Discipleship Adventure: Celebrate

Below are the most recent resources to help you Celebrate the Adventure.

Grace on the half shell
A new symbol to glorify God – the Easter Oyster.

Late night church serves restaurant workers
Cabin John UMC offers worship at Taipai 101 at midnight on Mondays.

ROCK inspires teens to 'Go fish'
Almost 6,000 youth gathered at ROCK 2011 in Ocean City to learn about discipleship and grow in their relationship with Christ.

Prodigal event redefines worship
400 UMs meet to experience and learn about transformative worship.

'Let your story be your song'
The Rev. Kevin Smalls takes a poetic pass at the Prodigal son.

Newest faith community begins
The Vine inspires new ways of growing.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month was celebrated this year with a reflection on the power of the mustard seed.

Lift high the cross
The cross and flame rise atop the BWC Mission Center.

Mt. Nebo UMC builds for the future
A local church dedicates its new three-story addition.

New hall consecrated
Hopehill UMC reaches out to the ecumenical community at the blessing of their new fellowship hall.

Prayer: Entering into a conversation with the holy
Prayer transforms. It changes hearts, it alters lives. Read stories and find resources to enrich your prayer life.

Encountering Christ
Encounter, the conference’s first music festival at Camp Manidokan, drew more than 50 young people.

Resources for the Adventure: Playing a new song
A number of exhibitors at annual conference offered resources to help churches grow in the Discipleship Adventure

Ordination vows anchor pastors to Christ
Eight elders and one deacon were ordained and seven were commissioned as provisional members at an ordination service where Bishop Janice Huie described pastors "as the rope between God and people."

Conference opens with passionate worship
Passionate worship was the theme of the BWC's 226th annual session

Mt. Zion creates ‘church with jeans on’
Service experience creates a model for young-adult worship

Church celebrates worship
“Worship is who we are,” the bishop said at a training event on designing prodigal worship.

Ancient-future worship invokes Holy Spirit
The Rev. David Shank and Solley UMC are combining some of the best of devotional disciplines and creative outreach in a unique worship experience.

UM stats show declinle at decades end
The United Methodist Church experienced significant decline in baptism and new membership, but reflects growth in racial diversity.

Manor marks 30 years
Residents of N.M. Carroll Manor, a retirement community with historic UM ties, celebrate an anniversary.

Adventure - Second Mile Giving
Giving above and beyond can often be the stretch God is calling us to.

Area UMW connects with uranium widows
When the women of Asbury UMW provided transportation for a group of visiting Navajo women, they didn't know they were beginning a soul-stirring relationship.

Embracing all abilities
The human condition calls for a sound 'theology of disability'

Smart Goal Setting

'Church Wide Open' spreads contagious hope
Several Dundalk and Edgemere congregations abandoned their buildings one Sunday to worship amid the community.

Lives and ministries remembered in service
Remembering Friends

Bible studies encourage congregations to be inclusive
Three young adults explore how the church can deepen its impact

Conference shares story of ‘extravagant grace’
Opening worship sets the stage

Innovation launched at Crossroads
Metropolitan Memorial UMC in D.C. begins an innovative new worship service that breaks with convention.

Music can recover the heart of worship, organist says
The new president of the American Organists Guild speaks out on the state of music in today’s worship in area churches.

Baltimore gathers with hope
Members of the newly aligned Baltimore region met for worship and to learn to say "amen with an attitude."

Church embraces prayer to address D.C. violence
Brightwood Park UMC faces murders in their community head-on with a night of prayer.

Baltimore City and beyond: celebrating hope
As the churches are aligned in their new districts, Baltimore congregations are gathering to celebrate their rich history and promise-filled future.

Church grows 25 percent in one morning
One hundred-member Mt. Carmel UMC in New Market added 25 new people to their rolls. The growth stemmed from one youth who requested “to be baptized like Jesus

Worshipping outside the boundaries
Sometimes the best place to worship isn’t the sanctuary. Sometimes “church” can distract us from God.

Mysteries of faith come to life at deaf church
A movie crew from the Board of Discipleship came to Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf in Baltimore recently. The church's pastor, the Rev. Peggy Johnson, was a little nervous before the filming. Hers was one of only three churches that would bring the holy mysteries of Communion to life in the film.

Dance as faith journey
Dance and theological education? It may sound like a surprising combination, but at the Luce Center for Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, they go hand in hand.