This past Wednesday morning, I woke up to what I thought was going to be another quiet day of managing through this never-ending Covid pandemic. However, this calm was totally rocked as I opened my first WhatsApp message from a friend in Zimbabwe and read: “It’s so sad Pro Furusa is no more...
How can congregational leaders discover their faithful next step in ministry to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world? The Catalyst Initiative, a new emphasis in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, will help provide answers to this question, and many more, in the...
If you’ve ever doubted “girl power” you haven’t met Julia Barnes, 9, a member of Glen Mar UMC in Ellicott City who has set out to change the world and is ready for your help.
United Methodists know Jesus’ Great Commandment “to love your neighbor” by heart (Matthew 22:39).In the year ahead, church leaders throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference are invited to live this commandment in ways that build a Beloved Community.
(Bishop Cynthia Fierro-Harvey, president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, has endorsed this statement from Bishop Easterling.) January 6, 2021 In...
Call to prayer and witness Churches called to illuminate buildings this week to support fairness and democracy As Congress prepares to certify the results of the U.S. presidential election on Jan. 6, as part of an election season unlike any other in recent memory, United...
On Dec.18, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, spoke at a service of prayer and solidarity at Asbury UMC in Washington, D.C., where vandals recently tore down and burned a Black Lives Matter banner. Bishop Easterling's remarks at Asbury UMC We...
Beloved: Mary probably didn't hear the choir of angels. On that first Christmas night in Bethlehem, it would have been chilly, there would have been pain mixed with tears after giving birth, alone in a strange place, as a teenage girl with a man she barely knew, separated from all...
By Erik Alsgaard After demonstrators tore down a Black Lives Matter banner from the front of Asbury UMC last weekend and then burned it in the street, more than 400 clergy, laity, and faith leaders gathered on the front steps of the church, and virtually, to put up a new one. In a Service...
The year 2020, of course, has been like no other. Since the pandemic started dealing its deadly effects in mid-March, churches across the Baltimore-Washington Conference have had to adjust quickly to changing realities. Those changes included moving worship services out of buildings and...
