By Kathy L. Gilbert* Joe Openshaw, 59, and Bobby Prince, 54, met on a beach 12 years ago and the rest is history.” The two have been together through the ups and downs most couples face. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that part of the federal Defense of Marriage...
Ellen R. Brown, 84, who served for 30 years as a church secretary, died June 29, 2013, of complications from dementia. She was in Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. In 1973 she took a job as church secretary at the old St. John's UMC on Harford Road in Hamilton, where she served six ministers...
By Erik Alsgaard* Marie McLetchie, above, tries some of her 'Furlough Soup' at a recent event at Mt. Vernon Place UMC in Washington, D.C. In the heart of Washington, D.C., the impact of the current government shutdown is having an effect on people, both good...
By Cynthia Belt Centennial-Caroline UMC, Baltimore The crises facing the black community today are legion. There is the issue of poverty with disproportionate numbers of persons living at or below the poverty line identified as persons of color. There is the atrocity of the prison industrial...
By Melisssa Lauber UMConnection Staff Hope inspires. Hope heals. Hope transforms. In the Baltimore-Washington Conference, hope recently helped to build 23 churches and parsonages in Zimbabwe. In 2006, the Baltimore-Washington Conference embarked on a $1 million fundraising campaign. Two...
By Maidstone Mulenga UMConnection Staff When the Judicial Council – the highest court of The United Methodist Church – meets in Baltimore this month it will be tackling four cases that address the issue of homosexuality in the denomination. It will also be weighing the links...
By Melissa Lauber & Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff This fall, in six distinct worship services, the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference officially welcomed district superintendents to their new ministries, creating the most diverse Cabinet to ever serve this conference. The...
Tessie Matney Hurley, 93, the wife of the Rev. Robert Lee Hurley, a retired Elder, died July 28, 2013, two hours after her 93rd birthday, her husband said. She had been in hospice care for nearly two years, but “she was determined to hang on to see her birthday.” The funeral service...
Editor’s note: The Rev. Ed Moore is a clergy member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, serving in Extension Ministry at Duke Divinity School. One of the first faculties to suffer when a pastor stumbles into the valley of shadows is the capacity for theological reflection, says a...
Erdella Hannen, 93, wife of the late Rev. William Robert Hannen, died Sept. 15 at Valley Hospice Trinity East in Steubenville, Ohio. A funeral service was held Sept. 18 at the Colliers UMC in Colliers, W. Va., with the Rev. Don Stilgenbauer officiating. Erdella Jane Daugherty was born Jan. 11...
