Sen. Barack Obama's appearance in Colorado Springs on Wednesday won't include a visit with Focus on the Family or its founder, evangelical Christian leader James Dobson.

Asked if there will be a meeting by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee with anyone from Focus, Tom Minnery, the senior vice president of government and public policy, replied by e-mail, "No there won't. No one from his campaign has called here asking for one."

The Obama campaign confirmed that no meeting with Dobson or Focus is planned. The campaign did announce that Obama's remarks Wednesday would be on national service.

Last week, Dobson ripped Obama, saying that 2006 remarks by Obama were "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology." Obama replied that Dobson was "making stuff up, maybe for his own purposes."

Obama is seeking to make inroads among evangelical voters. Today in Ohio, he said that religious groups should receive more federal social-service dollars. That was also an early initiative of the Bush administration. Dobson endorsed Bush in his 2004 re-election.

Updated with Obama campaign confirmation.