By Melissa Lauber Sometimes the Holy Spirit catches you off-guard. It’s amazing to me how often God’s voice speaks through everyday United Methodists, who open their hearts to the sacred and then humbly share their response with the world. Most recently, I...
By Rev. Lorraine BrownPastor of Simpson UMC and Executive Director of Project SPIRIT Sickle Cell Aligning with the mission of the Baltimore Washington Conference, Project SPIRIT Sickle Cell (PSSC), seeks to support and enable young adults living with sickle cell disease to be transformed...
To the servant leaders of this Conference: I see you.I see your service.I see your sacrifice. I see the faithful ways you lead even when you’re tired ...
By Bishop LaTrelle Easterling These remarks were presented by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling as the online townhall on Aug 31, the evening before the affiliation of the Peninsula-Delaware and Baltimore-Washington Conferences. Beloved, here we are. Tomorrow launches the experiment between the...
On Aug. 12, the Rev. Neal Christie, the Baltimore-Washington Conference’s Executive Minister of Connected Engaged, met with religious and political leaders in Washington, D.C. to hand-deliver a message about voter rights to Congressional leaders. The message, from United...
By Melissa Lauber It was a scorching summer day at Strawbridge Shrine in New Windsor when Myca Jones and I did a video shoot with Rev. Doug Tzan for a fascinating resource he’s written that illuminates Methodist history in new ways. The heat index was 104 degrees and history negated...
By Rev. Wilson Shearer The Rev. Wilson Shearer was friends with the recently deceased Bishop Joseph Yeakel for 68 years. Shearer was recently asked by Lebanon Valley College to reflect upon their relationship. He remembers: When I first met Joseph Yeakel in 1947, it was at an activity...
By Ashley B. DreffGeneral Secretary, Commission on Archives and History June is Pride month. I want to take a moment to celebrate a piece of United Methodist history prior to the insertion of language regarding sexuality into the 1972 Book of Discipline. In 1964...
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...
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...
