Editor’s Note: Many Aquila Report readers would recognize this church as the one that The Rev Edwin Elliot, Jr. (RTS Class of 1974) served as pastor (following his father) from 1978 until his death in 2009. One wonders what Edwin would think of all this.

President Obama’s campaign recently launched an outreach group, African Americans for Obama. But the church he depicts in the ad when appealing to Christians to support his campaign is actually a conservative Virginia church. Its website contains a “pro-life info” section, and its pastor told The Washington Examiner that he will not allow Obama or any other candidate to set up a “congregational captain” among their faithful.

The campaign ad includes video footage of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Manassas (Va.) while Obama, speaking over the video, asks people to rally supporters in their “faith community.”

“We don’t do an official endorsement of any political campaign,” the Rev. Dr. William Allen Church, pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Manassas, said. “But because of our conservative theology, biblical points of view — for instance, we’re pro-life and that sort of thing — so the practical implications of that come into play when people go cast their ballot,” he said. “But I do not give a precise endorsement, whatsoever.”

The pastor noted that historically African-American churches exist in the neighborhood, but his church does not identify as such. “We are multi-racial, but we don’t describe ourselves according to race,” he said. Church also said that — with respect to political allegiances — the congregation is mostly composed of Republicans and independents, with “maybe some Democrats.”