MINISTRY & SERVICE

We serve God by serving others

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith;  if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. Romans 12:4-8

Ministries

Van/Transportation Ministry
Worship Team
Evangelism Ministry
Leadership Team
Christian Education
Youth Ministry
Feeding Ministry (Helping Hands)
African Heritage Group
Young Adult Ministry
PATH Ministry
SASSY Senior's Ministry (Senior Adults Socializing and Seeking Youthfulness- S.A.S.S.Y.)
Radical Hospitality
Missions
Health & Wellness
HIV/AIDS
Source Collaborative Ministry
Stewardship
United Women in Faith
United Methodist Men
Caribbean Alliance
CROP Hunger Walk

Helping Hands - Feeding Ministry
Food Drives/Deliveries

SHARE - Food Network
Affordable groceries for the community

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The Neighborhood Well - Shower Ministry
Mobile shower program for unhoused neighbors

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Health & Wellness Ministry
Vaccines & Testing

• COVID-19 Vaccines and Testing are ongoing
• Diabetes Clinic regularly available
• HIV/AIDS testing

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All three COVID-19 Vaccines and boosters are available for teens and adults 16 years and over here at First Church. Contact us for the schedule or for more information.

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Caribbean Alliance
The Caribbean Alliance Group of First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville consists of Caribbean immigrants and/or descendants of Caribbean immigrants, who are either members of First Church or attend First Church.  

It was formed 20 years ago by Rev. Michael Graham, a Jamaican minister, then a Wesley Theology Seminary student, serving as a student pastor at First Church.  He was glad to find members who were of Caribbean background in the congregation, and surprised that they did not know each other!
Our Mission is consistent with the broader multi-cultural mission of First Church.   We are successfully active in three different areas:- our local church, in the Caribbean and in the Washington DC Metro area.

United Women in Faith
The Women's Ministry of First Church known as the United Women in Faith (UWF) is a community of women whose purpose is to act boldly by strength, faith, and grace and above all to know God. We seek to put love in action by sharing and  experiencing freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; by developing creative, supportive fellowship; and through expanding concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.  

United Methodist Men
The purpose of the United Methodist Men of First Church is to provide a dedicated ministry that builds men spiritually and involves men in evangelism and the mission and spiritual life of the church.  
This purpose is served as men learn to model themselves after the servant leadership of Jesus Christ in our homes, businesses and communities.

African Heritage Group
AHG is a nonprofit church-based organization formed by the collaboration of collective and culturally diverse African family environment at The First United Methodist Church Hyattsville, Maryland.  AHG provides to the First United Methodist Church, Hyattsville, Maryland a forum to identify with the Africans in the church community.

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,  I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’...“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25: 35-36; 40