By Melissa Lauber and Erik Alsgaard The COVID-19 pandemic presented several financial challenges for local churches, and each rose to meet them in diverse ways. The Baltimore-Washington Conference Council on Finance and Administration (CFA) is taking this wide...
Greetings and Blessings in the Name of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, As your Conference Lay Leaders, we affirm that active lay persons in vital local congregations are crucial for accomplishing the mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. We...
“Where is God leading us? What do you think God wants us to be?” Questions like this delight and challenge the Rev. Jack Shitama, executive director of Pecometh Camp & Retreat Ministries in Centreville, Md., in the Peninsula-Delaware Conference. They spur him to dream and cast visions and to...
In the space between people lies the possibilities of God’s presence. The Rev. Neal Christie is excited about claiming that space as the new Executive Minister of Connected Engagement for the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
Bishop Daniel C. Arichea, Jr., a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, died today, June 1. He was elected bishop in the Philippines Central Conference in November 1994. His wife, Ruth, announced his death on Facebook. "At 12:41 this afternoon, June 1, 2021, God...
Because the COVID-19 pandemic caused wide variations in how financial challenges were met by churches in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, the Council of Finance and Administration (CFA) is making an adjustment to the Mission Share formula to ensure congregations do not experience wild...
Old Otterbein UMC in Baltimore celebrates is 250th anniversary this year. The Rev. Cynthia Horn Burkert, co-chair of the church’s anniversary committee, shared this presentation at the Northeast Jurisdiction Commission on Archives and History on May 12. Here is what we are...
“Isaiah 43.” The Rev. Yvonne Penn will whisper this to you in the parking lot. She’ll shout it from rooftops. She’s using it to craft a life and to pastor a church that has its own definite ideas about Isaiah 43.
The Rev. Erica Robinson-Johnson has been appointed to serve in the newly created position of Chief Administrative Officer of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware conferences.
Diversity of thought is one of the greatest strengths of the people of Baltimore-Washington Conference. We see nuance and complexity in everything – sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
