Teaser:Doris Chan refuses to let langauge or other barriers stand in the way of helping people become disicples. BY CARRIE MADREN UMCONNECTION CORRESPONDENT During a Sunday night study group, Doris Chan rarely sits still. Moving about the group, she leans over to a few older members, quietly...
Teaser:A Baltimore ministry reaches out to immigrant children to deliver Christmas spirit.BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF During the past year, the little boy sitting hopefully in the pew at Salem UMC had witnessed his mother beaten. His father wasn't able to find work. There was little...
Helen Mason Woodland Clifford, 97, the wife of the late Rev. Richard Clifford, died Nov. 16. Her funeral was held Nov. 21, at Simpson-Hamline UMC with the Rev. Yvonne Mercer-Staten officiating. As a widow, Helen Woodland married the widower, the Rev. Richard Clifford, in 1980, while he was...
Rae Taylor, 85, the wife of the late Wilbur A. Taylor, died suddenly from a heart attack Oct. 2. A funeral service was held Oct. 10 at the Hartenstein Mortuary in New Freedom, Pa., which had also handled services for her husband and several generations of the Taylor family. Rae Parrish and...
The Rev. Albert L. Giles Jr., 79, died Oct. 18. The Rev. Louis Shockley officiated at his funeral Oct. 22 at Asbury UMC. The Rev. James S. Gadsden, retired district superintendent of the Greenwood District (S.C.) officiated at a service Oct. 24. He was interred in the Wesley-Mt. Zion Cemetery...
The Rev. Donna Ann Smith, 50, died from an aneurysm Oct. 24 at the Washington Hospital Center. The Rev. Thomas Hagin presided at her funeral at Brightwood Park UMC Nov. 7. Also participating in the service were District Superintendent Ianther Mills, the Revs. Carolyn Hipkins, Mamie A. Williams...
Teaser:Texas UMC becomes accessible, Sudanese women receive light from LaVale UMC, Bishop Yeakel is honored and John Wesley UMC welcomes homless guests. Project answers church's prayer COCKEYSVILLE - The aging congregation of Texas UMC had tried for years to find a way for people to enter the...
By Melissa Lauber Within the Baltimore-Washington Conference, churches that pay their full apportionments tend to be faithful and growing congregations, willing to contribute to the building of clinics, schools, food pantries and churches around the world. "The apportionment funds...
Teaser:When the women of Asbury UMW provided transportation for a group of visiting Navajo women, they didn't know they were beginning a soul-stirring relationship. BY CARRIE MADREN UMCONNECTION CORRESPONDENT When the United Methodist Women of Asbury-Town Neck UMC were asked to provide...
Teaser:We are called to live out our baptisms every day, the bishop tells area United Methodists. BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF Renewal and reviving a spirit of discipleship in United Methodist churches was the highlight of Bishop John R. Schol's agenda when he met with the clergy and...
