Teaser:Glen Mar UMC in Ellicott City recently moved down the street into a new facility designed for community outreach.BY SHAUN LANEUMCONNECTION STAFFIt might not have always been an easy road for the members of Glen Mar UMC as they built their new church after nine years of planning and...
Teaser:The Rev. Peggy Johnson, of Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf was recently elected to be a bishop. She promises to begin her work “with a sense of wonder, creativity, compassion and grace.”BY MELISSA LAUBERUMCONNECTION STAFFWhen the Rev. Peggy Johnson was recently...
Teaser:The conference Hope Council is bringing some healing to the children of Baltimore by offering camperships to those whose families have been affected by violence. BY MELISSA LAUBERUMCONNECTION STAFFFor four days in mid-July, 251 delegates, 27 youth representatives and 18 bishops met in...
The congregation of Mt. Vernon UMC in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore suffered an estimated $5.5 million in damage to its church building when lightning set off a 3-alarm blaze Aug. 2.Church members, like Betty Callahan told the Baltimore Sun about "fire tongues licking the base of the...
BY MELISSA LAUBERUMCONNECTION STAFFThe sun was barely up and Drusilla Bunch was sitting on a bench by some flowers in the prayer garden at West River Camp looking and wishing for a butterfly."I collect butterflies," she said. "They're free spirits." They're also symbols of...
BY DAVID GRAVESSPECIAL TO THE UMCONNECTIONThis summer, hundreds of United Methodists will be serving as short-term missionaries on Volunteers in Mission trips across the globe. Below, from Bowie UMC, is an example of what they're experiencing.When a person asks, "Why go on foreign mission trips...
BY LINDA WORTHINGTONUMCONNECTION STAFF "Every place you go, God is already there," said Lyda Pierce, resident Northeast Jurisdiction missionary, who has traveled the globe. working for the past 19 years in Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras. Pierce attended the Baltimore-Washington Conference...
Teaser:Bishop John Schol has been assigned to serve four more years as leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.By Melissa LauberBishop John R. Schol was reappointed to serve for four more years as the episcopal leader of the Washington Area.On July 18, the Episcopacy Committee of the...
By Melissa LauberThe Rev. Peggy Johnson, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf in Baltimore, was elected July 17 to be a bishop in The United Methodist Church.Johnson was elected, from a pool of 13 candidates, on the 10th ballot by the 249 delegates to Northeastern Jurisdictional...
By Linda Bloom* Northeastern United Methodists decided July 16 to redraw some denominational boundaries as a way of providing more effective mission and ministry.Voting on a resolution from the boundaries committee, delegates to the 2008 Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference overwhelmingly...
