Ephesians 2:1-11BY KEN WALKERThe first of many phone calls came into the office around eleven o?clock in the morning on Monday, April 16. The caller simply asked, 'Is Kyle okay? There?s been a shooting at his school.' That one phone call began a roller coaster week for not only myself, but for...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary February 18, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO.4 COMMENTARIES Do something! The black church must confront AIDS now By Cecil Conteen Gray and Sonya Hunt GrayAt the Baltimore-Washington Conferences second AIDS and the Black Church...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Letter From the Editor March 5, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 5 VIEWPOINTS FROM THE EDITOR ERIK ALSGAARD Im getting ready ... but for what? Therefore you also must be ready, for...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary December 3, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 22 NEWS UMNS Homeless women in Seattle want people to look closely at those whom many try not to see. Theyve posed for a 2004 calendar that captures their pictures and their stories of...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News Stories December 4, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 23 Conference seeks BCC resolution By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff The Baltimore-Washington Conference is seeking resolution of a dispute with the Board...
COURTESY OFPAULA MOOREWASHINGTON, D.C. - The Rev. Lon Chestnut, president of the conference Stewardship Center and Foundation, left, offered appreciation at a church service on Feb. 20 to the Rev. Frank Trotter for his successfully steering the center's development for the past three years...
BY ERIK ALSGAARDAt the risk of being repetitiously redundant and repeating myself over and over and over, I?m going to write about HIV/AIDS again. And the reason is simple: I was told to.See, I attended the 'Lighten the Burden' conference recently in Washington (see my story, page 1). It was the...
By Christine KumarUMConnection StaffSteve Fulkrod wanted to be a disciple for Christ and serve others ever since he was a young boy attending church and Sunday school with his family.Fulkrod, 47, a member of Cokesbury UMC in Abingdon, is reaching out to thousands of people as the vice president...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Letters to the Editor February 18, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thank you for black history story Thanks so much for the wonderful article in the Feb. 4 UMConnection and the great Web feature on the...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary March 5, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 5 COMMENTARIES Open our eyes to the plight of children in poverty BY PHYLLIS E. MAY Phyllis May attended the Bishops Initiative Coordinators event on Children and Poverty in Atlanta Jan...
