@Everett Jones and @Scott Nolan Welcome to you both, I just recently attended the CAZA Falls Church meet-up and thought it was good, did not have a lot of up sale.  

I was wondering if there was any way i can work through my local church for free?

Somebody else I know developed a church and rectory into luxury condos and had to build a $500,000 parking garage for the building. 

The only thing I can think of is going to a church or place of worship and ask them how to handle it 

I grew up going to church in FW and I went to law school in FW.

I've noticed that many lower-income people will sometimes donate a good percentage of their income to their church. 

Traction REIA holds a monthly meeting in Tysons/Falls Church, but they are more traditional in that they are usually pushing a product or a system. 

I am the proud Youth Pastor at Temple Free Will Baptist Church.

@Christian Martinez Hi there, I'm just starting out just like u and I agree with all of the above, to break it down, this us what I have made a habit of doing for 3 months now to prepare myself and to begin heading in the direction I want to go: 1: calm urself down and write a simple plan of what u want to do (ie- buy 1st REI in 6 months - 1 year.)2: write out what u need to do to achieve this (ie- start saving, educate urself, build a network if likeminded people around u, look for contacts and info in ur area)3: finances- pay urself first, have 3 accounts: SAVINGS & INVESTING, EXPENSES, CASHFLOW, put 10% for savings and 10% for investing into ur S & I acc, if u tithe 10% to ur church or charity and any expenses in ur expenses acc for any auto payments coming outer to set aside weekly amounts for any monthly payments...reasons for all this is to create a habit, to show on ur financial statement discipline and consistent records of managing ur finances and so u have money for investing.

Someone at church volunteered to mentor me.