article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary May 5, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 9 RESOURCES Dorothy Height: Committed to civil rights By Walter Shropshire, Jr. On her 92nd birthday, March 24, Dorothy Irene Height, influential psychologist and activist social worker of...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary JUNE 4, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 11 COMMENTARIES Annual session provides Holy Conferencing opportunity by DONALD S. STEWART JR.Beginning in the late eighteenth century, generations of Gods people who called...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection APRIL 17, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 8 Conference gears up for annual session BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF Pan-Methodism, stewardship and mission will draw the attention of more than 2,000 United Methodists...
COMMENTARIES HallagerThis year at Leadership Days, I'll be introducing many people in the Baltimore- Washington Conference to the concept of coaching. No, not for baseball or lacrosse teams, but for clergy. Coaching has become one of the most successful support strategies used...
EDWIN SCHELLBy Edwin Schell 200 Years AgoBishop Asbury?s letters, Aug. 5 1805? Thousands attended a camp meeting at Duck Creek. Three hundred were converted July 24-29 under the preaching of Jesse Lee, John Chalmers and others, and the exhortation of Christian Newcomer. Tents...
County awards pastor with ?best honor?GAITHERSBURG - The Rev. Curtis D. King, pastor of Emory Grove UMC, and two members of the church, Carmen Francis and Odessa Battle-Nolan, received a 2005 Montgomery?s Best Honor Award March 31 at ceremonies at the Bethesda Marriott Hotel and Conference...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - For a first-time gathering of the youth ministries of the Washington-Columbia district, Hughes Memorial UMC hosted a 'Holy Ghost Party: Washington-Columbia Youth Coming Together in Unity' Oct. 28. The Youth Ministries of the East of the River UMC (YEASTER) coordinated the...
1 Samuel 27:8-12 By Christine PooleHow many of us have heard the 'don't follow the wrong crowd' speech? Unfortunately for me, I've had to sit through this speech more times then I care to remember. Being a teenager, I have to listen to it at least once or twice a month. You know it. It includes...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Letter to the Editor May 5, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 9 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Institutional church lacks compassion The 'Statement from the Executive Committee of the Council of Bishops,' in response to the acquittal last month of a...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary JUNE 4, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 11 COMMENTARIES Quarterlife Crisis of young adults needs churchs response BY CIONA ROUSE United Methodists can handle a crisis. We may not be prepared for every crisis. After all...
