The 8:30 and 11:00 services will be combined on Sunday, November 30th at 10:00am. Our worship will be in the style of the Taizé community with beautiful, repeated musical phrases, prayer, contemplation and silence. Following the service we will have a time of fellowship in the social hall. Use your Thanksgiving leftovers to create the perfect potluck dish! Lunch will be served immediately following worship. You may leave your dish in the kitchen during the service. Join us!

Over the weekend the youth of CUMC participated in one of the most significant youth conferences to come into the DMV metropolitan area Dare 2 Share ministries. Over 4000 youth attended this conference; they came from as far as Maine and South Carolina. CUMC had 7 of its Middle and High school students to attend this radical conference. Dare 2 share‘s Invincible Conference tour is designed to help teens grow in that kind of deep, immovable faith and to equip them to share their faith with their friends who don’t know Jesus Christ. The conference is specifically designed to help teens know, live, share, and own their faith. This year the students learned to put on the armor of God from Ephesians 6: 10-20. The Clarendon youth displayed a strong desire to learn to share their faith among friends; one of Clarendon’s UMC students who attended the conference gave her life to the Lord Jesus Christ she decided to put her trust in the Lord. Amen

This Sunday, October 5th, we will celebrate Children’s Sabbath. This is a yearly opportunity to focus on children during our worship time. Maudeva Hansford will be our guest speaker and the Children & Cherub Choirs will sing together at both the 8:30 and 11:00 services. Join us as we celebrate and focus on the youngest members of our church!

Photos from the Youth Mission trip to New Orleans.

First - our adult handbell choir, the Chancel Ringers, is looking for a couple of new ringers to join our crew. You need not have any handbell experience but you MUST read music. We begin rehearsals on Sunday, September 14th at 6:15pm and we meet weekly at that time. Rehearsals last until 7:30pm.

Second - our adult contemporary ensemble, the Celebration Singers, have been meeting all summer and are gearing up for the fall. We are a very low-commitment, relaxed group that meets every other Thursday night from 6:30-7:30pm in the choir room. We sing about once a month at the 8:30 worship service. We’ll also be putting together a dinner theater this Christmas season on Saturday night, December 13th. You don’t want to miss it!!

These groups and the rest of our music ensembles at CUMC are places where worship and spiritual growth team up with fellowship and FUN! You are so very welcome to come and be a part of the programs that God is richly blessing in this Christian community.

Join us for a special worship service on Sunday, August 31, 2008, at 10 AM. We will be combining both 8:30am and 11am services into one as we all gather together to celebrate our faith. Picnic lunch to follow.

Recently Clarendon Compass members Silvia Wang, Amanda Lee and Kim Southard went on a mission trip to Brazil. Amanda and Silvia shared their stories about the trip this past weekend at church. Amanda has also shared her photos of the journey, which can be found here.

Here are just a few of the photos.

We will have bible study this Tuesday night from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm at the Corner Bakery at Courthouse (Veitch and Wilson Blvd.).  Please come join us for a discussion of Colossians ch. 1.  This book is in the New Testament.  Paul wrote this letter to the church in Colosse in Asia Minor at approximately 60 A.D., during Paul’s imprisonment in Rome.

Hope to see you at bible study.

Join us for a special worship service on June 29th, 2008, at 10 AM. We will be combining both 8:30am and 11am services into one as we all gather together to celebrate our faith. Picnic lunch to follow on the lawn.

Sunday, June 8th @ 4pm
Join Dr. J. Reilly Lewis, Dominion Brass, The Potomac Tuba Quartet and professional vocalists as we raise awareness of the great need that still exists in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A free-will offering will be taken and all proceeds will benefit the Methodist Youth Fellowship Mission Trip to New Orleans in July and the reconstruction efforts there. A RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW in the Social Hall. What a unique opportunity to hear so many fabulous musicians in one place and support a great cause!!

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