HomeMy Public PortalAboutTOL PR 2010-06-08 Open Arms
Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Debi Parry
Business Retention Coordinator
dparry@leesburgva.gov
703‐737‐7023
Christ Community Lutheran Church Celebrates New Worship
Center & Expansion of Daycare Facility
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Scheduled for Sunday, June 13, 2010
Leesburg, VA (June 8, 2010) ‐ At noon on Sunday, June 13, 2010, Town of Leesburg officials will
hold a ribbon cutting for Christ Community Lutheran Church’s new worship center and the
expansion of Leesburg Open Arms Christian Child Development Center, located at 826 South
King Street. A Celebration Service led by Pastor David Betzner will follow at 1:00 p.m.
Launched in September 2005 as a mission congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod,
Christ Community Lutheran Church held its first worship services in December 2005 at Francis
Hazel Reid Elementary School in Leesburg. Leesburg Open Arms Christian Child Development
Center opened on September 8, 2008 in the South King Street Shopping Center, as a ministry of
the church. Shortly after opening the daycare facility, Christ Community Lutheran Church
moved its worship services to the Olde Izaak Walton Park Building, located just behind the
daycare facility. The church and daycare facility will now be consolidated into a single,
permanent facility at the South King Street Shopping Center. Using the theme “Come Grow
With Us”, Christ Community Lutheran Church is launching an effort to introduce the church and
its new home to the greater Leesburg community.
In its first 15 months since opening, Leesburg Open Arms enrollment had grown from 35
children to nearly 300. The center has received excellent local recognition including being
voted "2009 Best Daycare Center" by Leesburg Today newspaper's annual readers' survey, was
included in the “2009 Top Daycare List” by Northern Virginia Magazine, and was nominated for
the “New Business Award” as part of the Town of Leesburg’s 2010 Business Appreciation
Awards. For more information please visit www.christcommunitylutheran.org or
www.leesburgopenarms.org.
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