Choir Rehearsal
Sanctuary, 2nd Floor:
9-10 am Sundays
(September through May. Visitors welcome!)

Church School

9:00-10:15am Sundays
Ages 5-Adult (college students welcome!)
September through May

Worship 

Celebration and Eucharist Sanctuary, 2nd Floor

10:15am Sundays

Coffee Time

Fellowship following Worship

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Weekday Activities

PICA Food Pantry 

Monday - Friday 

9:45-11:15 am

Domestic Violence Counseling
(contact through The Providence Center)

Groups meet Tuesdays 5:00-8:00 pm

Afia Center for Health & Wholeness

  Wednesdays and Thursdays

12:00-4:00 pm

PICA Community Meal

Fridays

5:00-6:00 pm
(Volunteers to help with cooking, serving, and cleanup  are always welcome!)


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MSUMC's Dearly Departed

In recent months, Mathewson Street UMC has witnessed the passing of long-time parishioners Betsy Frerichs, Sarah Frerichs, Phyllis Mayo, Helen Mowry, Jean Piper, Walter Piper, and Ridg Shinn.  For more on their lives and deaths, please click here: MSUMC's Dearly Departed.

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An Easy Way to Help our Church and Its Missions: Donate Your Used Ink Cartridges

We can convert your empy ink cartrides into credit for office supplies-- supplies that directly or indirectly support all of our missions. Please bring all empty cartridges — black, colored, large, small — to the church office.  Collect them from coworkers, family, and friends. Office supplies are expensive!  This is a small but important way to extend our budget. Thanks!

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Volunteers in Mission:
  Fifth Annual Trip to the Blueberry Fields of Maine
  August ~  2009
Washington County, Maine

The 2008 DownEast Maine Mission Trip is scheduled for the middle of August.  August is blueberry season, so the team will again be in ministry with migrant workers and will work on a home rehab project through the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program.

Please note that volunteer work for this mission does not mean that you have to travel to Maine.  During July and the first two weeks of August, we will be collecting:

NEW BLANKETS
NEW HAND TOWELS
NEW SOCKS
NEW T-SHIRTS
BABY GOWNS, SLEEPERS, SWEATERS, and DIAPERS
BIBLES (Spanish language!)

It costs $175 to sponsor a MSUMC mission team member.  Please consider making a cash donation.

Please contact the church office for more information: 401.331.8900
or
E-mail Rev. Carole Calhoun (cybergram2@earthlink.net)


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Contemporary Social Issue:
Domestic Violence
(The Parenting Project)

Since 1996, the Parenting Project has helped survivors of domestic violence in their efforts to protect vulnerable children in custody and visitation cases at the Rhode Island Family Court. To confidentially contact the coordinator, Anne Grant, please send an e-mail to:

ParentingProject@cox.net

Anne is an MSUMC parishioner who writes about changes needed in the custody courts. Click on this link for her blog:

http://littlehostages.blogspot.com/

Click on these links for her op-eds from the Providence Journal:

(1) Signs of Hope in RI Family Court,
(2) An Angry Indictment of Family Courts

(3) The Discredited "Parental Alienation" Syndrome

(4) Profiteering in the RI Family Court