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Dumbarton celebrates Reconciling Sunday around Mardi Gras each year to mark the Sunday it voted in 1987 to welcome LGBTQIA+ people, friends, and families to its services. The service will feature Rev. Dr. Leo Yates as guest preacher and a Mardi Gras Celebration potluck brunch after worship. Invite your friends and family! All are welcome!
Dr. Yates, an ordained deacon, is a hospital chaplain and pastoral counselor specializing in deaf ministries, accessibility ministries, and sign language interpreting. He chaired the United Methodist Church’s Baltimore-Washington Conference Commission on Disability Concerns, and currently is Secretary of the UMC Board of Global Ministries’ Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ministries Committee. He also chairs the Baltimore-Washington Conference Order of Deacons.
Join us at 11:00 a.m. in person at 3133 Dumbarton Street NW, or by Zoom just for our simultaneously broadcast worship service, by dialing 301-715-8592 and punching in Meeting ID: 898 3876 7270 and Passcode: 312148.
Dumbarton UMC, also the home of the Dumbarton Concert Series in Georgetown, is an inclusive faith community. The congregation voted to welcome LGBTQIA+ people and their families in March, 1987, and we have been celebrating their gifts and commitment to our community ever since. Dumbarton is also committed to becoming a more anti-racist church. We are biblical Christians, but believe Jesus’s most important commandment is to love all our neighbors – to welcome the hurting, the doubting, the lost, and the intellectually curious, believers and non-believers alike.
You are not alone. In God’s neighborhood, we all can belong. If you think Dumbarton might be a good spiritual home for you, come as you are!
