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2010

• July 2010 (Welcome letter from Rev. Laura Hamm Peterson; Potluck celebration; Parsonage Work Day; Email a Work-tripper; Worship Schedule; Special Events; Volunteer Opportunities; School Supply Drive; Serving This Month)

• June 2010 (Goodbye letter from Rev. Corey Sharpe, Youth Work Trip to Savannah, GA in July; letter from Nicaragua; Worship Schedule; Introducing Spiritual Disciplines, Part 3; Family Camping Trip update; Vacation Bible Camp; KidServe Camp; Graduates; Older Adults Bus Trip; M Street Brass Concert; Special Events; Volunteer Opportunities; Serving This Month)

• May 2010 (The Great Fifty Days from Easter to Pentecost article by Rev. Woodrow; appointment of a new Associate Pastor, Rev. Laura Hamm Peterson; Missions Auction update; Table of Sharing; Worship Schedule; Peace With Justice Sunday; Senior Banquet; Card Ministry; Courtyard Caring; Introducing Spiritual Disciplines, Part 2;  Movie Night; Youth Talent Show & Fundraiser; Music Ministries dinner; M Street Brass Concert; Volunteer Opportunities; Vacation Bible Camp; Middle School Camp; Serving This Month)

• April 2010 (Special music for Holy Week; Bob Kimball's retirement; Introducing Spiritual Disciplines, Part 1 article; SPRC Letter - reappointment of Rev. Corey Sharpe; Habitat for Humanity Work Day; Worship Schedule; Piano Concert; Serving This Month)

• March 2010 (Lent: Church's Springtime article by Rev. Kathryn Woodrow; Missions Dinner & Auction; One Great Hour of Sharing special offering; Youth Fasting Event; Freedom in Fasting article by Rev. Corey Sharpe; Worship Schedule; Holy Week Schedule; Christian Education Update (summer camp, online course); Serving This Month)

• February 2010 (Haiti Earthquake Response; Worship Schedule; Pancake Supper; UMW Layette Collection; Red Cross Blood Drive; Interfaith Dialogue on the Meaning of Sin; Piano Dedication; Thanksgiving in February; Older Adults Bus Trip; Family Camping; Devotionals; Special Events; Serving This Month)

• January 2010 (Human Relations Day Special Offering; Snow Closing Policy; Worship Schedule; What is the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle?; Christian Education for Winter/Early Spring; Church-wide Lenten Study, 24 Hours That Changed the World; Special Events; Serving this Month)

2009

• December 2009 (From Advent to Christmas: Come Lord Jesus / Article from Rev. Woodrow; Worship Schedule; Christmas Eve Services; Special Music - Organ Concert, Kaleidoscope Music Concert; Book Review by Rev. Corey Sharpe on I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers by Thomas Hine; Youth Christmas Project for CMR; Special Events; Year-End Stock Donations; Card Ministry; Stewardship Update; Pumpkin Patch results; Advent Workshop & Family Ministry Event; Jingle Bus; Serving This Month)

• November 2009 (From Membership to Discipleship / Article from Rev. Woodrow; Worship Schedule; Commitment Sunday & Potluck Brunch; Interfaith Thanksgiving Service; United Methodist Student Sunday special offering; Nicaragua Missions Trip dinner; Annual Charge Conference; Christmas Season Events Preview; Special Events; Online Education on Connectional Giving; Hospice Care Training; Discipleship Academy; Serving This Month)

• October 2009 (Book Review by Rev. Corey Sharpe on The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World by Alan Roxburgh & Fred Romanuk; Stewardship Note from Rev. Ken Jones; World Communion Sunday Special Offering; Visit from Missionary to Liberia, Suzanne Porter; Pumpkin Patch; Fall Fest; Worship Schedule; Writing Group; Christian Education studies starting in October; Special Events; Health Kits Collection; Photos from the Church Picnic; New Feature - Serving This Month)

• September 2009 (Church Picnic; 3rd Grade Bible Sunday; Inquirer's Class; Financial Update; Fall 2009 Christian Education; Worship Schedule; Health Kits Collection; Calendars Needed)

• August 2009 (Fall Children & Youth Choirs; Introduce new Children's Choir Director, Christopher Guerra; Heads up for Fall Adult Education; Sunday School Recruiting; Special Events; Summer Worship; Finance Report)

• July 2009 (Summer Worship; Report on Summer Mission Projects-Food, School Supplies; Middle School Camp update; KidServe Camp update; Special Events; Notes from Lenten Study on Passionate Worship)

• June 2009 (Why Do We Pass the Peace; Summer Schedule; Advocate for the Hungry/Bread for the World; Notes from Lenten Study on Radical Hospitality; Article on the DC Trolley Tour; Special Events)

• May 2009 (Focus on Hunger Initiative; Article on the Men's Prayer Breakfast; Article on the Easter Service & Music; Book Review by Rev. Corey Sharpe on The (Magic) Kingdom of God by Michael Budde; Worship Schedule; Thank You Mary Nieter; Special Events)

• April 2009 (Holy Week; Article on Easter Memories; Summer Camps; Faith in Mission to World; Article on the Men's Prayer Breakfast; Welcome New Members)

• March 2009 (The Lenten Study, The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations by Bishop Robert Schnase; One Great Hour of Sharing; Youth Choir Update; Youth Work Trip Update; SPRC Update; Mission Auction & Dinner; Worship Schedule; Special Events)

• February 2009 (Faith Birthday Celebration; From the Director of Music; Church Council Update / Focus in 2009; The Lenten Study; 30 Hour Famine)

• January 2009 (Introduce new Music Director, Michael Wu; Faith Celebrates 45 Years; Mission Trip to Nicaragua in August; The Five Practices)