On a cold, snowy Saturday in March, an intrepid group of 17 United Methodist Men and their spouses from Severna Park United Methodist Church In Severna Park set out for a mini-pilgrimage in Baltimore. Ready and excited to explore the roots of denominational history, the pilgrims arrived at Old...
The history of Mt. Zion UMC, the area’s oldest African American congregation, will be part of a new immersive musical theatre experience that premieres April 16 on Washington D.C.’s Emancipation Day. Produced by New Music-Theater, the production, “Voices of Zion,” ...
By Ella P. Curry, PhD, MTS, RNFor the BWC-PenDel CoVID-19 Re-entry Team Prologue This is a particularly challenging time for many of us. Attitudes and approaches to the CoVID-19 pandemic are shifting. Confusion and uncertainty accompany mixed messages and sometimes contradictory...
By Melissa Lauber Eleven congregations in the Baltimore-Washington Conference have been working as pioneers during the last year, blazing new understandings of what the church might look like in the future. They made up the pilot wave of the Catalyst Initiative, a process of...
By Melissa Lauber For some church leaders, success is about size, increasing metrics and preaching amid all the spiritual bells and whistles to a mega-congregation. But even though she is new to the ministry, Pastor YouJung Jung, of the Prospect/Marvin Chapel Charge in Mt. Airy, has...
O for a heart to praise my God, a heart from sin set free, a heart that always feels thy blood so freely shed for me.A heart in every thought renewed and full of love divine, perfect and right and pure and good, a copy, Lord, of thine.-- from "O For a Heart to Praise My God," United...
By Melissa Lauber In all things, the Rev. Jacqueline “Jackie” Davis Ford intentionally and actively seeks to follow God. It’s the cornerstone of her faith. Recently, this has led her into a new position as the Director of Connectional Ministries for the Peninsula-Delaware...
From the Minnesota Annual Conference Rev. Dr. Fred Vanderwerf, Southern Prairie District superintendent, and his wife Stacy spent eight years as missionaries in Ukraine. He recently interviewed two United Methodists with unique perspectives on the...
See the response to the postponement from the Council of Bishops. From the Commission on the General Conference As the pandemic continues and the wait time for visas stretches to over two years in some countries, the Commission on the General Conference announced on March 3 that the 2020...
By Maidstone Mulenga The Commission on the General Conference today announced the further postponement of the postponed 2020 General Conference of The United Methodist Church. The next General Conference will be in 2024. In response to the decision, Council of Bishops President Bishop Cynthia...
