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Sundays 11 am ET
3133 Dumbarton St. NW
Washington, DC

DUMC Sermons

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.

Get Involved

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.

Adult Ed

Dumbarton offers its Adult Education program to anyone interested on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. except from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Visiting—What to expect on Sunday mornings

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.

Have Kids?

Dumbarton UMC provides child care and children’s education classes for parents participating in Adult Education and/or worship services.

Get Connected

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. .

Service Times

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.

Our Mission & Vision

At Dumbarton UMC Our vision and mission is to help connect people to faith

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.

Pastor Rev. Rachel Cornwell

Welcome to Dumbarton UMC!

Come as you are and be welcomed.

A Reconciling Congregation

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.

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Services

We Gather Every Sunday

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

Plan Your Visit

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.

In Person or Online

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.

Sunday School

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.

Dumbarton United Methodist Church

News & Updates

Dumbarton United Methodist in Local Church History Contest

Dumbarton United Methodist in Local Church History Contest

Dumbarton United Methodist in Local Church History Contest The commission received about one hundred submissions for the Local Church History Contest, and chose 10. The three from the BWC are: Metropolitan Memorial UMC in Baltimore; Dumbarton UMC in Washington D.C.;...

Through the Eyes of Women: A Journey to Palestine and Israel

A few months ago, Dumbarton parishioner Ginny Lapham and former parishioner Rev. Amy Stapleton traveled with women from the US, Ireland, and Canada on a tour of Palestine and Israel.  They met with Israeli and Palestinian women, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian, working...