BY LINDA WORTHINGTONUMCONNECTION STAFF2006 was a rich year for the Discipleship Adventure, as the 692 churches of the Baltimore-Washington Conference joined to together to celebrate, connect, develop, serve and share their faith. We pause to look back:Faithful CelebrationMany events and...
Ruth Iglehart Hill, 97, the widow of the late Rev. Walter Hill, died in the Asbury Village Health Center June 27. The Rev. Mark Derby officiated at a memorial service in late August, held at the chapel at Asbury Village, where she had lived since 1989. She was a member of Grace UMC in...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News July 28, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 14 NEWS Center to tell story of children's ministry By Melissa Lauber UMCONNECTION STAFFIt started out 130 years ago with the cries of one child whose mother sought to place him in a United...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Across the Conference AUGUST 6, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 14 Across The Conference Church celebrates 145 years of ministry TOWSON In 1858 Euriah and Elizabeth Carter deeded 20 square perches of land to the...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection JUNE 5, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 11 Hunger summit speakers urge church to mobilize BY JORETTA PURDUE United Methodist News Service Americans who cannot deliver a dollar a day to the hungry people of the world...
By Melissa Lauber I like it when mathematicians write complicated equations on glass. There is something intriguing about the transparent complexity that seems to hold a sense of potential and wonder.But despite my fascination, math is a foreign language to me. I am not a numbers person...
FREDERICK ? When the Rev. Terri Rae Chattin was welcomed as the new district superintendent of the Frederick District Sept. 11, she was presented with a quilt of hands. Each church was invited to send a quilt square depicting the hand print of someone from the congregation. The squares were...
BY LINDA WORTHINGTONUMCONNECTION STAFFMarvin Wamble, a conference lay member from Ft. Washington UMC, stood at a mic in the aisle in the Pavilion of Pier 6 in Baltimore during the Laity Session at annual conference. He was there to illustrate how to be heard from the floor of annual conference...
Epiphany is a season of gifts and light, for it was a radiant star that led three wise men to visit the newborn Jesus and offer him their gifts. This season, five United Methodist churches reflect on the essence of what it means for them to be members of the body of Christ and the ministries...
Commentary reprinted from the UMConnection: News July 29, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 14 VIEWPOINTS Letters to the editor Jesus can transform homosexuals I am writing in response to Adele Hutchins who expressed her views on homosexuals in the ministry in a letter to the editor...
