Weekly Bulletin | Metropolitan AME Church

Opening Selection

Exhortation

Doxology

Call to Worship

Morning Hymn

Prayers of the People

Prayer Response

Pastoral Moment

Welcome to Metropolitan

Worship Through Giving

Scripture Reading

Sermonic Selection

Sermon

Invitation to Christian Discipleship

Benediction

We Love You Forever by Tasha Cobbs & You Are My Strength by William Murphy

United Voices of Metropolitan

Rev. Cozette Thomas

United Voices of Metropolitan

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye Heavenly Host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.

Rev. Thomas A. Brackeen, Jr.

Leader: We gather on the bridge between memory and hope, giving thanks for 188 years of God's faithfulness through Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

People: We stand upon faithful foundations, grateful for those who came before us.

Leader: We honor the ancestors, saints, pastors, members, and community builders whose prayers, sacrifices, and prophetic witness made this moment possible.

People: We receive their legacy with gratitude and courage.

Leader: We celebrate a church that has proclaimed the gospel, pursued justice, nurtured generations, and remained steadfast through every season.

People: We are the living witness of God's sustaining grace.

Leader: Today, we cross the bridge together—trusting the God who has brought us this far to lead us into an abundant future filled with hope, imagination, and possibility.

People: We embrace God's call to build, serve, love, and transform the world.

Leader: Let us worship the God who is our firm foundation, our faithful guide, and the architect of our future.

All: With grateful hearts, unwavering faith, and joyful expectation, we celebrate our past, commit ourselves to the present, and step boldly into God's abundant future. Amen.

The Church's One Foundation

African Methodist Epsicopal Church Hymnal #519

United Voices of Metropolitan

The Church’s one foundation

Is Jesus Christ her Lord;

She is His new creation

By water and the word.

From heaven He came and sought her

To be His holy bride;

With His own blood He bought her,

And for her life He died.

Elect from every nation,

Yet one o’er all the earth,

Her charter of salvation,

One Lord, one faith, one birth;

One holy name she blesses,

Partakes one holy food,

And to one hope she presses,

With every grace endued.

Though with a scornful wonder

Men see her sore oppressed,

By schisms rent asunder,

By heresies distressed:

Yet saints their watch are keeping,

Their cry goes up, "How long?"

And soon the night of weeping

Shall be the morn of song.

'Mid toil and tribulation,

And tumult of her war,

She waits the consummation

Of peace forevermore;

Till with the vision glorious,

Her longing eyes are blest,

And the great Church victorious

Shall be the Church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union

With God, the Three in One,

And mystic sweet communion

With those whose rest is won.

O happy ones and holy!

Lord, give us grace that we,

Like them, the meek and lowly,

On high may dwell with Thee.

Rev. Geoffrey S. Tate, Sr.

Glorious Is Thy Name

by COGIC International Mass Choir

United Voices of Metropolitan

Pastor William H. Lamar IV

Welcome to Metropolitan

United Voices of Metropolitan

In this house, you'll find love

In this house, you'll find peace,

In this house, you'll find overwhelming joy,

A strong foundation, an historic legacy,

Welcome to Metropolitan

Welcome to Metropolitan AME

Love, Peace, Joy, God's got it here for you

Welcome

Welcome to Metropolitan

Welcome to Metropolitan AME

Your giving is a wonderful expression of God’s generosity. There are several ways to give: via check mailed to Metropolitan AME Church at 1518 M Street NW,

Washington, DC 20005, via credit card on the website at metropolitanamec.org/give via Realm, and via text.

To text to give, text "metro1518" to 73256.

Antonio Harrison

Ephesians 3: 14-21 NRSVUE

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Even Me

By Patrick Lundy

United Voices of Metropolitan

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Crumpton

Pastor William H. Lamar IV