Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

We want to change the name of our Charge in 2013 to reflect
our vision, mission and values.  Please submit all suggestions
to the Charge Secretary, gumctakomapark@verizon.net
and/or 301-891-2100 and/or 301-422-2132.

February month Share Food Network.  Please check the
bulletin boards at Grace and Ager Road UM Churches for this
month choices.  For more information, please contact
Brother Prince Deigh, 301-219-3034 at Grace UMC and
Sister Hilda Macauley, 301-434-7874 at Ager Road UMC.


February 2013 Events

No Charge Meeting in February
-
next Charge Meeting will be in March. 

Saturday, February 9th, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.:
(This will be at BWC Mission Center, 11711 East Market Place,
Fulton, Maryland 20759)
            Grace/Ager Road UMC Visioning and Strategic Planning
            Meeting.  Guest Speaker is The Reverend B. Kevin Smalls. 
            All Ministry Leaders are expected to attend.            
Sunday, February 10th:                
 (This will be at Ager Road UMC           
           
Ager Road UM Men will meet immediately following the
            Worship Service.  For more information, please contact
            Brother Donald Hanciles, 202-210-4843.

Sunday, February 10th:                
 (This will be at Grace UMC           
           
Grace UM Women will meet immediately following the
            Worship Service. 

Monday, February 11th, 7:00 p.m.:  
            Small group Class with Sister Andrea Ross will meet at the
            Qdoba Grill, 6450 America Blvd., Hyattsville, MD 20782 -
            it is located across from Five Guys and on the same street
            as Carolina Kitchen and the Movie Theater.  (Please note the
            change of place).  Small group meetings with Andrea will be
            on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m.  For more 
            information, please call Sister Andrea, 301-559-7334.
Tuesday, February 12th, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.:                
(This will be at Ager Road UMC)            
            Pancake Supper. Following the Pancake Supper, we will
            kick-off our Lenten Bible Study Series. Contact
            Sister Carrie Smallwood to purchase a book. The cost is         
            $10.00.
Wednesday, February 13th, 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.:                                
            Please join Pastor Paul for an "Hour of Power." We will
            have a Prayer Teleconference every Wednesday during lent.
            Conference Call# 605.475.5900 - Access Code - 165586
Wednesday, February 13th, 7:30 p.m.:                                

(This will be at Grace UMC)            
             Ash Wednesday Worship Service.
Sunday, February 24th:
(This will be at Grace and Ager Road UMC)
            FRAN Sunday - Please invite your Friends, Relatives  
            And Neighbors to Worship Service. 




Other Events
United Methodist Student Day - Overview | UMC Giving
http://www.umcgiving.org/site/c.qwL6KkNWLrH/b.3833911/
Please go to the Washington Region Blog to get the latest
update for our Annual Conference - http://www.bwcumc.org/washingtonregion/blog

Volunteers needed! If interested in helping with the Grace UMC
Food Pantry, please contact Sister Dahlia Leigh (http://www.blogger.com/http:/mailto:dleighkk@gmail.com)
or Brother Dunrick-Sogie Thomas (http://www.blogger.com/http:/mailto:dunricks@yahoo.co.uk).  
We need help on Fridays to transport and store food and on
Saturdays to distribute food. Currently we only distribute food
once a month on 1st Saturdays but if we have more volunteers
from the Charge we can distribute food twice a month or maybe
every Saturday. 

We want to include a testimonial section in our weekly blog.
Please send Sister Debbie Jones (gumctakomapark@verizon.net)
your testimonies of how Christ, through the church, changed
your life.

Registration for Discipleship Academy is now open and available
at the Conference website at http://www.bwcumc.org/academy/cls/washington.  The
Central Maryland Discipleship Academy will be held on the
weekend of March 9-10, 2013 at Goshen UMC. Registration for
this location ends on March 1, 2013. The Greater Washington
Discipleship Academy will be held on the weekend of
April 13-14, 2013 at Bethesda UMC. Registration for this
location ends on April 1, 2013.   You must register for this event
with your own Gateway account. Be sure to register before the
deadline! We do not allow walk-ins for these events.  Flyers with
more detailed class information can be found on the bulletin
boards.

Please give Sister Debbie Jones (charge secretary) pictures of
the charge in action. We are in the process of updating our
bulletin boards, website and facebook page.

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