Metropolitan Weekly Newsletter - Week of October 5, 2025
- Evan Taylor
- Oct 4
- 9 min read
Updated: Oct 9
Worship for the Seventeenth Sunday of Pentecost and Holy Communion Sunday, starts tomorrow at 10 am in the sanctuary and via live stream on Facebook and YouTube.
We encourage your presence this week in Church school on Sundays at 8:30am; Morning Meditations with Metropolitan starting at 6:50 am for music and meditation Monday through Friday; and the Men's Prayer Call at 7:30 am on Monday; Comfort, Care, Lament and Share is Thursday at 7pm; Noon Day and Pastor's Study is on break.
Engage in ministry with us - Step Up for Veterans and Families Sock Drive in Lee-Glover Conference Room (Oct, 1-Nov. 2); Quarterly Conference with Presiding Elder Weaver at 7pm in Douglass Hall (Oct. 7); Kelly Lay Organization Back to Basics Series: Remembering Worship using the Liturgy of the AME Church (Oct. 18); Church School Homecoming (Oct. 19); Lorraine Gillian Health Commission Vaccine Clinic (Oct. 19); Sign up to Volunteer with the SAMs Food Bank (Oct. 25); Homecoming Sunday (Oct. 26); Sign up for Robotics with Mike Takes on Science (Nov. 1); Kelly Lay Organization Back to Basics Series: Session with Rev. Dr. Mark Tyler (Dec. 20).
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 pleased to announce that transportation services resumed on January 5, 2025, after a long hiatus. Starting in January, transportation will be available on the first and third Sundays of each month. Services may be expanded to other Sundays based on the demand. If you are interested in transportation to and from the church, please contact Ellen and Tyrone Fizer at 301-579-2482. We look forward to serving you and helping you get to church with ease!
The Freedom Table will be made available most Sundays in Douglass Hall (except Sundays when there are post-worship events/activities) for families that need to step out of the Sanctuary for a freedom space for active students while still being able to watch service. Middle and high school students are needed to help set up and clean up in exchange for student service hours.
Please e-mail Youthministry@metropolitanamec.org for the Schedule and Volunteer information.
Comfort, Care, Lament and Share has returned. Thursdays at 7pm., If you are in need of prayer, emotional support, or just looking for someone to hold space with, Sis. Satira, Sis. Flavia, or Rev. Brandon Cox will make ourselves available via email/Zoom as needed.
Please join us this week, Monday-Friday for “Meditations with Metropolitan.” Join us at 6:50am for music with the meditation starting at 7 am. 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!
You're invited to join the Metropolitan AME Church School Homecoming program on October 19, 2025 at 8:30 am. This year's theme is Legends and Lessons. We hope to see you there.
The Metropolitan AME Veterans Council is a ministry that supports military service members, veterans, and their families by providing information and prayerful support. All service members, veterans, and family members are invited to attend. Join us on the second Wednesday of each month at 6pm. For more information, please contact Dr. Bryon L. Garner at bryongarner@gmail.com.
The Youth and Family Ministry is in need of amazing people like you to serve for upcoming events and other additional projects. Please scan the QR Code and or fill out the Microsoft form to share your interest and availability.
Passionate about faith, culture, and digital creativity? Join the Metro-P Digital Engagement team at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church! We’re looking for volunteers to help co-create meaningful content for Metro-P. Roles include producers, hosts, editors, videographers, social media leads, and more. Ready to make an impact? Scan the QR code to apply or contact Naomi or Joy for more info!
NEED MORE TIME to submit your contribution to Metropolitan’s 2026 anthology? The publication will not be rushed to ensure it is intergenerational and includes all who desire to contribute. With summer travel and ministry sabbaticals, some sisters asked for more time to add their voice to Metropolitan’s anthology. A few mothers would like help for their daughters still composing their thoughts. And the welcomed suggestion to interview and transcribe the stories from our savvy seniors who don’t “live online” will make it easier for them to share their wisdom. If you will miss the Aug. 31 deadline or would like to help coordinate an interview for a senior you know, email Sister Dora at dora.muhammad@metropolitanamec.org. Look for virtual write-in sessions to help various age groups across the Connectional throughout the fall and winter.
🎓 College Connections MinistryStay Connected. Stay Supported.
Are you a college student? We want to keep in touch with you! Update your information so we can:
Pray for you 🙏🏾
Send encouragement 💌
Share scholarships info and other resources 🎯
Keep you connected to home 🏠
Come Learn to Code and Change the World! The Girls Who Code Fall session is starting soon.
Every Saturday starting September 20th thru November 8th
11:00 am-12noon via ZOOM
Middle and High School ladies are eligible
Contact Cristol Primas at cprimas@msn.com to join the next session and scan the QR code for more information about Girls Who Code.
Financial Literacy Classes for 4th–12th Graders
We’re partnering with Industrial Bank to offer financial literacy classes for students.
Interested? Please fill out the form to sign up!
The Metropolitan AME Veterans Council, in partnership with Friendship Place DC, invites you to support the Step Up for Veterans and Families Sock Drive. Every Sunday, from October 1 to November 2, 2025, please bring new, unused socks — one of the most requested items by veterans experiencing homelessness - to be placed in a collection box in Lee-Glover Conference Room. Your donations offer comfort, dignity, and care for those who served.
October 18, 2025: KLO is looking forward to kicking off its program year with their “Back to Basics: Reset, Refocus, Reignite” educational series on Saturday, October 18, 2025, with a presentation from Dr. Barbara McNeely-Bouie from the 11th District. Dr. Bouie, an expert on A.M.E. Liturgy, is the Connectional Worship Director for MCAM and will be presenting on the topic of “Remembering Worship Via the Use of the Liturgy in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.” This training will be conducted via Zoom.
More presenters and topics will be announced in the coming months.
Register to attend here or by clicking on the flyer. (KLO members do not have to register.)
Interested in joining KLO? Please contact Bro. Richard Allen Brown at rabrown1203@gmail.com. Thank you!
The Sarah Allen Missionary Society Food Bank of the Metropolitan AME Church announces that in-person food bank operations will be held on Saturday, October 25th from 9 am to 3 pm. The SAMS Food Bank is also accepting new food bank recipients. Scan the QR code above or click this link to sign up for volunteer opportunities with the SAMS Food Bank. For more information, please contact Sister Virginia Boateng at vab-59@hotmail.com.
🤖 Robotics with Mike Takes on Science
📅 Saturday, November 1st 🕚 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM📍Metropolitan AME Church
Join us for an exciting hands-on Robotics Session with Mike Takes on Science! Perfect for curious minds who love building, coding, and exploring technology.
⚡ Spots are limited — Register by Wednesday, October 29th!
December 20, 2025: The “Back to Basics” educational series continues as KLO welcomes Connectional Historiographer and former pastor of Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Mark Tyler. Rev. Dr. Tyler is renowned for his in-depth knowledge of the A.M.E. church and passionate social justice commitment. Information on his topic will be sent soon. This training will be conducted via Zoom.
More presenters and topics will be announced in the coming months.
Register to attend here or by clicking on the flyer. (KLO members do not have to register.)
Interested in joining KLO? Please contact Bro. Richard Allen Brown at rabrown1203@gmail.com. Thank you!
Have something to share with the congregation? Please send ALL announcement information to announcements@metropolitanamec.org. Blurbs should be no longer than 75 words. Announcements can be submitted by Tuesday for the following week OR by the 4th Sunday for the next month.
Do you have Instagram or Tik Tok? Be sure to follow our Youth and Family Ministry at @yafmamec to stay in the know!
We are at a pivotal place globally, politically, and spiritually. Our world is beautiful yet broken; holy, yet not fully healed. We have weathered similar storms with grace and strength, and we shall do so again. This is our moment to proclaim the unlimited power and majesty of our God.
All encumbrances must be eliminated so we can be an even stronger voice and catalyst for justice, livable wages, affordable housing, and food security.
We must liquidate the mortgage we assumed several years ago to restore the beauty and physical health of our beloved Metropolitan. Once free, we will have additional energy and resources to further our work to make manifest God’s reign here on earth.
In this moment, Metropolitan has a mind to work.
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1838. From its founding, Metropolitan AME Church, has and continues to do what other churches will not. We are known locally, nationally, and internationally, to be deeply spiritual and deeply engaged in the world. From anti-slavery leadership in the mid-19th century, in the harboring of runaway slaves, to organizing power, people and money toward the flourishing of all people in the District of Columbia today. Metropolitan has been not just a significant center of worship, but also an institution in the forefront of the civic, cultural, and intellectual life among African Americans and others. Today, Metropolitan is focused on theologically sound teaching and preaching in worship; combatting food insecurity through our Food Bank; addressing ecological devastation by addressing heat islands in metropolitan cities with Smart Surfaces Coalition; equipping parents and families with culturally responsive and biblically grounded teaching through the Sankofa project; and building Black Equity and Wealth through Homeownership, prioritizing community safety and holding political leaders accountable with Washington Interfaith Network.
-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;
It’s time to celebrate! Happy Birthday to all of those born during the month of October. We are grateful for another year of your life and we honor you in the month of your birth!
Happy Anniversary! We salute all couples married in the month of October. May you continue to grow in love again and again each year!
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church and Pastor Lamar have been nominated and awarded the inaugural O’Neill Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Promotion of Justice.
This award publicly recognizes and honors an unsurpassed leader whose rarified contributions shape national and global discourse and policy. This award is for leaders of exceptional merit whose pathbreaking and path-defining leadership from the bench, advocacy, religious community, civil society service, policy advancements, or other contributions qualify them for our most highly regarded honor. Not only have you demonstrated this, but so too the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has served as a beacon for freedom.
The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University was founded in 2007 on the principle that health is a human right. As such, the Institute has assisted courts, governments, legislatures, NGOs, and civil society organizations in advancing and promoting health as well as responding to human trauma and crisis throughout the globe. Through our academic programs at Georgetown, we have educated leaders that now reside in nearly forty countries throughout the world.
“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. Lord, hear the prayers of your people.
Have a prayer you would like to share in community, you can leave your prayers on our prayer wall here.
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