HAVRE DE GRACE - For the past eight months, members of the United Methodist Women and the Sunday school at Hopewell UMC on the Susquehanna Charge, have been creating blankets for children in hospitals and shelters, their second year of having a successful Project Linus project.In all they made...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary March 17, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 6 NEWS Mission leader urges nations to address vicious cycle of poverty in Haiti By Elliott WrightGeneral Board of Global MinistriesThe top mission executive of The United Methodist Church...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Across the Conference APRIL 2, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 7 Across The Conference Board hosts deaf ministry advocates WASHINGTON, D.C. Thirty-two deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf and blind people from the...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary December 17, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 23 COMMENTARIES 'There are only two kinds of people...' By Jon Hann The occasion was the annual Christmas party hosted by the members of Shaft UMC for the boys forestry camp. The...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Letter From the Editor December 18, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 24 VIEWPOINTS FROM THE EDITOR ERIK ALSGAARD Hey, what about Advent? Theres a radio station in DC that has...
More than 120 people gathered at the Methodist Federation for Social Action luncheon May 28, during the meeting of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, where the Rev. Yolanda Pupo-Ortiz was presented with the group?s annual God?s Foolish One award. In her introductory remarks, Barbara Ricks...
By Rod MillerDirector of Connectional MinistriesPrayer ListAs a young person beginning in ministry, someone in a district office sent me a note saying that they were praying for me. I will never forget that. This week we are beginning a season of prayer as an annual conference in which we will...
BY IRA RIFKIN Special to the UMConnectionIt takes a certain chutzpah for a Jew to lecture believing Christians about the New Testament?s spiritual message; even more so when church officials are in attendance. Yet that?s the core of an experiment in spiritual cross-pollination involving one of...
BY CHRISTOPHER J. TROILOToday, Google has quickly become a household name and even an officially recognized verb. Now the search-engine giant's newly acquired online video channel is one of the fastest growing Web sites on the Internet. Even the United Methodist Church is taking part in...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary March 17, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 6 NEWS Que pasa? Translation at General Conference By Linda BloomUnited Methodist News ServiceFor Don Reasoner, the task of providing translation services for non-English speaking delegates...
