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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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.

Merwyn Demello and Art Laffin

Merwyn Demello

Thank-you Bill and Eighth Day Faith Community for inviting me to share this morning.
The July 4th national holiday, fanfare and symbolism is meant to evoke feelings of nationalistic pride and power.
I have been pondering upon the alternatives to these notions of pomp and glory. Can there be a day that calls us to a celebration of togetherness, of our diversity of our oneness with creation? Mahatma Gandhi wrote, My idea of nationalism is that my country may become free, that if need be, the whole of the country may die, so that the human race may live. There is no room for race hatred there. Let that be our nationalism.’