Metropolitan Newsletter - Week of September 23, 2023
Grace and peace to you and yours.
During the weekend, we invite you to join us in worship in the sanctuary or online tomorrow, Sunday, September 24. Service for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost begins at 10 am and is live streamed on Facebook and YouTube.
During the week, we encourage your presence in Church school on Sundays at 8:30am, Morning Meditations with Metropolitan at 7 am Monday through Friday, the Men's Prayer Call at 7:30 am on Monday, and Noonday and Pastor's Study at noon and 7pm.
Engage with us this week - You're invited to the March on Washington Film Festival starting tomorrow, Sept 24 through Sept.30. Use the discount code MAMEC at checkout to claim your free pass to participate virtually, in-person or both. The closing event, Pulpits, Protest & Power: The Church and The Civil Rights Movement will include: talks from Rev. Delman Coates, Rev. Stephen A. Green, Dr. Patrick Lundy & The Ministers of Music, Urban Cusp founder Rahiel Tesfamariam, as well as a special performance from Gospel legend Yolanda Adams.
Need to join via phone? You can dial in for an audio-only livestream at 1-929-205-6099, 975804722.
Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel and you'll be notified every time we are live. You can subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/metropolitaname.
We are so thrilled to invite you to a night of music and spiritual inspiration at “Pulpits, Protest & Power: The Church and The Civil Rights Movement,” and evening reception and concert presented by the March on Washington Film Festival!
Taking place Saturday, September 30th at 7:00 PM at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., this event will celebrate activists, preachers, and artists of the past and present, who have harnessed the power of faith and community in the name of Civil Rights.
The night’s lineup includes talks from Rev. Delman Coates, Rev. Stephen A. Green, Dr. Patrick Lundy & The Ministers of Music, Urban Cusp founder Rahiel Tesfamariam, as well as a special performance from Gospel legend Yolanda Adams.
Our friends at MOWFF have granted Metropolitan 100 discount passes to participate in the festival (in person or virtually) for FREE. Use discount code MAMEC at checkout to claim your free pass.
Please join us this week, Monday-Friday, from 7 am-7:15 am for “Meditations with Metropolitan.” To sign up to offer a meditation or share your prayer requests, email the Morning Meditations team at prayer.metro1518@gmail.com.
The Men's Prayer Call is a sacred space where brothers can share and explore their relationship with God in Christ Jesus. All brothers are encouraged to join. The call will be every Monday Morning from 7:30 am – 7:45 am on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 767 5679 7276
Passcode: y28Ma2
Train up your child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it. Church School meets each Sunday morning at 8:30 am, and concludes at 10am in Douglass Hall. There are classes available for EVERYONE! We will be excited to see you in attendance!
Save the Date: The Metropolitan AME Church School cordially invites you to attend the 2023 Homecoming program on Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 8:30 am in Douglass Hall. The theme is "It's a Family Affair." Please join the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church School family in celebrating Homecoming through music, a puppet show, class reflections and fellowship.
Noonday and Pastor's Study continues at noon and 7pm on September 13. We continue to read Dr. Judy Fentress-Williams' Holy Imagination: A Literary and Theological Introduction to the Whole Bible. We invite you to join us as we contemplate the scripture and its implications as we engage in the world. Join us on Zoom & YouTube.
Girls Who Code returns to Metropolitan today, September 23rd, fostering sisterhood through coding programs such as HTML, Python, Javascript, and more! Meetings are Saturdays from 11am to 12pm via zoom. Contact cprimas@msn.com to sign up for the Fall 2023 session.
College Connection Ministry Resumes
After interruption due to the pandemic, the College Connection Ministry is seeking the names of Metropolitan AME Church students who are currently pursuing an undergraduate degree or who are enrolled in a certificate-granting post-secondary program. The student or family must be a member of Metropolitan with participation in church or church school activities within the past year. During the fall semester, the student will receive communication and a gift from the Ministry. No later than October 13, 2023, please send your student’s name, mailing address, and e-mail address to: colconnminmet@gmail.com.
Thank you - Dianne G. Black and Marsha Turner Botts
The Sarah Allen Missionary Society Food Bank of the Metropolitan AME Church is excited to announce that in-person food bank operations, will resume today, Saturday, September 23 from 9 am to 3 pm. Free Parking will be available on Saturday, September 23rd at the NEA Parking Garage for Food Bank Volunteers beginning at 8:00 am. For more information, please contact Sister Virginia Boateng
Save the Date for Metropolitan Speaks: an author symposium featuring Metropolitan writers hosted by Metropolitan's Sons and Daughters of Allen. The event will take place in Douglass Hall on October 7 from 2-4pm. Come join us for this free event. You will have an opportunity to meet the authors, hear excerpts from their work, and enjoy a meet-and-greet reception with refreshments.
Veterans Day at the World War II Memorial
Save the Date: The Friends of the National World War II Memorial invites you to celebrate Veterans Day at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC on Saturday, November 11 at 9 a.m. ET. Please join us in paying tribute to the more than 16 million men and women who served with the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. As part of the commemoration, WWII veterans will place wreaths at the Memorial's Freedom Wall to remember their fallen brothers and sisters.
...we are answering God’s call for the present age. We are planning to provide housing for unhoused veterans. We fight ecological apartheid and climate injustice by organizing people around the nation to ensure that Black, brown, and poor communities are not doomed to be stifling heat islands... We fight the displacement of Black people in the District of Columbia. We stand up against legislation that would further criminalize Black youth in our city.
-Pastor William H. Lamar IV
We're grateful for your generosity.
There are several ways to give:
via check mailed to Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street NW, Washington, DC. 20005;
via Credit card: on our website and via Realm;
via Text: To text to give, text “metro1518” to 73256;
via Cash App: $MetropolitanAME
“Truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Let us continue to lift each other in prayer - please pray for those experiencing grief or in need of health, strength, and healing.
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