Bruen Chapel would like to extend a huge thank you to Brie, the Bruen Chapel Choir singers, and the Arlington Orchestra for a wonderful Christmas concert last Sunday December 6th. We appreciate you using your talents to worship and put us all in a festive holiday mood. Well done!
Advent started last Sunday and will run through Christmas Eve. But how much do you know about this special season? The UMC site has a daily question to test your knowledge and guide you to resources to learn more. It is like an interactive trivia Advent calendar for the season! We hope you will check […]
In a world filled with darkness and violence, we as Christians are called to carry the light of God’s love. We pray for those dealing with the recent attacks in Beirut, Lebanon and Paris, France.
Just a reminder that Bruen Chapel’s charge conference will take place this Saturday, November 15th at 11 am at the church. The United Methodist Church uses the phrase holy conferencing to describe this kind of meeting and discussion, which is appropriate for a discussion of discipleship and deepening faith. While everyone who participates in the […]
We have handed out Real Discipleship Surveys to many of you in advance of our charge conference meeting on Saturday, but here is the Real Discipleship Survey as a PDF. This assessment will help frame our discussions for how the church can best support our spiritual growth and discipleship in the year ahead. Jesus meets us right […]
This week, we are pleased to bring Rev. Keith Lee to the Bruen Chapel pulpit. Rev. Lee is the associate minister at Trinity UMC in McLean. Please join us in giving him a warm welcome on Sunday at 11:00 am.
November 1st is All Saints Day. To learn more about this holiday and its place in Methodist history, click here. Our worship will begin at 11am. Come and join us!
We pray that we will love one another as Christ has loved us. We pray that God may build the church through our discipleship. We pray that our congregation will be enabled by God to carry out its share of the entire Church’s ministry and mission in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Come and join Bruen Chapel tomorrow at the Merrifield Fall Festival in the Mosaic District. We will have a booth in front of the Great Gatherings and will be distributing balloons, pens, and other goodies. Stop by and say hello!
“We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting them, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” Madeleine L’Engle