It is safe to estimate that over 500,000 employees each day work at their desks in the office buildings of the District. These office workers and their families comprise one-third of the population of the metropolitan area. The CD seeks to bring non-Christian workers to reflect on a portion of the Psalms. The frequent reader is led toward self-help courses which local Baptist churches provide to improve their workers' relationships. Child Development Centers -Young families who earn two incomes need sites to place their children in safe, nurturing care.
Many Baptist churches have such ministries already, and others have the opportunity to build such.
Care should be made to minister to the entire family in a holistic way through the Child Development Centers. Music for Commuting - Leading musicians could develop a program which shares the Good News through music and record these for distribution by Baptist workers to fellow employees as gifts for holiday and birthday periods. I knew him from early boyhood, for his first home was the next one to my father's, and although sixty years have passed since then, I have not forgotten his attentions to a little, wicked, thoughtless boy. Through hospitality this government worker had a great influence on senators and congressmen of the early republic including John C. Calhoun, and Henry Clay. Amos Kendall, a benefactor of Calvary Baptist Church, shared both living space and working space with this early Baptist.