Roughly half of the churches in the Baltimore-Washington Conference are involved in a ministry to address food insecurity in their community. That’s according to Dave Schoeller, Business Data Analyst for the BWC, who was part of a team analyzing the results of a summer 2020...
by Erik Alsgaard You know that old saying: “When life gives you lemons…”? That is exactly what happened at Rehoboth UMC in Williamsport this summer. Last October, the congregation at Rehoboth moved lock, stock, and barrel from its land-locked location in downtown Williamsport...
By Mandy Sayers* I was sitting around recently, lamenting the state of the world and the state of the church, and how this is just the worst time to be the church, ever, and I was reading Hebrews 11. And as I read the list of names — Noah, Abraham, Rahab, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses...
By Daryl Williams* We are living through a significant moment in history. Globally, COVID-19 has upended everything that we know. It has changed how we live, how we work, and how we play. The threat to life and livelihood has caused people across the globe to rethink how we do everything. We...
See who has received grants thus far Responding to the needs of those caught in the coronavirus pandemic has brought church leaders to their knees in prayer and raised them to inspiring heights as they minister to the area’s most vulnerable people. “We are seeing persons be the...
A screenshot from the Training Tuesday webinar, April 7. By Erik Alsgaard What people need the most, right now, during a global pandemic, is reassurance that we will get through this. That’s the job of clergy and lay leaders throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference, according to...
