By Tracy McNeal On April 29, we celebrate the 99th birthday of Eunice Mathews. This article was originally written by Tracy McNeal for the Board of Global Ministries April 30, 2004. It’s not every day that The United Methodist Church gets the opportunity to honor one of its leading...
By Tracy McNeal On April 29, we celebrate the 99th birthday of Eunice Mathews. This article was originally written by Tracy McNeal for the Board of Global Ministries April 30, 2004. It’s not every day that The United Methodist Church gets the opportunity to honor one of its leading...
By Bishop Felton Edwin May (retired), Pastor of Turning Point UMC, Trenton, N.J. By all means, save some! Tragedy comes in threes, some say. If that is so, then we’ve had our share on U.S. soil over the past two weeks. What’s left are vexing questions about what we can and will...
In split decision, church’s top court rules on Western Pennsylvania/East Africa dispute SEATTLE — A 10-year financial dispute between the Western Pennsylvania Annual (Regional) Conference and the East Africa Annual Conference that wound up before The United Methodist...
A UMNS Report A UMNS photo illustration by Cindy Caldwell. Photo by Mike DuBose. From shock, fear and anger to mourning, emotions have run the gamut this week as U.S. conferences have dealt with tragedies of many scales. Throughout the challenges, United Methodists across the...
Jon Thomas “Tom” Dols, 74, the husband of the Rev. Patricia C. Dols, retired pastor of Memorial UMC in Poolesville, died suddenly Feb. 13, 2013. District Superintendent Vivian McCarthy and the Rev. William “Bill” Maisch officiated at a funeral service Feb. 18 at...
Helen Bickel Wolfe,79, of Westminster, wife of Rev. Charles E. Wolfe, retired Elder, died March 5, 2013, at Carroll Hospice’s Dove House in Westminster. A memorial service was held March 14 in Little Baker Chapel at McDaniel College with the Rev. David A. Highfield officiating. ...
David Allen Hetz, 62, the husband of Pastor Sandy Hetz who serves Mt. Savage UMC, died Feb. 8, 2013, at the Western Maryland Regional Medical Center. The Rev. Harry Burchell Jr. officiated at a memorial service Feb. 19, at Mount Savage UMC. Allen, his preferred name, Hetz was born Oct. 30...
Bel Air Methodist Church hosts 'multi-sensory' labyrinth for Holy Week Inside Bel Air United Methodist Church, visitors on Good Friday were not entering the fellowship hall but embarking on a journey through Jesus' last week in Jerusalem. Palms and cloaks lay at the...
Rev. Evert Leon Dage, 94, died Jan. 12, 2013, one month after the death of his wife, Mary Ellen Dage, 84, Dec. 11, 2012. Funeral services for each of them were held at Springwood Baptist Church in Buchanan, Va., hers on Dec. 15, 2012, his on Jan. 16, 2013. She was born June 25, 1925, to the...
