Our Logo

Our logo bears an image of a sower,

with a Latin inscription from 1 Corinthians 3:7,

Dat Deus Incrementum,

roughly translated,

God Gives the Growth.

Paul is urging against party spirit

in speaking of the establishment of the Church in Corinth:

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

So then neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters is anything,

but God who gives the growth.

We believe this is a fitting – and biblical – motto

in considering the establishment of a church

according to a confessionally Reformed

pattern in Washington, DC.

Any growth will be given by God.

Our logo is drawn from the reverse of a medal minted in Geneva in 1555, to commemorate John Calvin’s leadership of the church in that town.

The selection of this motto illustrates the God-glorifying

impulse of the Protestant Reformation.

God, not Calvin, had prospered the church.

Dat Deus Incrementum!

Click for a high resolution image from the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies.