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AN District News.......UMC Buzz.......May 29, 2020

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Conference offers resources for re-entering well

 

Local churches throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference are following their area government directives for meeting in their buildings, but have also been advised by Conference leaders that congregations should meet for in-person gatherings only when it is safe to do so.
BWC Re-Entering Well Guidelines are available online, along with a number of Tip Sheets. 

 

Churches are encouraged to attend a special Training Tuesday webinar tonight at 7 p.m. on PPP Forgiveness for BWC Churches. Churches that have received funds from the federal Paycheck Protection Program will learn how to fill out the application form to turn these funds from a loan to a grant. 

 

Register online and we'll send you the Zoom sign-in information and password. 

Learn more about re-entering well at  www.bwcumc.org/re-entry.

 

Bishop LaTrelle Easterling invites you to join her at noon every day to pray the Lord's Prayer. The Rev. Stacey Cole-Wilson, the BWC executive minister of justice and service, was recently featured in an ecumenical recitation of the Lord's Prayer, created by the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. We share it to offer you peace and continued strength for the journey.  

Training Tuesday's

 

June 2 – Building Healthy Intentional Discipleship Pathways, Presenter: Rev. Evan Young, Executive Director of Stakeholder Relations, Discipleship Ministries

Learn the basic principles behind See All The People, a movement to help us as United Methodists understand what discipleship and evangelism mean in the 21st century. Engage in discovering whose job it is to make disciples, how to stop fixing problems, and how discipleship begins with relationship. Through sharing a variety of models and approaches to build and sustain healthy, intentional discipleship pathways, you will be inspired and equipped to do the same in your congregation. 

 Click below to register.

https://arenaweb.bwcumc.org/default.aspx?page=3452&event=5802

 

An Inspirational Poem from one of our Annapolis District Laity

I Miss, I Pray

I miss the chance to go to church, to hold hands, hug, and say

“How was your week? Nice to see you!” I miss this, so I pray.

I miss my job and all my kids, even the ones who are tough.

Yet, I know that in these times, many have had it rough. 

I miss my sons going to school to see their friends and play.

I’m fun, I know, but it’s not the same, and so I sit and pray.

I miss a world where we could be together, eat and laugh and talk.  I miss a world where our greatest entertainment is not sidewalk chalk.

I miss you all, our normal world, a world without masks and gloves.  I can’t wait to get back in the church and shower each other with love.

So when life gets you down and you miss everything about your normal day, call out to God, for he is listening.  Reach out to him and pray.

 

Written by: Randy Ogle

From:  Wesley Chapel UMC (Lothian)

 

 

Leadership Development


Applications for the BWC class of 2020-2022 Certified Lay Ministers are now being accepted. Go to www.bwcumc.org/ministries/leadership-development/laity-development to learn more and see if you qualify. (Click "Learn More" under Certified Lay Minister for information and application pack.) The next class will start in September and is a two-year commitment. Certified Lay Ministers preach the Word, provide care ministry to the congregation, assist in program leadership, and are witnesses in the community as part of a ministry team with the supervision and support of a clergy person. Questions can be directed to Linda Flanagan, Conference director of Lay Servant Ministries. 

 

CEUs offered: Discipleship Ministries eLearning is offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for completion of its online classes. The cost is $50 per one unit (10 hours of structured participation in training, workshops and e-learning courses).  Courses are currently offered include: "See All the People," "The Committee," and "How to Start Small Groups." Learn more.

 

Doctor of Ministry Info Day Webinar at Wesley Theological Seminary is tomorrow, May 19, starting at 10 a.m. Leaders, many things have changed due to the global pandemic - do you feel prepared for the reopening of our churches? Will church leadership need to change to adapt to a new world and a new church? Gain new perspectives on church leadership, encounter best practices and new research and forge your new vision for church...a Wesley Doctor of Ministry degree empowers you to do this, and more. Register for Zoom access at http://ow.ly/Dupy50zI9Ok 

 

Webinar Highlights

  

From the BWC's Training Tuesday,  Advocacy and Action Everyone Counts Series, 

Youth Ministry RX  and Meditative Moments from Wellness and Missions:

 

 

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