in Castroville (quite a ways) because all of the orthodox churches pretty much bailed that town.

[keith]

fantastic...

[Steven]

zrim

thanks for your comments and observations of Michigan. I wholeheartedly agree. I was not aware of the state of the reformed churches in GR. Now I know. I still would love a godly Reformed congregation in Ann Arbor.

where did you attend church when you were in AA if I might ask?

walt

thank you for your comments also.

Steven

[zrim]

steven,

well, when i was in AA i was still a fledgling evangy! it was some bible church that i can't even recall now. all i really remember was it had a big cross in the front and i would constantly try and determine where i was in my spiritual growth and self-improvement on the cross. oh, how typical...and nothing there ever combated such a piety but only seemed to foster it.

anyway, sorry i can't point you to a good one. perservere.

zrim