Teaser:An architect and contractor have begun work on the new conference center, expected to be completed by May 2010.Plans for a new conference center are moving from the drawing board and into reality, members of the Baltimore-Washington board of trustees report.In January, members of the...
Teaser:Training provides keys to church growthBY MATT POOLESPECIAL TO UMCONNECTION“People want to be noticed,” said author Dan Glover. This is a key to connecting people into relationship with the church. Glover described this ability to notice people, not as giving them a name tag...
Teaser:The Rev. Mary Jo Sims reflects on the power and promise of Acts 10. BY MARY JO SIMIS Acts 10:44-4 We know the fifth book of the New Testament as the Acts of the Apostles, but I think we could well refer to it as the Movements of the Holy Spirit. In reality, the Holy Spirit is its...
Teaser:25 clergy will retire from the Baltimore Washington Conference this year.BY LINDA WORTHINGTONUMCONNECTION STAFFEarly reports were that the 2009 retiree class would be a small one, perhaps 10 or so, with some who were eligible deciding the decline in the economy merited another year or two...
Teaser:A recent historical society tour visited Robert Strawbridge country and explored the vision brought to life by Methodism’s first founders. MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF Believing that more people need to discover what the Rev. Jim Talley calls one of “the crown jewels of...
Teaser:D.C. church provides haven to city youthBY MELISSA LAUBERUMCONNECTION STAFFOne April Sunday morning in Washington, D.C., Andrew Smith, dressed in a robe that made him resemble Jesus, led a donkey down the streets of Deanwood, where one-quarter of the residents live in poverty, the average...
Teaser:New policies and faith sharing top the agendaBY LINDA WORTHINGTONUMCONFERENCE STAFFAbout 350 laity and clergy gathered in four locations April 25 to be briefed on upcoming issues for the annual conference session June 4-6.The meetings in each region addressed the same agenda: the 2010...
Teaser:Council of Bishops feeds and prays with day laborers BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF In the early morning light, Jorge Ortiz points to the orange line of demarcation that day laborers at the Hope Depot on Rhode Island Avenue in Washington, D.C., are instructed not to cross...
Lois Esse Kohler, 94, the surviving spouse of the late Rev. Royden Kohler, died Feb. 12 in Albert Lea, Minn. A funeral service was held at the Albert Lea United Methodist Church Feb. 16.She and Roy Kohler were married in 1946 while he was serving in the Navy. He returned to barbering after the...
Walking ‘The Way of the Cross'SILVER SPRING - Pastor Oswaldo Cuevas, who serves the Hispanic ministries at Hughes UMC and Millian UMC, was one of the people who carried the heavy wooden cross along Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring in the early afternoon of Good Friday. The public witness...
