BY CHRISTINE KUMARUMConnection StaffFor the first time in the denomination?s history, a deaf United Methodist Church will be featured in a curriculum series.Members of Christ Church of the Deaf in Baltimore were filmed by a camera crew from the United Methodist Publishing House while performing...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News June 23, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 12 FROM THE EDITOR Wine, wine, wine By Erik Alsgaard UMCONNECTION STAFF Alsgaard During Annual Conference, I heard a United Methodist bishop lie. During worship. In public.And it's not the first...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary AUGUST 6, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 14 NEWS UMs pray for Liberian relief By Tim TantonUnited Methodist News ServiceAs war and starvation ravage her native Liberia, Abbie Kla-Williams prays for increased U.S. intervention and...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection MAY 15, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 10 COMMENTARIES BOB HUNTER How do we respond to disaster? BY BOB HUNTER What can local congregations do to help the victims when disaster strikes? The sufferers need human...
FROM THE EDITOR by Erik AlsgaardI hope you'll read the story that starts on page one on the results of a clergy survey conducted in the past few years by the Baltimore-Washington Conference's Commission on the Status and Role of Women, or COSROW. The survey asked several important...
NEWS BY WOODY WOODRICKElectrical wires and telephones lines might have been lost in the hours and days following Hurricane Katrina, but the United Methodist connection was up and working.Two pastors in Laurel, Miss., which saw hundreds of trees fall across homes and power lines, say the...
By Mark Schoeff Jr.United Methodist News ServiceOn a magnificent, sunny spring day, Angelo Maker embarked on a journey down the National Mall that was only a fraction as harrowing as the one he undertook nearly 20 years ago in Sudan. But he approached his trek through the Save Darfur rally on...
Job 1:13-22BY DENNIS WHITMOREFirst, the oxen and donkeys are stolen. Then, a fire from the sky (an act of God?) wipes out the flock of sheep. The camels are stolen by Chaldean raiders. Then, in the same day, if not the same hour, a 'mighty wind' collapses the house where all 10 of Job?s children...
Churches often focus on giving. But in learning to receive, Brightwood Park UMC in Washington, D.C., took another step in their Discipleship Adventure and gained new understanding of what it means to be connectional.This summer, a 65-member Volunteers in Mission team of youth and adults from...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News July 7, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 13 NEWS Capital campaign expands to Annapolis By Erik Alsgaard UMCONNECTION STAFFThe Funding Future Ministry program, a local church-driven capital funds campaign, will expand next to the Annapolis...
