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

Church School (Sundays)

Ages 5-14: 9:00-10:15am
Ages 15-Adult: 9:30-10:15am
(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

Adult Christian Education

  Tuesdays

10:30-11:30 am

Currently we are studying the Gospel of Mark; please click here for more information on this and other MSUMC Christian education activities: Christian Education

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Afia Center for Health & Wholeness

  Wednesdays and Thursdays

12:00-4:00 pm

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VOLUNTEER NEEDED FOR THE AFIA CENTER!!! PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
AFIA-Volunteer

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PICA Food Pantry 

Monday - Friday 

9:45-11:15 am

PICA Community Meal

Fridays

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


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The HeadsUp Arts initiative, ArtsReach, is a collaborative arts effort seeking to increase self mastery and stability in the lives of individuals who are at risk. Participants in the workshops are often marginalized adults and families, including persons living on the streets. The acronym HeadsUp means Health, Education, and Arts Developing Skills, Unity and Peace. Created in 2003, HeadsUp, Inc. is connected with the MSUMC, which has been sponsoring programs in the arts for more than twenty years.

Currently, ArtsReach is recruiting volunteer art mentors and art educators. Resumes and proposals for six-week workshops ending in community presentations are requested for: community dance, theatre, meditative painting and photography. If you would like to apply, or to recommend someone, please contact the church staff at 401.331.8900).

For more information on ArtsReach, please click here: Arts-Reach

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

The 2009 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
(5) Legislators Must Address Dangers to Children

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MSUMC's Dearly Departed

During the past few years, 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.