Metropolitan UMW Newsletter : April 2015 Page 1 of 12 Metropolitan Memorial, St. Luke’s & Wesley United Methodist Churches 202-363-4900 (MMUMC office) Mark Your Calendar April 2 Th Maundy Thursday, Worship (7:30pm, Metropolitan UMC) 3 F Good Friday, Seven Last Words of Christ (noon-3pm, Metropolitan) 3 F Good Friday, Tenebrae Service (7-9pm, Wesley UMC) 3 F Good Friday, Worship (7:30pm, Metropolitan UMC) 5 Su Easter 12 Su Wesley Circle informational meeting (12:30pm at Wesley UMC) 13 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm, Conference Rm) 25 Sa Great Day of Service May 11 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm, Conference Rm) 15-17 F-Su Charter for Racial Justice Seminar 23 Sa Greater Washington District UMW Prayer Breakfast (9am, Great Hall) July 29-Aug 2 National Seminar, Chicago August 24 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm, Conference Rm) September 14 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm, Conference Rm) 27 Su UMW Sunday November 7 Sa UMW Bazaar December 6 Su UMW Recognition Sunday Table Of Contents Reflections pg 2 UMW News 3-7 Metropolitan News 8-11 Circles 12 UMW Newsletter THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH April, 2015
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Metropolitan UMW Newsletter : April 2015 Page 1 of 12
Metropolitan Memorial, St. Luke’s & Wesley
United Methodist Churches
202-363-4900 (MMUMC office)
Mark Your Calendar
April
2 Th Maundy Thursday, Worship
(7:30pm, Metropolitan UMC)
3 F Good Friday, Seven Last
Words of Christ (noon-3pm,
Metropolitan)
3 F Good Friday, Tenebrae
Service (7-9pm, Wesley UMC)
3 F Good Friday, Worship
(7:30pm, Metropolitan UMC)
5 Su Easter
12 Su Wesley Circle informational
meeting (12:30pm at Wesley
UMC)
13 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm,
Conference Rm)
25 Sa Great Day of Service
May
11 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm,
Conference Rm)
15-17
F-Su
Charter for Racial Justice
Seminar
23 Sa Greater Washington District
UMW Prayer Breakfast (9am,
Great Hall)
July
29-Aug 2 National Seminar, Chicago
August
24 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm,
Conference Rm)
September
14 M UMW Board Mtg (7-8:30pm,
Conference Rm)
27 Su UMW Sunday
November
7 Sa UMW Bazaar
December
6 Su UMW Recognition Sunday
Table Of Contents
Reflections pg 2
UMW News 3-7
Metropolitan News 8-11
Circles 12
UMW Newsletter THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH
April, 2015
Metropolitan UMW Newsletter : April 2015 Page 2 of 12
UMW News
The 2015 UMW Directory is out! We have distributed a version in PDF
After you feed your body, feed your mind and soul with a mid-week study. Food for
Thought features two different study opportunities: a Bible study and a topical study.
Studies change monthly, so you can choose a Bible study one month and a topical study
the next, without missing pieces of either.
The Bible study is led by Bob Olson, co-chair of the Learning Pillar, and Rev. Charlie
Parker, the senior pastor of the Metropolitan Church. Topical studies will be led by
different individuals throughout the year.
Upcoming sessions:
Session 8: April 8-29, 2015
Bible Study: Job
Why do bad things happen to good people? Is good rewarded? Is evil punished? The book
of Job engages these questions using rich, poetic language.
Topical Study: A Hopeful Earth: Faith, Science and the Message of Jesus by Sally
Dyck and Sarah Ehrman Led by Rev. Dottie Yunger
This study pairs the Christian faith of Bishop Sally Dyck and the scientific world of her
niece, Sarah Ehrman, as they discover how the church can reach the younger generation
by joining them in the race to save the environment that God created.
Dottie Yunger is an Associate Pastor at Metropolitan. She currently provides leadership to the service team. Previously Dottie was the Executive Director of Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, an interfaith environmental organization in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. She has served at Capitol Hill UMC as the student associate for reconciliation ministries, which included multicultural ministry and creation care. Dottie is a marine biologist who has worked for the Smithsonian Institution, Discovery Channel, and the National Aquarium. She has studied ecosystem modeling and sea turtle conservation, mostly in warm, sunny climates. Dottie received a Bachelor of Science in marine science from the University of Maryland, and her Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary. Continued on page 15
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Metropolitan & Community News
Continued from page 14
Session 9: May 6-27, 2015
Bible Study: The Acts of the Apostles
In this sequel to the Gospel of Luke, the writer tells of the birth of the early church, the
ministry of Peter, the conversion and missionary journeys of Paul, and the activity of the
Holy Spirit as Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire. With healings and
miracles, persecution and suffering, contentious church dinners, shipwrecks, snakes and
trials, the Acts of the Apostles tells a fascinating story of our beginnings as a faith.
Topical Study: “Understanding Islam”
Led by Dr. Homayra Ziad
According to the Pew Research Center, there are more than 1.6 billion Muslims in the
world, making Islam the second largest religion globally. Islamic extremists dominate the
headlines, but what do we really know about Islam? Dr. Homayra Ziad will lead us
through a study of the origins and central beliefs of Islam, and explain the differences
between various sects of Islam. She will also discuss the role of women in Islam, and the
Muslim experience in the United States.
Homayra Ziad is the Muslim Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and formerly Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity College in Hartford. After receiving her first degree from Bryn Mawr, she earned a doctorate in Islamic Studies from Yale. Dr. Ziad is deeply involved in interreligious education, as well as interfaith initiatives and educational outreach on Islam. She is recently co-founder and co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group, and an editor for Palgrave’s upcoming series Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice. Dr. Ziad finds a home in Scriptural Reasoning and Jewish-Muslim and Abrahamic dialogue. She works regularly on projects of inter-religious learning with Andover Newton Theological School and Hebrew College in Boston, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College of Philadelphia, and the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is a member of the WISE Women’s Shura Council, co-author of a fatwa against domestic violence, and a contributor to the Huffington Post’s HuffJummah. She is working on two books, the first on the intersections of spirituality and literary aesthetics in the work of the eighteenth-century Sufi theologian and poet of Delhi Khwajah Mir Dard, and the second a popular work on Islam and humor. Dr. Ziad is inspired in her work by spiritual and pluralist traditions within Islam.
Metropolitan UMW Newsletter : April 2015 Page 12 of 12
Circles
Resurrection Mural by Ron DiCianni
The Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, Texas
Circles
2 On April 8th Circle 2 will be visiting the National Museum of Women in the Arts for the
“Picturing Mary” exhibit. All are invited. Contact Jane Cunningham, [email protected],