Welcome to 8th Day Faith Community
An Ecumenical Church

How Do We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land?

The Eighth Day Faith Community meets for worship at 10 AM Sunday mornings in the main room at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington DC.  Click here for details and Covid restrictions. The service will also be available on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5320553902.

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We are a small, diverse ecumenical church with members from different faith backgrounds and ways of expressing our faith. We hold in common the desire to follow Jesus through peacemaking, work for justice (especially economic justice), and environmental sanity. All are welcome, regardless of faith (or lack of it), religious background, age, gender, sexual orientation, wealth (or lack of it), ethnicity, or any other characteristic that ordinarily separates us from one another. We are open and affirming and value the differences among us. Check us out!

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Most Recent Teachings Available

Show me your works and I'll show you your faith

Kathryn Doan
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Scripture References:  Luke 3:7-18 and Zephaniah 3:14-20   When John the Baptist came out of the wilderness, calling people to repentance in preparation for the coming of the Lord he demanded action not pious words of faith.  In fact, he made it very clear that one’s religious pedigree was of no import now, what mattered was whether one acted in ways that were just and compassionate.  And he did not mince his words.  “You brood of Vipers who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits that befit repentance,” be bellowed at the multitudes who had gathered round to hear him prophesy about one who would baptize people not with water but with the Holy Sprit and with fire.  This was not some cute little baby in a manger he was talking about, this was someone who was coming to shake things up but good.  You did not want to end up on the wrong end of His winnowing fork.   

The Best of Times - The Worst of Times

Mark Lewis
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I want to again say, thank you so much for allowing me to be part of your service today. Bill Mefford and Marty are dear friends of ours. We got connected first back when we were studying together in the Missiology School at Asbury, going back about 20 years.

Bill and I have just been been pretty much hanging out from a distance ever since then, and so Bill is great.

I mean, as you know, Bill is kind of weird. Bill, I'm not revealing any secrets, am I?

We invited Bill to Denmark some years ago. He also came and spoke at one of our summer camps. And you know, Bill, I mean, this is just an indication of who Bill is. You know he wanted to learn a little Danish, just to be just to come and mix in a little bit. but you know the only phrase that Bill ever learned in Danish was and still is, “I would like to have a manicure.”

Still, I still don't get it, but that's all he knows in Danish.

So anyway. I'm very grateful, Bill.

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