The
Nehemiah Charge has a new email:
thenehemiahcharge@gmail.com
The
Nehemiah Charge will be campaigning for
“Imagine
No More Malaria”. Please state the mission and amount on
your
envelope for offering and Ushers will provide you
an
envelope if needed. The Nehemiah Charge goal is
$2,000.00
by May 18th.
Link
to the Charge Calendar
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Community Life
AIM
Tuesday, April 15th, 7:30 p.m.:
House Meeting Training
Session #2
Saint Mark
Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road,
Rockville
AIM
Turnout: 5-10 people per
institution.
AIM will be doing trainings on how to conduct
“house meetings”
(aka “listening sessions”) inside of your
institution, so that we
may better understand the issues affecting our
people.
These listening sessions are used to shape the
AIM issue agenda
and are an extremely important organizing
tool. Each AIM
congregation should plan to send 5-10 people to
the training.
(Note: it is the same training offered twice, so
each person only
needs to attend one session). Please RSVP to James
Pearlstein – james.pearlstein@gmail.com
– with the number of people who
plan to attend the sessions.
Thursday,
April 17th, 7:30
p.m.:
Ager Road UMC
Maundy Thursday
Worship Service
Friday,
April 18th, 12:00
noon:
First UMC, 6201 Belcrest Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782
Good Friday Worship
Service. Pastor Paul will be preaching.
Friday,
April 18th, 7:00
p.m.:
Grace UMC
Good Friday Worship Service.
Saturday,
April 19th, 9:00
a.m. – 4:00 p.m.:
Grace UMC
Church-wide Spring Clean Up Day.
Saturday, April 19, 4:00
p.m. – 5:00 p.m.:
Prince George’s Plaza Food Court
Evangelism Ministry Meeting.
Sunday, April 27th – Tuesday, June 10th:
Spring Book Study - A
Disciples Path by James A. Harnish.
The workbook and
companion reader cost $15.00. Please see
Sister Carrie
Smallwood or Sister Audrey Arthur to purchase
the course materials.
The course will be offered after Worship
Service at ARUMC and
before worship service at GUMC and on
Tuesday and evenings
from (7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) at ARUMC.
AIM
Sunday, April 27th, 4:00 p.m., Pembridge
Square Apartments
(2315 Blueridge Ave.,
Wheaton)
Research Actions, Affordable Housing
Reality Tour #1
May Schedule
Saturday, May 3rd, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Memorial Service for
Rebecca Armstrong
This will take place at
Hines-Rinaldi
11800 New Hampshire
Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20904.
Sunday, May 4th,
4:00 p.m., Great Hope Homes (10801 Good Hope Dr.,
Silver
Spring)
Research Actions, Affordable Housing
Reality Tour #2
AIM will be conducting
two Affordable Housing Reality Tour with
our friends at Montgomery Housing
Partnership where will get to
see what high-quality
affordable housing looks like, get to meet
residents at MHP
properties, and learn about the state of affordable housing in Montgomery
County. We can accommodate 25-30 leaders
per tour, so please
email James Pearlstein at
james.pearlstein@gmail.com to
RSVP. Details to follow regarding
parking,etc.
AIM Turnout: 5- people per
institution
Maryland IAF Action
Wednesday, May 14th, 7:30 p.m.
organizations in Maryland—PATH (Howard County), and BUILD (Baltimore).
All of the main gubernatorial candidates will be present, and we will seek the candidates’ commitments related to our state-wide proposals for affordable
housing and jobs.
African Immigrant Caucus Action
Sunday, June 8th, 4:00 p.m.
Reid Temple AME (North Campus)
12011 Tech Road, Silver Spring)
This will be the founding assembly for the newly-formed African
Immigrant Caucus (AIC), which AIM is helping to organize. We
anticipate all major gubernatorial candidates to participate.
AIC is a growing network of African immigrant institutions that
have come together to effect change through the power of their numbers.
Launched in November 2013, the group consists of community, clergy,
and business leaders who believe African immigrants in Diaspora need a
voice in the political system as other ethnic groups have done in the past.
AIM Re-Founding Action
Tuesday, June 17th, 7:30 p.m.
Location TBA
This will be our opportunity to demonstrate what we have
achieved through AIM’s Rebuilding Power Campaign. All major
candidates for the County Executive race have committed to
attend. We will seek the candidates’ commitments related to
affordable housing and other issues that have come out of our
listening sessions.
AIM Turnout: 400-500 people
Wednesday, May 14th, 7:30 p.m.
Saint
Matthew Catholic Church (5401 Loch Raven Blvd,
Baltimore,
MD)
AIM Turnout: 100-200 leaders
This 1,200-person action will be done together with
AIM’s sister organizations in Maryland—PATH (Howard County), and BUILD (Baltimore).
All of the main gubernatorial candidates will be present, and we will seek the candidates’ commitments related to our state-wide proposals for affordable
housing and jobs.
African Immigrant Caucus Action
Sunday, June 8th, 4:00 p.m.
Reid Temple AME (North Campus)
12011 Tech Road, Silver Spring)
This will be the founding assembly for the newly-formed African
Immigrant Caucus (AIC), which AIM is helping to organize. We
anticipate all major gubernatorial candidates to participate.
AIC is a growing network of African immigrant institutions that
have come together to effect change through the power of their numbers.
Launched in November 2013, the group consists of community, clergy,
and business leaders who believe African immigrants in Diaspora need a
voice in the political system as other ethnic groups have done in the past.
AIM Re-Founding Action
Tuesday, June 17th, 7:30 p.m.
Location TBA
This will be our opportunity to demonstrate what we have
achieved through AIM’s Rebuilding Power Campaign. All major
candidates for the County Executive race have committed to
attend. We will seek the candidates’ commitments related to
affordable housing and other issues that have come out of our
listening sessions.
AIM Turnout: 400-500 people
September Schedule
September 6 – October
11:
Fall Neighborhood Engagement Campaign). We
will
gather at GUMC for six consecutive Saturday's
and
assign teams to canvass neighborhoods in
Takoma Park
and Hyattsville from 10 am - Noon as we seek
to get to
know our neighbors better.
October Schedule
October 7 – October
14:
Fall Book Study - Transforming Evangelism: The
Wesleyan
Way of Sharing Faith. The book cost $10.00.
Please see Sister
Carrie Smallwood or Sister Audrey Arthur to
purchase the
course materials. The course will be offered
after Worship
Service at ARUMC & GUMC and on Tuesday
evenings from
(7:00 pm - 8:00 pm) at ARUMC.
Ongoing
It is with a sense of loss that
the SPRC must inform you that our
charge secretary, Sister
Debbie Jones has obtained full-time employment elsewhere and she will be
leaving us soon. While
we are excited and happy
for Sister Debbie she will be missed. Graciously, she has agreed to perform her
essential duties until
we identify, hire and
train a new charge secretary. Please take a
moment and call or e-mail
Sister Debbie and wish her well as she embarks on her new career. The job
description for the new charge secretary is posted on the bulletin board. If
you know of anyone
who is interested please
have them contact Pastor Paul at pwjohnson10@gmail.com.
During Lent, the Gospel of
St. Matthew will be studied. There
are three
choices: Sunday mornings (9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)
at GUMC, Sunday
afternoons (11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.) at
ARUMC and Tuesday
evenings (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.) at
ARUMC.
Every First and Third Thursdays, 9:00 a.m.
– 11:00 a.m.
Ager Road UMC
Please serve an
hour or more with the Food Pantry ministry.
Also, if you are someone you know is need of
food please come
by all are welcome.
Every Third Fridays, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Grace UMC
Prayer Group.
Every First and Third
Saturdays, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Grace UMC
Please serve an hour or more with the Food
Pantry ministry.
Also, if you are someone you know is need of
food please come
by all are welcome.
Every Fourth Sundays, following the Worship
Service
Ager Road UMC
Coffee hour will be hosted by member/s
celebrating their
birthdays during that month.
We are asking for food donation for the pantry which can
be placed on the Altar during the offertory.
Coffee Hour following the
Worship Service
Grace UMC
1st Sunday: UM
Men
2nd Sunday: UM Women
3rd Sunday: Trustee/Usher
4th Sunday: Birthday Month
Celebration/Hospitality Committee
5th Sunday: Youth/Hospitality Committee
AGAPE TRANSITIONAL HOUSE
The goal of the Agape
Transitional House is to
be a temporary home for
up to thirty (30) days for a
single mother with no
more than two (2) children under
the age of eighteen (18)
years old.
The
Agape Transitional House will be housed at
Ager Road United
Methodist Church beside the Altar. It can
be accessed from
the outside from the door across from the
former Pastor’s house.
However, the space in its current
condition is not
habitable. In order, to get it back to livable
condition, it needs a
new full bathroom to replace the current
half bathroom. It also
needs new plumbing, flooring, closets,
cooling and heating wall
system and paint. We have two
estimates from around
two years ago for over $8000 and
$10,000 that have since
expired. One of the options for
renovating the space and
making it habitable is to hire a
contractor to the
repairs. We will need new estimates as the
old estimates are no
longer valid and the contractors no longer
live in the area. Our
second option is to have some or all of the
repairs done by members
of the Nehemiah Charge who are able
to do so.
We are asking members to make a pledge to donate
funds; supplies, service
and time to enable us get the Agape
Transitional House ready
for the end of fall 2014. If you are
interested is assisting
with this very essential project in anyway,
please contact Adin
Osayande, Carrine Cooper or Vicky Amaize.
We welcome any ideas or
suggestions that you may have to ensure
that we successful in
ensuring that Agape Transitional House is
ready on schedule. Thank
you.
Please ensure that
all announcements are emailed to the
Church Office by Friday evenings in order to
be included
in the blog and on Wednesday evenings to be
included in
the Sunday bulletins as printings are
done on Thursdays.
Thank you and God bless.
Debbie.
Blessings, healings or
something special God did for you
lately that you would like to share.
Please send your
testimonies to Debbie Jones,
thenehemiahcharge@gmail.com
to be included in the weekly
blog.
We are in the process of
updating our website, facebook
page and bulletin boards, so please send in all
those pictures
of the Charge in action to Debbie Jones.
Please check this link
for some wonderful pictures: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ni4iuozets2c3q3/QtPIWGAiUu