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Welcome to the Web site of the Potomac Association of the United Church of Christ. Here you will find more information about the churches in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia that make up the Potomac Association, as well as the association itself.

No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome  in our churches--and on our Web site!

Potomac Association Organizes Conversations on Racism
Potomac Association clergy, congregations and friends are invited to join in a series of conversations about racism, scheduled over the next few weeks. The goals are to acknowledge racism in the church and society; to work together to dismantle it by engaging in conversations about how it affects individuals and churches; to live out God's call of transformation as the beloved community and to build an anti-racist identity, church and network.  The October 11 session, "Race, Racism. . .. the Biblical Narratives and Current Realities," will be held from 9 to 11:45 a.m. at Bethesda United Church of Christ and will feature Dr. Cain Hope Felder.  The second, "Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: Patriotism or Exclusion?", will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday November 1 at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC. The third session, "Racism and Urban Poverty," will be held Saturday November 15 from 9 to 11:30 at Covenant Baptist Church in Washington, DC.

Potomac Association Youth Attend National Youth Event
Nearly 30 youths and adults from the Potomac Association were among the 100-member contingent from the Central Atlantic Conference who attended the UCC's National Youth Event this summer in Knoxville, TN. Megan Disselhorst of Little River UCC in Annandale wrote a prayer that was read at the closing worship service, remembering the victims of the tragedy that had just occurred at the nearby Tennessee Valley Unitarian-Universalist Church. The text of her prayer is available at http://www.ucc.org/news/nye-youth.html.