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...
“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.
It is always a cause to celebrate when a church becomes more accessible and easier for the community to use. It’s even more so when that church is the Birthplace of American Methodism, Lovely Lane UMC in Baltimore. On a day filled with firsts, the Rev. Deb Scott, the church’s...
The leadership and staff of the Baltimore-Washington Conference are taking a deep dive on implicit bias, a journey they are modeling in hopes that other congregations will come along, too. The training, led by Dushaw Hockett, began last month as more than 60 participants gathered via...
The Rev. Cary James, Jr., at right in the photo above, is a Global Ministries EarthKeeper, environmental engineer, Global AIDS Ambassador, urban farmer, and pastor of Jones Memorial UMC in Washington, D.C. He feels a special connection to Earth Day and offers this...
Imagine you asked for a million dollars and received it. How would you spend the money?
Guidelines for formatting and submitting a resolution to the 2018 Annual Conference Session are now out. The deadline is Jan. 15, 2018.
Churches called to address and advocate for Missing and Murdered Native American Girls and Women Bishop LaTrelle Easterling and the Baltimore- Washington Conference Committee on Native American Ministries are calling on United Methodists to support legislation that will solve the thousands of...
By Erik Alsgaard When the pandemic hit more than a year ago, churches throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference and around the world had to be flexible, and quick. Because in-person worship wasn’t an option, congregations turned to technology to live-stream their worship...
