Thank you for your commitment to worship, liberation, and service.
Worship for Lay Annual Day with the Kelly Lay Organization, starts tomorrow at 10 am and is live streamed on Facebook and YouTube.
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; Noonday Study on Wednesday at noon; and Pastor's Study with Rev. Dr. Smith and Dr. Dana at 7pm.
Engage with us this week and next- Register to join the Lorraine Gillian Health Commission Class tomorrow in person and Feb 24 virtually; Sign up to support the Food bank on the 24th; Read more about our vision for the 1518 Residences at Metropolitan; access the course materials for study with Rev. Dr. Smith and Dr. Dana as it continues this Wednesday; Apply and/or share the Spring 2024 Scholarship opportunities; and Save the Date for HBCU Sunday on February 25.
It’s Black History Month, yall!! While we celebrate our lineage and ancestors every day at The Met, let us continue to make our history known to all those around us.
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.
February 25th is HBCU Sunday! Rep your HBCU or Greek Letter Organization’s colors, logo, or mascot and enjoy the sound of the Metropolitan’s very own, The Kollective!
Dearest Metropolitan AME Family and Friends - 2024 will be an exciting year for us for many reasons and April 28th will be an exceptional day for ONE very special reason. Why you ask?
April 28 is National Blueberry Pie Day and National Superhero Day. But that’s not why we will be celebrating.
Keep your eyes peeled for a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT coming soon to your email inbox.
In the meantime, put a big red circle around Sunday April 28 on your calendar. It is a day NOT TO BE MISSED at Metropolitan AME!
We believe that every veteran who has bravely served our country deserves a safe and dignified place to call home.
Metropolitan AME Church (“Metropolitan”) and the Daniel Alexander Payne Community Development Corporation (“Payne CDC”) are excited to announce our preliminary plans to construct a residential tower on the grounds of our historic church, Metropolitan AME Church, at 1518 M Street NW.
This tower will serve as a home for 28 unhoused, at-risk military veterans who are in desperate need of stable housing and support services.
Want to know more about our vision for 1518 Residences at Metropolitan? Read the full special announcement and the press release and project details.
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!
Noonday continues at noon this week. 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.
Pastor's Study continues this week. We are reading This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us Better by Cole Arthur Riley. Rev. Shively TJ Smith and Dr. Dana A. Williams will be our discussion leaders. Join us for 12 weeks of close reading of a book that critics describe as "storytelling that helps us examine our capacity to rest, wonder, and repair." Watch the intro video and review course materials. Register to get access to the study materials here: https://bit.ly/ThisHereFlesh-Study-2024
The Metropolitan A.M.E. Church Scholarship Endowment Payne-Tanner Memorial’s mission of awarding scholarships to students who demonstrate scholastic achievement and financial need continues. The scholarship application are now available from February 15, 2024 - April 15, 2024.
Applications can be downloaded at https://www.metropolitaname.org/post/2024-scholarship-opportunities or can be requested and delivered via email from mamecscholarship@gmail.com.
The deadline for submitting applications and all supporting documents is April 15, 2024.
All materials must be mailed to The Scholarship Committee at P.O. Box 19322, Washington, DC 20036. Applications that are not mailed to the Scholarship Committee’s post office address or are not timely received will not be considered.
Please contact Pamela Moore at plfmoore@yahoo.com with any questions.
Applications for the Ifill and McZier scholarships are now available!
To learn more and obtain the application, please visit https://www.metropolitaname.org/post/2024-scholarship-opportunities. All applications are due to scholarships@metropolitanamec.org by May 1, 2024. Please contact Wade Dugger at wade_e01@yahoo.com with any questions.
If you struggle to maintain a healthy weight or manage diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or heart disease, join the African American Culinary Heritage cooking and nutrition immersion classes on February 18th in person after the service and Saturday February 24th virtually. This immersion will include plant-based cooking demonstrations, food tastings for in-person class, cook-along for virtual class, and great health information. This opportunity is brought to you by a partnership between the Lorraine Gillian MD Health Commission and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
For more information or to register go to https://www.rooteddish.com/mamec.
The Sons and Daughters of Allen will host a READ-IN on Sunday February 25 following worship in Douglass Hall. We invite anyone who wishes to read and recite writing by African Americans, especially young people. Contact Joan W Oxendine at 301-577-6849 if you wish to participate.
The Sarah Allen Missionary Society Food Bank of the Metropolitan AME Church is excited to announce that in-person food bank operations will be held on Saturday, February 24th from 9 am to 3 pm.
Please see the flyer with a 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.
Metropolitan’s Music and Creative Arts Ministry is looking to add your voice to the choir! Please email me, Brittany Chanell Johnson, at Brittany.johnson@metropolitanamec.org for more information. There are options available for all ages.
Find me after church or send me an email. COME, let’s make a joyful sound unto the Lord!
Have something to share with the congregation? Please send ALL announcement information to announcements@metropolitanamec.org. Blurbs should be no longer than 75 words.
The Sons and Daughters of Allen present the 2024 Cultural Arts Festival. This year's theme is Bridging the Generation Gap through Music and the Arts. The festival will take place Saturday March 2, 2024 at 12 noon. The festival with feature the youth of Metropolitan and Howard University.
Tickets are $35 and vendors can exhibit for $50. You may purchase tickets from any member.
Vendors please contact Helen Harvin at 202-240-4468. For more information contact Consentine Morgan Groover at (301)466-7178 or consentinem@gmail.com
...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
"Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute." -Psalm 82:3. As the Bible so instructs it is our call to pursue justice. We are proud to share the first ever Black Lawyers Directory serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. Feel free to use this interactive directory to connect with a lawyer who can provide you and your family with sound legal advice. Download the complimentary copy here.
"If I Touch" by Kathlyn A Wilson is a limited edition lithograph, commissioned by Metropolitan AME Church for 'A Women's Season Celebration in 2004.’ The Original artwork hangs in the Pastor's study, and now you can own your own print! Prints will be available for purchase until April 30th for $175. They can be purchased after service on Sundays from 12:30-1: 30 p.m.
Contact Edith Robinson at or Linda H. Jefferson for more information.
“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.
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