News and Announcements

Join us for a meet and mingle as we welcome Rev. Jonathan V. Newton to the National Cathedral of African Methodism. Food will be served, so please RSVP to let us know you are coming!

Saturday, September 10 · 11:30am – 1:00pm
Location: Douglass Hall

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Join Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church,  the National Cathedral of African Methodism

As we celebrate “The Dream and The Dreamer” on Sunday, August 28, 2011

Sunday Worship 8:00A.M.—9:30 A.M.
Reverend Dr. Grainger Browning-Preacher
Bishop Adam J. Richardson– Episcopal Remarks

Free Parking:
NEA Garage
1201 16th Street, NW

PMI Garage
1615 M Street, NW

LAZ Garage
1125 15th Street, NW

Free Shuttle Buses from Metropolitan to closet drop off point to MLK Memorial

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2011 Washington Annual Conference, April 26-30, 2011, Ebenezer AME Church, Ft. Washington, MD
Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson, Presiding Prelate
Mrs. Connie S. Richardson, Episcopal Supervisor

Contacts:

The Rev. Jonathan L. Weaver
2011 Washington Annual Conference (AME Church), Public Relations Chairperson
jonathanwea@gmail.com
301-249-7545

Sister Patricia Matthews
2011 Washington Annual Conference (AME Church), Public Relations Coordinator
padima@msn.com
301-568-9127 

The 61st Session of the Washington Annual Conference of the 2nd Episcopal District
Tuesday April 26 – Saturday, April 30, 2011

 The Washington Annual Conference, of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church hosts its 61st Session under the dynamic leadership of the Presiding Prelate for the Second Episcopal District, The Right Reverend Adam J. Richardson, Jr. and the Episcopal Supervisor for the WMS, YPD, and Clergy Families Organization of the Second Episcopal District, Dr. Connie Speights Richardson. The 61st Session is scheduled for Tuesday, April 26 – Saturday, April 30, 2011, at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7707 Allentown Road, Fort Washington, Maryland 20744, where the Reverend Drs. Grainger and JoAnn Browning are the Pastors. This year’s theme: The Call to Vigilance: Continuing a Prophetic Ministry Focus: AIR (Attention, Intention, Retention) A Ministry of and for Young Adults.

The Reverend Dr. Louis-Charles Harvey (Potomac District) is the Host Presiding Elder and the Reverend Dr. Goodwin Douglas (Capital District) is the Associate Presiding Elder. The Conference Coordinator is the Reverend Dr. Ronald E. Braxton, Pastor of Metropolitan AME Church, in Washington, DC.

Join us as we come together to worship, educate, fellowship and celebrate the 61st Session of the Washington Annual Conference. For more information, please log-on to:

http://washingtonannualconference.org/.

The 61st Session of the Washington Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ‘Conference-At-A-Glance’

Monday, April 25, 2011
Women’s Missionary Society (WMS) Convention
Martin’s Crosswinds, Greenbelt, Maryland
 
8:30 a.m. WMS Opening Session
12:00 p.m. Annual Luncheon, Martin’s Crosswinds, Greenbelt, MD
2:00 p.m. Business and Institutes
7:00 p.m.  Missionary Witness and Night in White

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Women in Ministry
8:30 a.m. Women in Ministry Prayer Breakfast
Women in Ministry Meeting and Elections

Pre‐conference Episcopal Meetings
1:00 p.m. Presiding Elders and Conference Finance Committees
2:30 p.m.  Board of Examiners meets with Bishop
3:30 p.m. Bishop in private consultation with pastors and preachers by appointment
5:00 p.m. DINNER

7:00 p.m. Opening Worship Service (Black Vestments) – The Rev. Samuel E. Hayward, III, Keynote Preacher, Hemingway Memorial AME Church
9:30 p.m. Organization of Annual Conference
Roll Call, Transfers
Lay Delegates Seated/Credentials

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
8:30 a.m. Devotion and Meditation
9:00 Conference Institute
10:00 Conference Business

Organization of Annual Conference Continued:
Election of Conference Functionaries
Conference Bounds
Committee Assignments Completed
Presiding Elders’ Summary Reports
Board of Examiners’ Report
Pastors’ Reports

12:00 p.m. Ecumenical Service – The Rev. Jasper Williams, New Salem Baptist Church, Keynote Preacher
1:30 p.m. LUNCH
2:45 p.m. Conference Business
Election of General Conference Delegates
5:30 p.m. DINNER
7:00 p.m. Men’s Night (The Emmaus Walk) and Sons of Allen Report – The Rev. Alan Gould, Sr., Keynote Preacher, Allen Chapel AME Church-Silver Spring

Thursday, April 28, 2011
6:00 a.m. Early Morning Prayer Call
8:30 a.m. Devotion and Meditation
9:00 a.m. Conference Institute
10:00 a.m. Conference Business
Reading of Minutes
Pastors’ Reports
Ministerial Efficiency
Request(s) for Superannuation
12:00 noon Midday Refreshing
1:30 p.m. LUNCH
3:00 p.m. Devotion

Conference Business
Administrative Committee Reports
Conference Adjustments
Conference Trustees
Properties and Deeds
Abandoned Property
Abandoned Property
Missions, Circuits and Stations
Church Growth and Development
Ministries to Youths
Annuity Investments and Insurance
Legislative Task Force
Christian Education
Church School
5:00 p.m. DINNER
7:00 p.m. Lay Witness Night and Lay President’s Report – Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, Keynote Speaker

Friday, April 29, 2011
8:30 a.m. Devotions and Meditation
9:00 a.m. Conference Business
Reading of the Minutes
Literary Reports
State of the Country
State of the Church
Social, Civic and Political Action
Ecology, Temperance and Health
Economic Development
Evangelism
Ministry beyond the Walls
Christian Stewardship
The Church and Technology

10:30 a.m. Memorial Service and Memoirs and Necrology Report
11:00 a.m. Service of Ordination and Holy Communion (White Vestments) – Bishop McKinley Young, Keynote Preacher, Presiding Prelate of the 11th Episcopal District
1:30 p.m. LUNCH
3:00 p.m. Conference Business

Devotion
Component Reports
Women’s Missionary Society
Debutantes and Masters Commission
Women in Ministry
RED, Inc. and Kittrell Development Initiative
Administrative Reports
Treasurer, Finance Committee, and all Financial Reports
Unfinished Business
Disciplinary Questions

5:00 p.m. DINNER
7:00 p.m. Youth Revival and YPD President’s Report – The Rev. Kenya Smith, Keynote Preacher, Ebenezer AME Church

Saturday, April 30, 2011
9:00 a.m. Church School
10:30 a.m. Closing Worship Service (Black Vestments) – Bishop Adam J. Richardson, Jr., Presiding Plate of the 2nd Episcopal District

Conference Business
Report of the Statistician
Resolutions
Commissioning Service
Presentation of Certificates
Reading of Appointments
Benediction

Sunday, April 10, 2011 is Lay Organizations Annual Day. Michael Blake, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement & Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs will be the speaker.

Mr. Blake worked on the Obama for America campaign, first as Deputy Political Director and Constituency Outreach Director in Iowa and as Deputy Director and Political Director in Michigan. Prior to that, Mr. Blake was the Director of External Affairs for the Michigan House of Representatives serving in Michigan Speaker of the House Andy Dillon’s cabinet. Before that appointment, he successfully co-organized three state house campaigns in the 2006 election cycle. Mr. Blake is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism from Northwestern University. He is also an alumnus of the Yes We Can political training program in Washington, D.C. He started his political career as an assistant for Illinois State Senator Jeff Schoenberg.

In his own words:“I say that I’m a skinny kid from The Bronx, whose family went from no house in Jamaica to The White House in D.C, who was told that I wasn’t smart enough to get into Northwestern, came from an elementary school was referred to having ‘savage inequalities’ and was told that I was silly for moving to Iowa to try and get President Obama elected.” “Fortunately, those who inspired me reminded me that no person can stop what God has in store.”

Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
1518 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Braxton, Senior Pastor

Free Parking in the NEA garage directly across the street from the church.

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Churches are encouraged to plan activities to include, but not be limited to: Season of Fasting – Early Morning, Mid-Day, and/or Evening Prayer Calls – Prayer Vigils – Prayer Walks – One Day Prayer Retreats; and much more!

The Connectional Day of Prayer is endorsed by the Council of Bishops and the 48th Quadrennial General Conference Comm 2008.

The 61st  Session of the Washington Annual Conference meets Tuesday April 25 – Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Ebenezer AME Church, Fort Washington, Maryland

PRESS RELEASE

The 61st  Session of the Washington Annual Conference
Tuesday, April 25 –  Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Washington Annual Conference hosts its 61st  Session under the dynamic leadership of the Presiding Prelate for the Second Episcopal District, the Right Reverend Adam J. Richardson, Jr. and the Episcopal Supervisor for the WMS, YPD, and Clergy Families Organization of the Second Episcopal District, Dr. Connie Speights Richardson.

The 61st  Session is scheduled for Tuesday, April 25 – Saturday, April 30, 2011, at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7707 Allentown Road, Fort Washington, Maryland 20744, where the Reverend Dr. Grainger Browning and the Rev. Dr. JoAnn Browning are the pastors.

This year’s theme: The Call to Vigilance: Continuing a Prophetic Ministry Focus: AIR (Attention, Intention, Retention) A Ministry of and for Young Adults

The Reverend Dr. Louis-Charles Harvey (Potomac District) is the host presiding elder and the Reverend Dr. Goodwin Douglas (Capital District) is the associate presiding elder. The Conference Coordinator is the Reverend Dr. Ronald E. Braxton, pastor of Metropolitan AME Church, in Washington, DC.

Join us as we come together to worship, educate, fellowship and celebrate the 61st  Session of the Washington Annual Conference.

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A Very Special Celebration: Organizations’ Day and  Women’s History Month

Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
1518 M Street, NW
Washington, DC  20001
9:00 AM
March 20, 2011

You’re invited to worship with the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church as the Presidents’ Council, on its 60th Annual Organizations’ Day, will commemorate the church’s many ministries, clubs, and organizations for the services and outreach provided to our church and the community.

Additionally, Women’s History Month will be acknowledged.  Members of the newly chartered section of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), designated as Women of Defense, will be our special guests. This unique section, NCNW’s first and only military section is comprised of distinguished active, retired, and civilian Black women in all branches of our armed forces.  Brigadier General Belinda Pinckney (U.S. Army, Retired) will deliver comments during the church service.

You can help increase the visibility of the church’s ministries, clubs, organizations, and its community service in several ways:

• Attend this special service.
• Send this message to friends and colleagues.
• Urge family and friends who are military retirees, active military, and in ROTC programs to attend service on March 20th.
• Share the history and unique roles of women in the A.M.E. Church and Black women in the U.S. Armed Forces.

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Ash Wednesday services will be held on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at noon and 7:00 pm. Rev. Marie Braxton will preach the evening service.

On Saturday, May 21, 2011, 12:00 noon, at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church we will honor the Rev. Johanna Newberry Green at an Appreciation Luncheon.

Rev. Johanna Newberry Green, a native Washingtonian, has over 35 active years in ministry. She has been a Sunday School teacher and the vice president and director of promotion & education for the Sarah Allen Missionary Society here at Metropolitan. Rev. Green is well known for her service with the YPD. She was the YPD Director here at Metropolitan, then YPD Director for the conference, and later on the Episcopal and Connectional levels of the AME church. Additionally, Rev. Green served 15 years on the Board of Trustees for Metropolitan.

Rev. Green retired from the Federal Government where she held progressively responsible senior level management positions in personnel, status of women’s affairs & EEO. Upon retiring, she decided to continue her education by obtaining a BA in sociology and an MA in religious studies from Howard University. She started Green Pastures Ministry, concentrating on spiritual retreats. Rev. Green worked for 6 years as the Protestant Chaplain at Georgetown University in Washington DC and received numerous awards and certificates for her ministerial work, including a certificate from Shalem Institute in Bethesda, MD.

God has blessed Rev. Green with 59 years of marriage to David Green. They have two daughters, Francine & Jackie; 6 grandchildren; and 2 great grandchildren. Rev. Green’s greatest joy is the time that she spends with her loving family. One of the family traditions is enjoying the delicious birthday cakes that Rev. Green bakes for each individual birthday celebration.

We are grateful that GOD has blessed Metropolitan with Rev. Johanna Newberry Green.

Tickets go on sale: March 6, 2011
Price: $25.00
Date: May 21, 2011

Please see Ellen Fizer, Rev. Marie Braxton or Rev. Aisha Karimah

Pastor Braxton, Tavis Smiley and Rev. Marie

Beginning Wednesday February 2, 2011, the exhibit America I Am, the African American Imprint will begin its showing at the National Geographic Museum during Black History Month and continue until May 1, 2011. This exhibit celebrates 500 years of African American contributions to the United States. Tickets are on sale at www.ngmuseum.org or (202) 857-7700.

Take a journey through trials and triumphs while exploring nearly 500 years of African American contributions to the economic, political, cultural, and spiritual development of the United States. Bear witness to more than 200 poignant artifacts from the dungeon doors of the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana to Prince’s guitar.

Created in collaboration with leading scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West, the exhibition is presented by Tavis Smiley, and organized by Cincinnati Museum Center and Arts and Exhibitions International.

Adults – $12; Members/military/seniors (over62)/students – $10; Groups (25+) – $8; Children (ages 2-12) – $6;