Mizo Fellowship a vital congregation By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff “I dam em?” “How are you?” It’s a question the people of the Mizo Fellowship of the Baltimore-Washington Conference have been asking each other for the past nine years. Responding to the...
Associate pastors offer another avenue for growth By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff In 2010, the Baltimore-Washington Conference took what it considered to be a calculated risk, thinking that assigning associate pastors to black churches that seemed to be stuck in stagnancy, would...
Copyright infringement can be costly to churches By Maidstone Mulenga UMConnection Staff When St. Matthews UMC in Bowie received a Copyright Infringement Notice, the pastor and the members were baffled. What did they do wrong, they wondered. All the pastor did was to include a poem in a...
Working to make peace in Cyprus, one teen at a time By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff It might not seem strange to see two17-year old girls playing and swimming together at a pool party. Th is sort of thing happens all the time in summer. But it is an extremely unusual sight if you know...
BWC and Zimbabwe partners adopt a spirit of safari By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff In Zimbabwe you see a diff erent set of stars than the ones that shine above the Baltimore-Washington Conference. In Zimbabwe the average salary of a pastor is $300 a month; the minimum annual salary and...
By Maidstone Mulenga and Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff Bishop Marcus Matthews has named the Rev. David and Sylvia Simpson as field coordinators for the revamped Imagine No Malaria Campaign for the Baltimore-Washington Conference. David Simpson serves as senior pastor of the Ellicott...
Bishop Willimon is wrong about small membership churches. He’s not completely wrong, but he needs correction on three key points made in his recent article, "The Tough Truth about Small Churches," featured here at www.ministrymatters.com and in the newest...
The Rev. Mary Therese "Terrie" Modesto, 57, died June 16, 2013, from pulmonary (lupus) disease in Millington, Md. She had served in extension ministries since 2003. A funeral service was held June 20 at St. James UMC in Westminster with her cousin, Mike Ault, a priest, officiating. Pastor...
Editor’s note: Baltimore-Washington Conference Director of Communications, Melissa Lauber, is part of the 33-person delegation visiting Zimbabwe this month. Lauber is writing a regular blog “postcard,” which you can find here and on our Facebook page at...
Partnership works on building bridges By Erik Alsgaard Two distinct United Methodist congregations—separated by mere miles in the District of Columbia, but by larger issues of race and economics—have come together to work toward finding things shared in common and to improve...
