Vacation Bible School 2019

Join us for VBS 2019. This year we will be experience the Word of God through the Whooosh VBS curriculum. Whooosh VBS is an exciting journey where everyone will experience God’s power, presence, and steadfast love!

This program celebrates how throughout the Bible, monuments are built to remember what God has done in the lives of God’s people, from angels that go up and down a ladder-WHOOOSH–to a river whose water stands up–WHOOOSH–to let God’s people cross over on dry land! Guided by six Church Kids, who by faith, take flight–WHOOOSH-on Holy Spirit-powered bicycles, participants will move across country, starting with the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to experience God’s power, presence, and steadfast love, through pick-up games, spontaneous shows and interactive art, music and craft activities.

Theme Verse: By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out without knowing where he was going. (Hebrews 11:8, CEB)

Whooosh VBS will also inform children and adults about the following locations:

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, D.C.)
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH)
American Jazz Museum (Kansas City, MO)
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Kansas City, MO)
Black Wall Street (Tulsa, OK)
Colonel Allensworth State Historical Park (Near Bakersfield, CA)

Whooosh VBS is published by Abingdon Press VBS, an intergenerational VBS that utilizes African American culture, history, music, and art to teach Biblical truths.

DATE & TIME: June 24-28 | Each night from 5:15 pm-9:00 pm,

For more information, please contact Erica Walker at (202)578-3262 or email ChristUMCDC@gmail.com.

TO REGISTER for FREE: http://bit.ly/cumc-vbs2019

CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRESENTS

THE STRING QUEENS

“From Sacred to Swing”

A FEATURE OF THE MILDRED TWITTY JAZZ VESPERS CONCERT SERIES

SUNDAY 4TH OF NOVEMBER 2018 AT 5PM

Praised for its “authentic, soulful, and orchestral sound”, The String Queens is a dynamic trio that creates stimulating musical experiences that inspire diverse audiences to love, hope, feel, and imagine!

With an array of repertoire spanning from the Baroque era to the Jazz Age to today’s Billboard Hot 100 Chart, The String Queens perform versatile programs that transport audiences through time and a multitude of musical genres.

Based in Washington, D.C., TSQ members have been featured in famed performance venues across four continents including Carnegie Hall (New York, NY), The Howard Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Royal Festival Hall (London, England, UK), Radio City Music Hall (New York, NY), Shanghai Grand Theatre (Shanghai, China), The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore, MD), The Moscow Conservatory (Moscow, Russia), Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.), The Birchmere (Alexandria, VA), and The Music Center at Strathmore (Bethesda, MD), to name a few. TSQ members have also shared stages with award-winning artists including Ledisi, Solange, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monae, Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Common, Aretha Franklin, Fantasia, Mos Def, Whitney Houston, Richard Smallwood, Jussie Smollett, Andra Day, Donnie McClurkin, Larry Graham, Donald Lawrence, Kurt Carr, Lalah Hathaway, Wynton Marsalis, and Ruben Studdard, among others. As chamber and orchestral musicians, TSQ members have performed under the batons of legendary musical directors Ray Chew, Michael Bearden, Alan Gilbert, James Conlon, Rickey Minor, Adam Blackstone, Darin Atwater, James DePriest, Michael Tilson Thomas, and many more. With extensive experience collaborating with some of the greatest musicians of our time across a variety of musical genres, TSQ members have collectively developed a memorable and unique sound rooted in the highest level of artistry ready to be delivered to awaiting audiences.

Concert Information: www.christchurchinthecity.org/the-string-queens
Artist Information: www.thestringqueens.com
Venue Information: www.christchurchinthecity.org