article reprinted from the UMConnection: Letter From the Editor December 4, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 23 VIEWPOINTS FROM THE EDITOR ERIK ALSGAARD Death penalty should test our faith Nobody ever said being a...
MARTINSBURG, W. Va. ? 'Though the Rev. Warren Watts doesn't have a traditional church congregation to lead each Sunday, his counseling work has reached thousands of people,' a front page story in The Journal reported.Watts is the director, supervisor and counselor of the Tri-County Pastoral...
By Erik AlsgaardUMCONNECTION STAFFOn a bright, unusually warm Jan. 12, members of the St. Marks UMC in Boyds, church leaders, Montgomery County officials and a candidate for governor of Maryland stood on the front steps of the church to see what Paul Hawkins had found there.What he found has...
SILVER SPRING ? The Rev. Victor Sawyer led a Volunteers in Mission group to Ghana in August. On the trip he visited an orphanage, to which the group donated supplies. They met with Samuel Bangura, whose parents were tortured and shot to death, Sawyer said, during the civil war in Sierra Leone in...
BY MELISSA LAUBERUMCONNECTION STAFFThe deaths of 33 people April 16 on the campus of Virginia Tech University, in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, brought thousands of people to 'a place beyond words, a place beyond tears,' said the Rev. Mark Waddell.'It turned some people...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Across the Conference March 3, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 5 Across The Conference Operation Hero Miles provides flights TIMONIUM When U.S. Rep. C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, (D-Md.), who is a member of...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Across the Conference March 19, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 6 Across The Conference Kitchen fire damages church NEW WINDSOR When a parishioner returned to the church on March 3, to pick up something left...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary December 17, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 23 NEWS COURTESY OF JOE DONICK An aerial scene of the Rev. Joe Donicks community following Hurricane Isabel. Conference begins 'unprecedented' Isabel recovery By Melissa Lauber...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary November 20, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 22 COMMENTARIES My mission work is not finished BY CHIEWLEN TEO God is merciful and gracious. I declare Gods goodness. I am a missionary in Malaysia, supported by many...
SMITHSBURG ? Garfield UMC's King's Kids, a youth group of 13 members, raised more than $750 for Bibles for Iraqi children in an unusual way. They rocked all night. Not the kind of 'rock' you might expect from early teens, but in old-fashioned grandparent-style rocking chairs, reported Jeannette...
