When: 03/24/2009 - 5:00 PM  03/24/2009 - 6:00 PM
Where: Metropolitan United Methodist Church
8000 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

When: 05/02/2009 - 2:49 PM  05/02/2009 - 2:49 PM
Where: Metropolitan UMC
8000 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

When: 05/17/2009 - 2:00 PM  05/17/2009 - 4:00 PM
Where: Metropolitan UMC
8000 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

When: 10/28/2011 - 7:00 PM  10/28/2011 - 8:30 PM
Where: Metropolitan UMC
8000 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

Monster Concert 
Silent Film: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) accompanied on the Rice Memorial Organ - Andrew R. Galuska, organist
Friday, October 28th 2011 - 7:00 pm
Admission/Tickets - $10.00

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel and is directed by Rupert Julian. The film features Lon Chaney in the title role as the Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is famous for Lon Chaney's intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. Join us for this Spooktacular event!!!

When: 12/02/2011 - 6:00 PM  12/02/2011 - 8:00 PM
Where: Metropolitan United Methodist Church
8000 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

Metropolitan United Methodist Church is extending an invitation to the community for a special Christmas event called The Journey to Bethlehem, a hands-on Holy Land experience for the whole family. Come and experience a similar marketplace at the time of the first Christmas over two thousand years ago. Join us for some tasty Jewish foods, crafts, the true Christmas message, a pottery demonstration, singing, and gifts. There is something for all ages and we encourage families to participate together. All are welcome.

When: 12/08/2011 - 11:45 AM  12/08/2011 - 1:00 PM
Where: Metropolitan United Methodist Church
8000 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

Hear the spoken word in poetry and organ literature lifting up the many moods of Advent. This is a wonderful way to spend your lunch break to prepare for the Christmas season. Please join us for lunch and this unique holiday experience.

Dec 1st – Andrew Galuska - Metropolitan United Methodist Church - Detroit
Dec. 8th – Gavin Craig - St. Michael's Episcopal Church - Grosse Pointe Woods
Dec. 15th – Joseph Daniel - St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church - Detroit

When: 12/15/2011 - 11:45 AM  12/15/2011 - 1:00 PM
Where: Metropolitan United Methodist Church
8000 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan  48202, United States

Hear the spoken word in poetry and organ literature lifting up the many moods of Advent. This is a wonderful way to spend your lunch break to prepare for the Christmas season. Please join us for lunch and this unique holiday experience.

Dec 1st – Andrew Galuska - Metropolitan United Methodist Church - Detroit
Dec. 8th – Gavin Craig - St. Michael's Episcopal Church - Grosse Pointe Woods
Dec. 15th – Joseph Daniel - St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church - Detroit

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Mary Grimes, a long time member of Metropolitan UMC, was featured on a news segment named "The Heart of Detroit" this past week for her dedicated service to Amelia Earhart School. She has served as a librarian at the school for decades. You can view the news story and video segment here. (The video is under 2 minutes long.) The Heart of Detroit shares inspiring stories of metro Detroiters.

We are currently looking for a Minister of Music to join our ministry team. You can find more information about the position at http://metroumc.org/employment.

Centennial Scholarship applications have been added to our website. You can find the applications at http://metroumc.org/scholarships.

Do you know a student who could use a scholarship for higher education? High school seniors and high school graduates are encouraged to apply for the Centennial Scholarship. Applicants must be individuals who will attend a university during the 2012-2013 school year and who are active in their local United Methodist Church. The scholarship is open to all students throughout the world.

Read the monthly newsletter of Metropolitan United Methodist Church of Detroit. You can find it at metroumc.org/newsletter.

Welcome to February, the month we celebrate Valentine’s Day and the beginning of Lent. Both of these events symbolize love that demonstrates friendship, sacrifice, commitment, serving, and covenant. Valentine’s Day represents the phileō love, which means to be a friend or to have the same interests as another. Lent demonstrates agapaō (agape) love that is unselfish and sacrificial, the love that took Jesus to the cross. As God’s children, expressing love is the character of Christ and the representation of his love filling us! This is our prayer for February that God’s phileō love and agapaō (agape) love will overflow from us to each other, to our church, and to our community. Amen, let it be so!

Read more at http://metroumc.org/CJsCommunique-February2012.

As we approach the season of Lent, those weeks set aside for the church to prepare for Easter, many of us will find ourselves so busy that we may neglect time for “spiritual self-care.” As your pastor, and as a fellow sojourner in this event called “life,” I too can find myself not taking the time to remain “grounded” in the Word of God. All of us can fall into the trap of being so busy that our time for reading, prayer, study, and even healthy exercise are pushed to the side. But as I stated at the beginning of this article, Lent is a time for the church (you & I) to prepare for Easter. It’s a time to prepare for the celebration of the resurrection of our Savior!

In an attempt to help in that time of preparing, I am inviting you to be a part of a Sermon Series that I will be preaching entitled: “The Finish Line Is in Sight!” (based on Adam Hamilton’s book: 24 Hours that Changed the World). As a complement to the sermon series, Rev. Cathee Miles will be offering a class to discuss the points brought out in the sermon(s). I am hopeful that this will be a part of your Lenten journey and a time of God “speaking” to you in a fresh, new way.

Read more at http://metroumc.org/pastors-ponderings-02-2012.

As I write this, the Holiday (or rather HOLYday) season is fast coming to an end. Currently, the stores and malls are overrun by people looking for that “last minute, perfect gift” for a loved one. Many will have shopping lists stuffed in their pockets or their purses in an attempt to help in their pursuit. Others will be “winging it” – wandering about hoping to stumble upon “just the right gift at the right price.” Most of us would expect the ones with the well thought out lists and ideas to be more successful in their shopping endeavors then the ones who “wing it.”

So I ask, can this same logic apply to your faith walk as well as the journey of faith that Metropolitan UMC is on as we enter into this new year? In the book of Proverbs, we find many helpful passages about planning – one of which I have quoted above. Let’s look at this for a moment and see if there may be some benefit in this for our faith journey. In this passage, we find that plans created in isolation tend to be less effective. That is why wise planning encourages participation and input from a variety of people. Involving the participation and input of others, however, takes time. In the rush to get something done, mistakes can be made, advice not heard, and other options overlooked. (Think of the person rushing through a busy mall frantically looking for a gift with no idea of what that gift might be.)

The January 2012 Messenger is now online. Check out our church's newsletter at http://www.metroumc.org/January2012Messenger.

Check out our newsletter, highlighting events and happenings at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Detroit for December 2011.

Read the December newsletter here.

Dear friends and families of Metro Detroit,

Metropolitan United Methodist Church is extending an invitation to the community for a special Christmas event called The Journey to Bethlehem, a hands-on Holy Land experience for the whole family. Come and experience a similar marketplace at the time of the first Christmas over two thousand years ago. Join us for some tasty Jewish foods, crafts, the true Christmas message, a pottery demonstration, singing, and gifts. There is something for all ages and we encourage families to participate together.

Mark your calendars now and plan to attend:

When: Friday, December 2, 2011
Time: 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Free Dinner at 6:00 PM

Where:
Metropolitan United Methodist Church
8000 Woodward, corner of Chandler and Woodward
Phone: 313-875-7407
Website: www.metroumc.org/J2B

Read Metropolitan UMC's monthly newsletter. The newsletter highlights upcoming events and information regrading the Church. You can read the November issue at here. More newsletters can be found at metroumc.org/newsletter.

Over the past year or so, I have found myself longing, even thirsting to re-visit some of the places of my past. As I had shared with many of you, my childhood began right here in Detroit just a few miles from Metropolitan UMC. What you may not be aware of is that during the summer that I turned 10 years old, my family moved to Canada where we lived for approximately four years. As part of this “re-visiting of my past,” I recently felt led to visit that part of Canada where my family had once lived.

As I visited that place, I was reminded of many things – one in particular was a small gas station / general store / bakery where as a young boy of 11 or 12 I could go on my bicycle and treat myself to a homemade “Butter Tart” for only 35 cents! So, I took the time to seek out the place and upon finding it discovered that the old woman that made the tarts had long gone to her heavenly reward and now in place of her homemade butter tarts, one could purchase a pre-packaged one (five times the price and really not as good as I remembered). But a tart was purchased and consumed, if for no other reason then for “old time’s sake.”

Read more here.

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Version Bible. For many centuries the common people were not allowed to read scripture. Through scholarly translation while hiding behind secret doors, much of the Bible was translated into everyday language of the people. Several of these translators were burned at the stake or declared heretics for their knowledge and translation of scripture. In the 17th century King James had the Bible translated into English and was available for all to read and soon became the “book for all people for all ages!”

Read more here.