WASHINGTON, D.C., METRO & NORTHERN VIRGINIA Then 1876—J.O. Corliss and E.B. Lane helped start Adventist work in Virginia. Corliss also organized the first Adventist church in Washington, D.C., in 1889.
1894—A few members of the First church in D.C. helped establish a church in Arlington, Va. This was later H.M.S. Richards’ first church as a new pastoral graduate of Washington Missionary College (now Washington Adventist University) in Takoma Park, Md.
1903—After a fire destroyed the Review and Herald Publishing Association, it was temporarily housed near the U.S. Capitol.
Now The Southern Asian church in Silver Spring, Md., is the largest Southern Asian Adventist congregation outside of Southern Asia. The Metropolitan church in Hyattsville, Md.,
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recently opened a community center with a medical clinic, gymnasium, banquet hall and conference center. The Sligo church in Takoma Park, one of the largest Adventist congregations in North America, is very engaged in community advocacy. The Capital Memorial church in D.C., established in 1902, holds an outdoor church service in a local park every summer. The Takoma Park church, established in 1904, recently planted the union’s first Oromo Ethiopian congregation. Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington is a coalition of seven area churches that offers food, a thrift store, computer and ESL classes and a variety of resources to low-income families. First church in D.C. runs an emergency food pantry and serves hot meals four times a week to residents in need. The Washington Spanish church in Silver Spring birthed Hispanic work in the nation’s capital in 1957 with 46 charter members. Today there are nearly 10,000 Spanish-speaking Adventists in the region and some 60 churches.
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Members: 41,000 Churches: 95 Schools: 10 Next
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Deaf Evangelistic Adventist Fellowship’s 11th annual Deaf Eastern Autumn Revival October 27-30
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Capital Memorial church’s International Food Fair May 15
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WAU Music Department’s Tenebrae Good Friday service April 22 and Christmas concert December 2
Don’t Miss
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Adventist World Headquarters
The Potomac Adventist Book and Health Food Store in Silver Spring, Md., which opened in 1905, is one of the largest distributors of Bibles, Christian books and vegetarian products in North America.