I had a thought as I slipped my vanilla latte: As long as the church stays on the periphery, our culture will never experience an epiphany. When National Community was first getting off the ground ...

But for Batterson, 43-year-old pastor of Washington’s National Community Church ... his congregation didn’t have anywhere else to go. Now the church has six sites—including Georgetown, DC’s Columbia ...

No, that is not a misprint, it’s the plan of the National Community Church, a DC area congregation that ... theaters and one coffeehouse in the Washington, D.C. area, NCC plans to launch its ...

It was already an impressive enough feat for the National Community Church—which has thus far limited its District ministries to its basement space at Ebenezers Coffee and movie theaters—to ...

Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church in the District, hopes to spark more civility with his new book, “Please Sorry Thanks.” (Photo courtesy Multnomah/Random House, used ...

Around Washington, DC, you can see signs of the upcoming ... they win or lose jobs,” said Mark Batterson, pastor of National Community Church, a multisite congregation in DC.