Events

Alternative Christmas Market SATURDAY, NOV. 16 10-2 & SUNDAY, NOV. 17 10-2 An Alternative Christmas Market is coming to Davidsonville United Methodist Church again this year. Shoppers may buy unique gifts AND help women in less developed countries. The United Methodist Women are sponsoring the sale which has items from Ten Thousand Villages, a fair trade organization. The organization buys the items at a fair price, then markets them in the United States. There will be an amazing range of items including toys, scarves, placemats, jewelry, various baskets, scented soaps, stationery sets, and different olive wood items. Christmas ornaments will be available. There will be many items different from last year. Buying goods from a Ten Thousand Villages pop up shop directly helps people with little access to other ways to earn income. Ten Thousand Villages will also donate a percentage of the proceeds to the UMW for hosting the event - these funds will be donated to a local shelter for battered women.

Annual Christmas Bazaar and Silent Auction, 17 vendors, great silent auction, Activities for children, Crafts, Bake sale.

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, Divine Mercy Care (DMC) will host a very special celebration of a “Generation of Life” at the Tysons Sheraton, 8661 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182. This year’s Annual Gala with Open Bar, Dinner, Dancing, Live Band and a Live Auction marks the 25th Anniversary of Tepeyac OB/GYN. Evening starts with 600 pm cocktails and 700 pm dinner follows. For a full quarter century now, Tepeyac has been offering healthcare that transforms hearts and honors life. Please join us in celebrating this wonderful milestone and help ensure that women continue to have access to Tepeyac’s life affirming medicine for many more years to come. Visit their website at https://www.divinemercycare.org/gala/ to purchase tickets. Early bird price is $175/ticket. Price increases to $200/ticket on October 17th.

If you wish to make a donation, it is tax deductible. DMC is a 501 ( c) (3) organization with a vision to Transform Hearts Through Healthcare. Please call 703/934-5552 to make a donation by phone.

Come see "Letters to Sala", presented by Georgetown Visitation’s Masqueraders. You do not want to miss this wonderful production November 22-24, 2019. ABOUT THE PRODUCTION Adapted from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner and based on a true account, "Letters to Sala" is a remarkable story of a young girl's survival during wartime Germany. Five years. Seven Nazi labor camps. Over 350 hidden letters. Sala Garncarz Kirschner kept her secret for over fifty years, concealing her incredibly painful history in a board game box. "Letters to Sala" draws from the emotional journeys that begin for both Ann and Sala when the letters resurface. As Ann processes her own reaction to her mother's story, her daughters, Caroline and Elisabeth, also realize for the first time the weight of their Jewish heritage. Simultaneously, Ann's study of the letters throws Sala into the past again. If Sala risked her life to hold onto them as a young woman imprisoned in a work camp, are they merely the emotionally rich relics of her past life? Or are they worthy and important historical documents that demand to be shared with the public? Three generations of Kirschner women must work together to sift through the past and come to terms with the true gravity of Sala's letters.