WASHINGTON (RNS) The White House on Monday (June 29) denied a report that President Obama has decided to make the Camp David presidential retreat hischurch home.

“The President and First Family continue to look for a church home,” a White House spokesman said Monday. “They have enjoyed worshipping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family.”

Time magazine reported Monday that White House aides had said Obama opted for Camp David’s Evergreen Chapel, a nondenominational church, so that he could worship more privately.

“A number of factors drove the decision — financial, political, personal — but chief among them was the desire to worship without being on display,” the magazine reported on its Web site. “Obama was reportedly taken aback by the circus stirred up by his visit to Nineteenth Street Baptist in January. Lines started forming three hours before the morning service, and many longtime members were literally left out in the cold as the church filled with outsiders eager to see the new president.”

Obama, who visited the Baptist church two days before his inauguration, worshipped at Washington National Cathedral for an inaugural prayer service on Jan. 21 and at St. John’s Episcopal Church — across Lafayette Square from the White House — on Easter Sunday.

There has been much speculation about where he and first lady Michelle Obama family will worship, especially in light of their decision to part ways with their controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago.