Teaser:Team from Baltimore provided help at the Manna HouseMinistry offers ‘manna’ to the poorBALTIMORE – The Rev. Rod Miller, conference Director of Connectional Ministries, was one of nine people from the Baltimore Regional Team who recently spent time at Manna House doing...
Teaser:Calvery UMC Mission team traveled to TexasMembers of Calvery UMC traveled to Texas for a VIM trip to rebuild homes affected by floodingFREDERICK – It took two long days of driving for the Calvary UMC mission team to reach Christ Covenant UMC in Belmont, Texas, to help rebuild homes...
Teaser:"For God so loved the whole world…" But we're called to find our slice and love it. Two stories of messy, transforming love. Who is the Church?Ten students from Wesley Seminary went on an immersion experience to Haiti, led by the Revs. Malcolm Frazier and Rev. Adrienne Terry...
Teaser:A hand written letter written by a 19-year-old boy in UgandaOn June 21, Michelle Cardwell read a handwritten note given to her by a 19-year-old boy in Uganda. She edited out some of the more graphic portions. To: The Christian servants of GodFrom: JamesHello, church. Praise God! This is...
Teaser:A Bel Air couple discovers a remarkable blessing when they meet with Uganda's child soldiers BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF They’re called the invisible children – a generation of young boys and girls in Uganda who were torn from their villages, sometimes forced to...
Teaser:Medical, pension and apportionment payments can now be made electronically In a move to improve upon its missin to be faithful stewards of God's gifts, the Baltimore-Washington Conference has implemented a new system for computerized giving. Through Gateway, churches are now able to...
Teaser:A report on connectional giving from CFA President Charlie MooreBY CHARLIE MOORECOUNCIL ON FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Many thanks to all of our local churches who are up to date on their 2009 apportionment payments. Unfortunately, there are still a number of churches that are not there...
Teaser:A delegation from the BWC recently visited our new partners in BY ROD MILLER SPECIAL TO THE UMCONECTION The Baltimore-Washington Conference is unique in that we have three covenant partnerships around the world -- the Zimbabwe Annual conferences, the South Conference in Korea, and...
Teaser:David Hosey works for peace with justice in the Middle East. BY CARRIE MADREN UMCONECTION CORRESPONDENT David Hosey often thinks of the patient widow in Luke 18. In the parable, the patient widow returns again and again to the judge – who neither feared God nor cared about men...
Teaser:Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, a United Methodist, weighs in on needed changes in national health care By Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders The United States has the best “sick care” system in the world, but our “health care” delivery system is lacking. We have...
