Sundays 11 am ET
3133 Dumbarton St. NW
Washington, DC
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If you’ve visited Dumbarton in person or virtually and would like to get more deeply connected, please sign up to get e-Chips, Dumbarton’s weekly e-newsletter. It has links for each Sunday’s Adult Ed and worship service, and information about how to get involved in other activities like book or podcast groups, retreats, marches, meetings, or mission trips. To sign up, click here.
Dumbarton offers its Adult Education program to anyone interested on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. except from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Except in summer (from Memorial Day through Labor Day), Adult Education classes begin each Sunday morning at ten in the church’s Fellowship Hall on the first floor. Worship services are upstairs in the sanctuary every Sunday at 11, generally concluding at noon or a few minutes thereafter. For all Sunday activities at Dumbarton, dress is casual.
Dumbarton UMC provides child care and children’s education classes for parents participating in Adult Education and/or worship services.
If you’ve visited Dumbarton in person or virtually and would like to get more deeply connected, please sign up to get e-Chips, Dumbarton’s weekly e-newsletter. It has links for each Sunday’s Adult Ed and worship service, and information about how to get involved in other activities like book or podcast groups, retreats, marches, meetings, or mission trips. To sign up to e-Chips, click here.
Dumbarton offers one worship service each Sunday. Except for the summer months from Memorial Day through Labor Day, when worship begins at 9:30 a.m., all our services begin at 11, usually winding up at noon or a few minutes after, depending on whether there is communion and on the length of congregation members’ sharings of joys and concerns. Adult Education sessions begin at ten each Sunday morning, again except for the summer months from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Faith is what gives each of us the strength to carry on in the face of grief, doubt, fear, isolation, shame, or unexpected reversal. Dumbarton offers a community that seeks to provide that strength by bringing people together for a deeper understanding of God and scripture to make better sense of their personal experience and the wider world.
Come as you are and be welcomed.
Dumbarton is an inclusive faith community and we have stood for full inclusion of LGBTQ persons since1987.
The church is also a leading advocate for changing national and global United Methodist policies to remove unjust and discriminatory provisions disqualifying openly LGBTQ candidates for the ministry and prohibiting all United Methodist clergy from officiating at same-sex weddings. We believe all people are children of God, and God loves consenting adults no matter whom they love.
Worship. Guest Preacher — The Rev. Dr. Tom Brunkow, Dumbarton United Methodist Church Pastor from 1975-1987. (in person & online)
Following Worship — Potluck in the Social Hall and outside. All are welcome! Drinks and dishware provided. Local Dumbartonians please bring food to share!
Adult Ed (in-person & online), — an informal time to get to know one another, those coming back for the homecoming and folks in the current congregation. Includes ice-breakers and sharing–stories, reminiscences, and thoughts about the next 250 years!
Pop-Up Feeding Our Unhoused Neighbors Saturday, October 27, 8 a.m. – 11 a.m. Join us as we help our neighbors and friends. For more information, please use the contact form to request it.
Adult Education: Sundays at 10 am
Worship: Sundays 11 am–12:30 pm
From Memorial Day through Labor Day:
No Adult Education.
Worship Sundays 9:30 am–11:00 pm
If you plan to attend a Dumbarton activity in person and are not walking, biking, or taking a hired vehicle or public transit, allow a few extra minutes to find a parking spot, even on Sunday mornings. Parking in Georgetown is notoriously scarce, but easier if you come for Adult Ed and Children's Ed, both at 10 a.m.
We welcome visitors to participate in both Adult Education programs and worship services on Sunday mornings either in person or online. Join us for worship in person or on Zoom! If you’re reading this outside our Sunday worship time, click on Watch Now to view a recent sermon or see our sermon archive.
Children are an important part of our faith family and are always welcome in worship. Faith comes alive for children and youth at Dumbarton—not just through Sunday worship, but by also participating in one of our church’s many mission and outreach opportunities.
During the 2023 Advent season, Rev. Rachel started an early Thursday morning online prayer group for those interested in journeying into the season with one another. The weekly event was so popular that a group of dedicated church members decided to continued it on...
Thirteen youth and adults from Dumbarton UMC and Christ Crossman UMC spent a week in El Salvador this past July engaged in an immersive mission trip experience. Ava Murray, one of Dumbarton’s youth members, reflected on the experience: “What I liked about...
During the Sunday, July 16, 2023, Witness to the Word (All About Love), three Dumbarton members shared highlights and reflections from attending the 2023 Annual Conference of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, which was held recently in Baltimore, Md., May 31-June...