I often refer to NCC as a revolving door church. What I mean by that is this: our turnover rate is approximately 30-40% per year. It used to be 50% per year! We had a brand new church every two years!

Half of that is due to demographics. We’re 73% single twenty-somethings who are at a very transient stage of life. The other half of it is due to geographics. DC is the intern capital of the world. It’s not uncommon to have someone attend NCC for a three-month internship.

That used to drive us crazy, but we’ve really embraced that as part of our unique calling. We’re a revolving door church.

On one hand it means we have to grow approximately 30-40% just to break even from year-to-year. But it has also been our saving grace. It’s very difficult to plant and grow a church in a city that doesn’t have population growth or new housing developments. We’ve been able to build a church in DC because so many people walk through the revolving door all the time. And it’s primarily twenty-somethings.

Revolving doors can make you dizzy! But it is part of our calling as a church.