Teaser:United Methodist congregations are being called upon to begin their advocacy efforts to ensure legalized slot machines are defeated on November’s ballots. BY CHRISTINE KUMAR UMCONNECTION STAFF "There is no hope in slots." That is the message Barbara Knickelbein of Glen...
1 Corinthians 12:12-26 BY MARK SCHAEFER It was an ordinary Sunday worship service at Foundry UMC in Washington, D.C., with processional, choirs, children's sermon, congregational concerns. Ordinary - until the Rev. Dean Snyder welcomed everyone to Foundry, a place, he noted, "where...
Teaser:Mt. Zion UMC is living out a dramatic new faith story as it reaches out to its Baltimore neighborhood in unique and inspiring ways BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF Person-by-person, relationship-by-relationship, the Rev. G. Lind Taylor and the congregation of Mt. Zion UMC is...
Teaser:All Shades of Pink is the brainchild of Denice Whalen-White, who has created a knitting ministry that shares Christ’s love with women in need of care and comfort. BY SHAUN LANE UMCONNECTION STAFF Denice Whalen-White has never battled breast cancer. She doesn't even have a loved...
Teaser:One hundred-member Mt. Carmel UMC in New Market added 25 new people to their rolls. The growth stemmed from one youth who requested “to be baptized like Jesus BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF The 100-member congregation of Mt. Carmel UMC in New Market met at the banks of the...
BY: LINDA BLOOM UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE The United Methodist Committee on Relief is providing humanitarian assistance in politically charged Zimbabwe. UMCOR responded on June 4 to a request for aid and will assist a partner organization working on the ground in distributing food and...
By United Methodist News Service Bread for the World has created its own recipe to help address the growing global food crisis. The "Recipe for Hope" Campaign began on Mother's Day and runs through Father's Day on June 15. Bread for the World is a partner with the United Methodist...
More than 1,500 people attended the 224th Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference May 21-24, under the theme, "Poured Out. Serve Like Christ." The conference members listened to and voted on various motions. Conference District Realignment is Approved The Baltimore-Washington...
BY LINDA WORTHIGNTON UMConnection Staff The choir from Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf, dressed in brilliant purple and gold, sang with their hands and bodies and a heavy drum beat at the beginning of the Service of Remembrance May 24. Families and friends of those who died since...
There is Hope for the City Report to the 224th Session of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference on the Hope for the City Urban Ministry Plan for Baltimore, delivered, May 22, 2008. In the book of Jeremiah, the prophet reminded those in exile in Babylon that they were...
