By Linda WorthingtonUMConnection Staff “Legacy, legacy, legacy,” was the operative word-of-the-day when the Baltimore-Washington Conference United Methodist Women gathered at the Mission Center March 25 to celebrate its 150-year anniversary. “We pray, study and march,&rdquo...
St. John's UMC in Lutherville recently lit more than 1,000 luminarias for peace. Linda Worthington reports.
By Linda WorthingtonUMConnection staff In July, Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg became the first retirement facility in the Washington region to be certified as LGBT-friendly. It was certified by SAGE, a national advocacy organization specifically focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual...
By Linda WorthingtonUMConnection staff In her opening remarks to the 2018 Mission u, formerly known as the School of Christian Mission, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling urged participants to attend the United in Love Rally in downtown D.C. Aug. 12. The rally is being staged to counteract and oppose a...
By Linda Worthington Each year at the Annual Conference Session, it is with a mixture of sadness and gladness as the retirees are recognized for their years of service to the church: sadness that we’ll no longer (most likely) see them around the conference, at least in their expected...
By Linda WorthingtonUMConnection Staff Laity filled the Harborside Ballroom May 30 at the Annual Conference Session. Delores Martin, chair of the Conference Board of Laity, presided. The program featured presentations by two national church leaders: the Rev. Barbara Lemmel, a pastor in the New...
BY LINDA WORTHINGTONUMConnection Staff “Churches Address the Opioid Crisis” was the topic as WesleyNexus held its sixth annual interfaith gathering at the Conference Mission Center Feb. 10, in recognition of Evolution Weekend. The Rev. Maynard Moore, founder/director of WesleyNexus...
Is there an intersection between faith, science, and ministry? If so, where? A recent convocation sought some answer.
On Martin Luther King Day, Bethesda UMC and Chevy Chase UMC came together to make more than 20,000 meals, bound for Peru.
The Baltimore-Washington Conference's United Methodist Women held their annual meeting in late October and while celebrating their 150th anniversary, heard a challenging sermon from their bishop.
