I don't know - the Quad Cities is quite a large area, so I don't know why there aren't any Reformed churches there (actually there are a couple RCA and perhaps a CRC there, but no 'tr' denominations). Eastern Iowa is EXTREMELY Catholic and Lutheran, though so breaking in is probably seen as very hard to do. It would be akin, perhaps, to trying to plant a Methodist Episcopal church in extreme Northwest Iowa or extreme Northwest Washington, both of which are EXTREMELY Dutch. There is an OPC congregation in Independence, quite a way from the Quad Cities (where Lon Wadkins is a member) and a PCA in Walker, not too far from Independence. The nearest congregations otherwise are in Des Moines.

It's quite a difficult situation in much of Iowa - and some of it has to do with demographic, but I do long for some reformed presence here, and for those in the Quads - it's sorely needed.

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