Winter Solstice Taizé Service
Taizé (pronounced: tay-zay) is a prayerful form of music known for its simple, yet rich and meditative character. Taizé music often takes the structure of an ostinato (a simple melody that repeats over and over) and is meant to serve as a kind of musical centering prayer. This service to mark the winter solstice—the darkest day of the year—will be a short, contemplative evening.
Monthly Potluck After Service
Join us for our monthly potluck after the service (held on the first Sunday of each month)!
Monthly Potluck After Service
Join us for our monthly potluck after the service (held on the first Sunday of each month)!
Silent Retreat at Dayspring
Every year our congregation goes on a weekend-long silent retreat at Dayspring Silent Retreat Center in Germantown, MD.
Retreat at Dayspring is a time to be silent and open to an encounter with God in the interior and exterior silence. We believe that our world provides too little time and space for reflection, prayer and contemplation. The silence of retreat is a gift we give ourselves and others who are with us. As Elizabeth O’Connor wrote in Call to Commitment, “Dayspring is a place where each person’s aloneness with God is respected and protected.”
Scholarships are available—for more information, write to our church administrator, Ginger, at newcommunitychurchdc@gmail.com.
Easter Service & Potluck!
Join us for an Easter celebration service! We’ll have an Easter egg hunt for the kiddos and our monthly potluck together afterwards (but if you can’t bring a dish, no worries—come anyway! :)
Good Friday Taizé Service
Taizé (pronounced: tay-zay) is a prayerful form of music known for its simple, yet rich and meditative character. Taizé music often takes the structure of an ostinato (a simple melody that repeats over and over) and is meant to serve as a kind of musical centering prayer. This Good Friday service will be a short, contemplative evening.
New Community Work Day
Let’s get the after school building ready for the summer! We have a room to paint, some cleaning to do, and some things to move.
New Community Work Day
As our church looks ahead to moving out of the building at S Street in preparation for the S Street Village development project, we ask our members to come out and lend a hand at a work day!
New Community Work Day
As our church looks ahead to moving out of the building at S Street in preparation for the S Street Village development project, we ask our members to come out and lend a hand at a work day!
Easter Service
Join us for our Easter Service where we celebrate our own resurrection and recovery. We will share a meal afterward and offer easter egg hunt for children.
7 Guardians in the Church Where Miles Plays Closing Event
on view through February 2020
Sundays 1-3pm and Tuesdays 4-6pm
New Community Church has a rich history as a boarding house and nightclub for black entertainers who performed at the local theaters during the days of segregated Washington. After the riots in the 1960’s this property and others in the neighborhood had become notorious for drug activity, crime and poverty until the 1980s when it became a small ecumenical church and community center. Local lore has it that when Miles Davis was in DC he stayed at the Jean Clore’s Guest House. Davis’ music has returned by way of Nora Maccoby’s paintings through the exhibit, The 7 Guardians. Join us in celebrating this homecoming!
For more information contact Rachel Dickerson, ArtSpace Director at New Community Church dc.artspace@gmail.com.
Who are we…
New Community Church is a recovery and resurrection church in the tradition of Jesus’ call and vision articulated in the Beatitudes. We are small in number, vast in vision, diverse in membership, informal in style, and dedicated to putting our faith in action by embodying and sharing God’s love and alternative Way of life in Jesus in all areas of life, personal and public. New Community Church began in 1982 as a biblically and neighborhood based church that is racially, culturally and economically mixed. We operate both weekday and Sunday ministries to the historic Shaw Neighborhood near Howard University.
New Community Church has its roots in and approach to membership from the Church of the Saviour founded by Gordon and Mary Cosby in 1947 in Washington, DC.