Emory Fellowship: A United Methodist Congregation

“Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." -Jesus (Matthew 11:28)

Life lessons. They bless us mightily — particularly in the right seasons and at the right times. Thank God for them. In this season of wonder, of possibility, of anxiety, and even stress, Jesus in his farewell discourse leaves us life lessons that can and will bless us even in this moment of time and history. Please journey with us deeper into the gospel of John over these next eight weeks as we thank God and praise God for lessons that will last a lifetime.

Weekly Prayers are resuming after Labor Day!

Maintaining confidentialities is critical to the development, care and growth of deep, long-lasting relationships. Knowing that one can keep our confidences removes the threat of betrayal, division, shame, and the energy necessary to rebuild relationships. But it requires work. Work that can produce good fruit.

Your encouragement today: work to maintain confidences, honor confidences, and build healthy relationships! (Proverbs 25:9-10) !

-Pastor Daniels

Free groceries for D.C. Seniors! 🍎 If you're a D.C. resident aged 55+, you may qualify for free, nutritious groceries each month.

Call 202-644-9880 to check your eligibility! Courtesy of Capital Area Food Bank and The Washington Home.

The next STEM Ministry session explores breadboard circuit design! Join us this Saturday, August 31st.

This session is suitable for all ages (younger children are encouraged to attend with a parent).

Location is the Emory PSH Room on Level P1. https://www.emoryfellowship.org/stem-ministry

How are you doing with August's health & wellness challenge? Remember, this month we're working on our abs! 🙌🏽 Pick any daily ab exercise from the list below and do it for at least two minutes (feel free to rest in between!). If you're more advanced, do 3-5 sets of one minute.

Here are a few exercise options:

🔹Basic crunch (floor or chair)
🔹Bicycle (floor or chair)
🔹Plank (floor or chair)
🔹Russian Twists (floor or chair)
🔹Oblique crunch (floor or chair)
🔹Lying Leg Lifts (floor)
🔹Chair Leg Lifts (chair)

For more support, check out www.emoryfellowship.org/health-wellness.

Remember: we're taking a summer break! Please note that all Weekly Prayer & Study activities will resume after Labor Day:

🔹Tuesday 7 pm Prayers
🔹Wednesday 12 noon Bible Study
🔹Wednesday Night Live 7 pm
🔹Thursday 12 noon prayers

These activities are on hiatus until after Labor Day!

8 Daily Prayers over 8 Weeks. 🙏🏽 An important time of opportunities and challenges calls for our congregation to enter into a deep season of prayer together. Join us in prayer.

1️⃣ Lord, please move upon us to daily invite people to a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ, and may our spirit of invitation be so strong, that it pours over into our congregation experiencing at least 10 guests per Sunday (Matthew 28:16-20).

2️⃣ Jesus, please work within us to intentionally raise up fresh, new leadership to support existing leadership in every area of ministry within Emory (Luke 6:12-16).

3️⃣ Lord, please work within us particularly to raise up leaders who will support and strengthen our children’s and youth ministries (Matthew 19:14).

4️⃣ Jesus, by the power of your Holy Spirit, we petition you to heal and deliver each and every one of us and our family members experiencing illness, anxiety, and undue stress, and that we would have the courage to testify about how you did it (Luke 8:40-56).

5️⃣ Lord, position us profoundly to increase and expand our capacity to end hunger and eradicate poverty in our community through feeding people, housing people affordably, and any other means you deem necessary (Mark 6:30-44).

6️⃣ Jesus, please open every door for our Calvary Place affordable housing project to be built and to bless people in need (Jeremiah 29:4-7)

7️⃣ Jesus, we petition you to open every door needed for us to resolve our Beacon Center debt, so that we owe no one anything but love (Romans 13:8).

8️⃣ Jesus, we pray that you would mightily and miraculously perform signs and wonders in our midst daily, and that Divine awe overtake our congregation and community (Acts 2:43).

We thank you for joining us in this special and holy endeavor – 8 prayers daily for the next 8 weeks as a part of your regular prayer routine. We look forward to seeing, hearing and experiencing the miracles our God will perform for God's glory!

-Pastor Daniels, Pastor Milton, and the Emory Prayer Team

God desires God’s righteousness to flourish in each of us. May we lift away those things and people who hinder this from happening and simply let God have God’s way.

Your encouragement today: remove the obstacles to God’s blessing, and watch God flourish in and around us! (Proverbs 25:4-5) !

-Pastor Daniels

Will we see you at our next STEM Ministry session, this Saturday, August 31st? We're exploring breadboard circuit design!

This session is suitable for all ages (younger children are encouraged to attend with a parent).

Location is the Emory PSH Room on Level P1. https://www.emoryfellowship.org/stem-ministry

Join us TOMORROW for our Food & Supply Distribution! Emory Beacon of Light is offering food, hygiene products, essential household and school supplies to help our community shine! ✨ This effort is for anyone having challenges meeting all the monthly financial demands necessary to stay afloat. Please come out!

August 24, 2024
9 am - 12 pm

6100 Georgia Ave NW
Washington, DC 20011

For more info and register, visit: https://bit.ly/AUG24EBOL. Thank you to Bread of Life, Inc in Houston for partnering with us to make this happen!

Dear Emory Family:

Blessings to you! 🙏🏽 And blessings to Pastor Milton, Rev. LaTaska Nelson, our executive director of the Emory Beacon of Light, Inc., Michael Cabrera, and ALL of our volunteers who have worked so hard with our Bread of Life, Inc. partners this week to prepare for our major food AND household product distribution tomorrow morning from 9 am to 12 noon. Hope you can and will come by.

You’ve heard this in church, but I want to stress again the importance of community and congregation, congregation and community. As the Emory congregation, we are serving our community, but remember WE ARE community as well.

With this said, if YOU or YOUR family is in need of food or household products because things are tight and you need support, please register, or show up to register tomorrow and get a bag and a box. 💗

Our aim is to offer a WHOLE life to everyone — and that includes you and me.

See you tomorrow!
Pastor Daniels

Register: https://bit.ly/AUG24EBOL

We appreciate that so many of you continue to give faithfully and sacrificially to the Emory Fellowship! Your giving and generosity allows us to lead more people to WHOLE lives. 🙌🏽

There are several ways to give, and Emory has partnered with electronic giving provider SecureGive as the preferred way for you to give tithes and offerings. https://www.emoryfellowship.org/give

Hello All,

Thanks to your dedication and service, we have made incredible strides in our preparation process! We have completed preparing 350,000 pounds of products 🙌🏽 and will not be needing any more volunteers today or tomorrow.

However, we WILL need you Saturday! Please register to volunteer here https://emory.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/192/responses/new and show up Saturday morning at 7:00 AM!

Thank you! Please share the information with everyone. We are getting ready to do great things!

Peace and blessings,
Troy

Sending Back-to-School Blessings to all students and teachers in the Emory family!

Vamos, 24 de Agosto de 2024! Ofrecemos alimentos, productos de hygiene, y utiles escolares y domesticos esenciales GRATIS para ayudar a nuestra comunidad brillar.

https://bit.ly/AUG24EBOL

Volunteers needed! 💗 Please help us prepare for the BIG food & supply giveaway happening at Emory on Saturday, August 24th!

Time slots available for sign-up:

🔹 Wednesday, August 21 (morning, afternoon, or evening hours)

🔹 Thursday August 22 (morning, afternoon, or evening hours)

🔹 Saturday, August 24 (EVENT DAY, 7am - 2pm; we need about 80 volunteers!)

Sign up at https://www.emoryfellowship.org or contact Pastor Sharon at [email protected]. Thank you!

Together we thrive! 🙌🏽 Mark your calendar for our Food & Supply Distribution this Saturday, August 24th. Emory Beacon of Light is offering food, hygiene products, essential household and school supplies to help our community shine! ✨

August 24, 2024
9 am - 12 pm

6100 Georgia Ave NW
Washington, DC 20011

For more info and register, visit: https://bit.ly/AUG24EBOL. Thank you to our amazing sponsors who help make this possible!

Take care of the outside work first, and then build the inside. One equips one for the other. One provides a foundation for the other. Both require our intimate attention.

Your encouragement today: handle your external business, then build your personal foundation. And, let them feed each other. (Proverbs 24:27) !

-Pastor Daniels

Together we thrive! 🙌🏽 Mark your calendar for our Food & Supply Distribution on August 24th. Emory Beacon of Light is offering food, hygiene products, essential household and school supplies to help our community shine! ✨

August 24, 2024
9 am - 12 pm

6100 Georgia Ave NW
Washington, DC 20011

For more info and register, visit: https://bit.ly/AUG24EBOL. Thank you to our amazing sponsors who help make this possible!

See you tomorrow! https://www.emoryfellowship.org/women