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The assembly moved to a rented building at 1420 H Street, NE, and later to a rented building at 245-15th Street, SE. In 1938, the assembly constructed a chapel at 5720 South Dakota Avenue, NE, in Washington.
After the chapel at South Dakota Avenue was sold, the assembly services were held in the SDA’s church building on Riggs Road in Adelphi, Maryland on a rental basis, during the construction of the New Hampshire Avenue Gospel Chapel at 12608 New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, still its current location. The first services were held in the chapel on May 24, 1964, and according to Letters of Interest (1966-June/July), "the following Sunday, a number saved in the Sunday school, who were waiting with real anticipation for the new building, were baptized. Formal dedicatory services were held June 6 and 7, 1964, conducted by [[Alfred Perks Gibbs|Alfred P. Gibbs]] and [[George McCulloch Landis|George M. Landis]], both of which who had also ministered at the opening of the Chillum Heights building in 1938. Mr. Gibbs continued with special gospel and ministry meetings, and Mr. Landis followed later with special ministry of church truth.
Lloyd Wineberg, Thomas Hall, and Marlow Olsen were leading brethren for many years. The Sunday Schools have always been important in the assembly. Dorothy Peter (Aunt Dot) is especially remembered for her Sunday School interests. The superintendents have included Lloyd Wineberg, Lou Wieland, Don Kuester, Fred Corley, Ira Mitchell, Ron Gaskins, Rick Markley, Dan Solanki, and Doug Crow. Sunday School picnics were initially held once a year, then twice a year the Saturday before school closed and a week after it opened in the fall.
In the 1960's, a gospel radio program, "Your Bible and Mine" was broadcast locally over AM and FM each Sunday morning on WDON-1540 at 8:30 a.m.
The assembly presently has an Awana club that meets thru the school year for primary school children, as well as a Good News Club, sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship for primary thru middle school children. Additionally, there continues a Sunday School ministry, as well as a youth group.
==Locations==
===Washington D.C.===
* Frank Gustava Reubsam's home @ 5224 Illinois Ave., NW 1916
* Nicholas Fillman's home @ 1422-22nd St., SE (Twining City) 1917+
* [http://brethrenpedia.org/index.php/Maryland_history History of Some Assemblies] by Robert L. Peterson
* [[https://www.nhagc.org/ NHAGC's website]
* Letters of Interest: 1966-June/July