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A Future with Hope

Our family is fairly new to Foundry. We started attending in July 2021, after I was transferred from San Diego to Washington D.C. for work. 

Initially we chose Foundry solely because it was the closest United Methodist church to our house. However, within the first couple of weeks attending Sunday worship services, we felt a spirit moving through the building and people that sadly we hadn’t felt at a church for several years. 

We were immediately struck by how active Foundry was in the community and appreciated the focus on social justice. 

Seeing all of the amazing outward work the church was doing, we transferred our membership in early 2022 and have joyfully been tithing every month to the church since we started attending. 

While we are in a stage of our life right now that physically volunteering is hard, we are helping in the way we can right now through our financial giving. 

It has been a pleasure to be part of a church that is following Jesus’ example and embodying the Christian faith in the world. 

The wonderful outward work and feeling of spirit in the church is what hooked us to the church, but when I got diagnosed with cancer in May 2022, we got to see the love and care of the congregation on a personal level. The prayers have been appreciated and felt throughout my treatment. 

As a lifelong United Methodist and the daughter of United Methodist clergy, I have had the distinct pleasure of attending a lot of different churches. I have experienced churches that do a wonderful job at focusing inward meeting the needs of their members but ignore the community outside of their doors. I have also experienced churches who are so focused on the community outside of their doors that they have forgotten to support and feed the people attending their church. This has led to feeling more like a financial siphon versus a true collaborator with the church. 

At Foundry I have been witness to a church who is able to balance the care for those of us who choose to worship and call Foundry home while still doing the necessary work of supporting the broader community and attending to the greater needs of our society. 

Foundry truly is a place that is living out Jesus’ message both internally and externally, and my family is honored to call it our church home.

Katie Pierce

P.S. I hope you will join me in supporting Foundry's ministry in 2023. Submit your estimate of giving at foundryumc.org/estimate.

 

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