Dumbarton United Methodist Church

Dumbarton Church’s listserv is an extension of our worshipping community. Its purpose is to provide online communication between people in our "church community"-- which includes church members, constituents, and kindred spirits both in the metropolitan Washington DC area (DMV) and beyond.

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✨Beer & Hymns!✨

Thursday, July 18 at 7:00 pm

All are welcome for a fun evening of singing together, followed by some time for fellowship on the front steps. BYOB (both adult beverages and non-alcoholic drinks are welcome). 🍻🎵🎶

✨Appreciative Inquiry Process During the Season of Pentecost✨

If you have not yet participated in this process -- it's not too late. We invite your input as we discern our next faithful steps in mission. You may send your written thoughts to Rev. Rachel Cornwell, Kathryn Johnson, or Chip Aldridge. Share your stories of how experiences in and through Dumbarton have helped you grow in faith and live a transformed life.

These questions may guide your sharing:

❓Where have you experienced the presence of God at Dumbarton?
❓What makes you come alive?
❓What are the truths that we are willing to stake our lives on?
❓What’s something we have at Dumbarton that people can’t find any place else?

📣 Due to the hot & humid conditions this weekend, July 7th Sunday Worship at 10:00 am will be held in the social hall.

While it will be somewhat cooler in the social hall and we hope to have improved the sound and video quality, we still expect noise from cooling fans and kids close at hand in a smaller space. Your patience is appreciated.

Helping hands needed:

🧡 help set up the worship space at 9:30 am
💜 help put away chairs, etc. following worship

We had an incredible time at our intergenerational Vacation Bible School last weekend! Thank you to all our volunteers and hosts -- everyone from Mount Vernon Place UMC, Dumbarton UMC, and Asbury United Methodist Church-Washington D.C. who joined us and made it so special.

We're especially grateful to Reconciling Ministries Network for providing the "Just Like Me" curriculum and to Common Good City Farm for their wonderful partnership. This VBS reminded us all of our worth, the importance of community, and the unique gifts we each bring. ❤️🧡💛💚💙

🔥June 23: Sermon: "Extravagant Generosity" (Wealth Distribution)🔥
- Small group discussion after worship; bring a brown bag lunch!

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The season of Pentecost is an ideal time to focus attention on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and the mission of the church. Our worship series will focus on how the Holy Spirit works in individual lives (personal piety and holiness) and in the corporate church (bold mission and ministry).

As a response to this series, we are inviting the congregation to engage in a process of appreciative inquiry to help us discern our next faithful steps in mission.

We will explore questions such as:

❤️ Where have you experienced the presence of God at Dumbarton?
🧡 What makes you come alive?
💛 What are the truths that we are willing to stake our lives on?
💚 What’s something we have at Dumbarton that people can’t find any place else?

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PRIDE PARADE | Saturday, JUNE 8

🌈 Dumbartonians will march with the United Methodist Churches of the National Capital Area for the Annual DC Pride Parade.

🌈 The Methodist contingent will gather in the Red Zone staging area – T Street NW Between 15th & 14th NW, where Communion will be celebrated by the Q***r Clergy Caucus at 2:30 pm. Look for the Capital Area United Methodists sign (usually mounted on a truck). Parade steps off at 3 (be prepared to wait).

🌈 The parade route is about 1.5 mi down 14th St to Freedom Plaza.

🌈 Wear solid color bright shirts (NO Church name shirts), comfortable shoes, bring water. Plan on a joyous good time!

Fundraiser Luncheon & Silent Auction for Project Transformation DC
Sunday, June 9 (after 10 am worship)

You won’t want to miss the food, the fellowship, and the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of DC kids. The fundraiser lunch is $20.00. ($10 for children 5 - 10, Free for kids under 5)

Make your lunch reservation (or additional donation to Project Transformation) today: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Form/22c85791-0309-45ee-a194-e091888f6c40

All money raised goes directly to Project Transformation. With your help they can expand to reach 40-50 under-served elementary age kids this summer.

📣 WORSHIP TIME Change for Summer!

⏰ Beginning Sunday, June 2 worship will be at 10:00 AM in the Sanctuary
⏰ Adult Ed & Choir will take a summer break
⏰ Childcare provided each Sunday during worship
⏰ The Social Hall will be set up as a "COOLING SPACE" with the large screen TV there live-streaming Zoom Church

🔥 Fresh Wind, New Fire! 🔥
A Worship Series for Pentecost Season & Appreciative Inquiry Process of Discernment

During the season of Pentecost we focus on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and the mission of the church. Our worship series will explore how the Holy Spirit works in individual lives (personal piety and holiness) and in the corporate church (bold mission and ministry).

Join us after service this Sunday for a discussion as we discern our next faithful steps in mission. Bring a bag lunch!

Can't wait to sing and dance to these songs at VBS!

Just Like Me Music Video

The season of Pentecost is an ideal time to focus attention on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and the mission of the church. Our worship series will focus on how the Holy Spirit works in individual lives (personal piety and holiness) and in the corporate church (bold mission and ministry).

As a response to this series, we are inviting the congregation to engage in a process of appreciative inquiry to help us discern our next faithful steps in mission.

We will explore questions such as:

❤️ Where have you experienced the presence of God at Dumbarton?
🧡 What makes you come alive?
💛 What are the truths that we are willing to stake our lives on?
💚 What’s something we have at Dumbarton that people can’t find any place else?

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May 19: The Holy Spirit ... Here ... Now (Pentecost) - Acts 2:1-13
May 26: Switched On (Empowered by the Spirit) - Acts 2:14-36
- Small group discussion after worship; bring a brown bag lunch!

✨We are excited to welcome guest preacher Laura B. Kigweba this Sunday. All are welcome to join us in worship!✨

Laura B. Kigweba (she/her) is an emerging eco-womanist practitioner and facilitator. She loves, values, and respects the ways the Black women’s experience conjures sacred spaces of healing and liberation for all and incorporates that beauty into her vocation and ministry. Trained as a pastoral leader and organizer in the United Methodist Church. Laura is also rooted in lineages of faith and social change that embraces the presence of the holy in co-creating the worlds we deserve. She is currently a provisional elder in the Baltimore Washington Conference and serves in extension ministry as the Director of Grassroots Organizing at the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. For rest and play, she enjoys reading five books at a time, walks outside, playing hide and seek with her dog King Kigweba, and relearning her ancestral language of Kirundi.

Our Dumbarton witness at the UMC General Conference is strong!

Earth Day Opportunity 🌍✨
Friday, May 3 at 10:00 am

If you missed the chance to help the Earth on Earth Day, you have another opportunity, right in Dumbarton's garden. Although the garden is planted with hearty native plants, Vetch, an invasive alien plant is spreading and taking over. Come and w**d for whatever time you can spare. Many w**ders make light the work! Bring gardening or work gloves and hand tools (trowels, pruners, shovels, etc.). 🌱🌼

✨Hear the “Good News" of Easter during the upcoming weeks through powerful testimonies of courage, kindness, strength, and over-coming➖Resurrection Stories ➖because we need these hopeful stories so much!✨

On Sunday, April 14, we continue our Easter Season worship series proclaiming that we are a people who believe “do-overs” are possible! The stories of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances live alongside modern-day turn-around stories to inspire and encourage us to live fully as “Easter people.”

We all experience the death of something in our lives. Of course, there are the deaths of people we love and the grief that seems to engulf us, and eventually the resurrection of hope to live on without them. But there are other kinds of death and loss that we experience as well… death of a dream, death of an image of ourselves that we always thought we would be, death of connections and identities, death in the midst of life that involve being captive to death-dealing circumstances or substances.

Today we celebrate Easter and honor Transgender Day of Visibility. Just as the risen Christ brings hope and love into the world, let's embrace and uplift our transgender siblings with love and acceptance.

Together, we shine brighter in the light of inclusivity and compassion.

He is risen! He is risen indeed!

Come worship and celebrate Easter with us today at 11:00 am -- in person and online.
Following worship, there will be an Easter egg hunt and coffee hour in front of the church.

📷 Pictured: scenes from Maundy Thursday service.

As Holy Week unfolds, may we walk alongside Jesus in his journey to the cross, finding solace in his teachings of love and forgiveness.

Join us tomorrow for our Holy Saturday Easter Vigil:

✨Easter Vigil, Saturday, March 30, 7:00 pm✨
-- The vigil service begins as we descend into the darkness before the dawn of Easter morning. As we wait, we experience creative re-telling of the stories of our faith, a renewal of Baptism, and communion. (online only)

Zoom:
Meeting ID: 898 3876 7270 Passcode: 312148
Dial in: 301.715.8592

✨ Maundy Thursday Dinner Service, March 28, 7:00 pm ✨
We begin in the Social Hall with a simple supper (soup and bread) with reflection and prayer as we eat. Meal is followed by prayer stations for healing prayer, optional foot/hand washing, walking the labyrinth, and Holy Communion in the sanctuary. All are welcome for this participatory and immersive evening of worship and contemplation. (in person only)

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Holy Week Schedule:

✝️ Good Friday, March 29, 12-1:30 pm — "7 Last Words of Christ" Ecumenical Good Friday Service, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 3513 N St. NW, Washington DC 20007. Rev. Rachel is preaching one of the segments.

✝️ Easter Vigil, Saturday, March 30, 7:00 pm -- The vigil service begins as we descend into the darkness before the dawn of Easter morning. As we wait, we experience creative re-telling of the stories of our faith, a renewal of Baptism, and communion. (online only)

✝️ Easter Sunday Worship, March 31, 11:00 am -- Come celebrate the Resurrection with joyful worship and lots of special music! (in person & online) Coffee Hour to follow outside on the front steps (weather permitting). Children’s Easter Egg Hunt on the playground during Coffee Hour. Children, bring a basket to gather eggs!

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We come to prepare for the holiest of weeks.
We will journey through praise, with joy on our lips;
we will travel through betrayal and death,
cradling hope deep in our hearts.

Jesus leads us through this week, and we will follow,
for he is the life we long for,
he is the Word who sustains us.

We wave palm branches in anticipation,
we lay our love before him, to cushion his walk.
Setting aside all power, glory, and might, he comes:
modeling humility and obedience for all of us.

Hosanna! Hosanna!
Blessed is the One who brings us the kingdom of God.

✨Palm/Passion Sunday Worship✨

March 24, 11:00 am -- begin holy week with drumming outside on the plaza and Palm Processional at the start of worship. Join us this Sunday online or in-person!

Dumbarton Provides Dinner for Our Neighbors Who are Unhoused at Mt. Zion UMC -- 1334 29th St NW

Join us on Saturday, March 23 from 4-6 pm at Mt. Zion UMC. Food and volunteers needed! Sign up here: https://ow.ly/JVvJ50QSvUn

✨Adult Ed on March 17, 10:00 am EDT✨

You won’t want to miss this informative event! Professor Richard Rubenstein, author of 10 books, Professor Emeritus at the George Mason Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, will discuss the current Israeli war on Gaza and ways out of the current conflict.

➖Coming Up: March 24➖
You may be familiar with the hymns, “Blessed Assurance" or "Jesus is Tenderly Calling You Home.” Did you know that they were written by Franny J. Crosby who is known as the “Mother of modern congregational singing in America”? Nya Taryor will lead this program.

➖March 31 Easter Sunday: No Adult Ed➖

During Lent, our worship draws from the wisdom of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s book “On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World” as we explore what it means to seek justice and reconciliation from the individual to the societal.

Upcoming Topics include:
💜Apologizing
💜Making Different Choices
💜Atonement

Join us on Sundays at 11 AM EST in person and on Zoom!