BY MELISSA LAUBERUMConnection StaffIn their heyday, Methodists were builders. They built - from scratch - educational, medical and cultural institutions that shaped a nation.In this region, American University, Sibley Hospital and the Board of Child Care stand as some of the institutions created...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News September 1, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 16 NEWS Offering health and wholeness, 'no strings attached'By Yvonne J. MedleyUMCONNECTION CORRESPONDENTThere are 'no strings attached' to Saving Station ministries, said Joyce Holland of...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary AUGUST 20, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 15 NEWS Hispanic soccer camp makes camping history BY YVONNE J. MEDLEYUMCONNECTION CORRESPONDENTHistory was made at the West River Center in Churchton, as the first Hispanic Soccer...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection JULY 3, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 12 Plans for one-stop stewardship program approved By David E. Bohnert UMConnection Correspondent Plans are now underway to provide comprehensive, one-stop...
RESOURCES 'Battered Lives, Battered Faith?The United Methodist Church Addresses Domestic Violence' Tuesday, April 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Conference Center, 7178 Columbia Gateway Drive in Columbia.The event is a joint initiative of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, Wesley...
GEORGE RUEA team from Salem UMC spent a week this summer refurbishing a mobile home in the Cumberland Mountains of southeastern Kentuck, where a family of six lives. WOLFSVILLE ? Eighteen members and friends of Salem UMC, from teens to grandparents, spent a week in August...
BY BARBARA COWARDUMCONNECTION CORRESPONDENTThere aren?t that many people who are experts on the endangered Leatherback sea turtles. Few people know that they are the largest turtles in the world, with shell lengths as large as six feet. Or that they swim faster than sharks. Or even that they can...
BY CHRISTOPHER J. TROILOUMConnection Movie ReviewerImagine you?re homeless. Shut your eyes and try to even conceive the thought that tonight, in the cold, you have no place of protection to sleep, no hot meal at the end of the day, no shower and worst of all, nothing you can do about it. Now...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News September 1, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 16 NEWS Africa University professor elected bishop By Andra Stevens UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE The Africa Central Conference, meeting Aug. 19-21, elected a seasoned educator...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Across the Conference AUGUST 20, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 15 Across The Conference Tracing Wesleys life ELLICOTT CITY Twenty-one members and friends of the Glen Mar UMC choir sang July 13 in Wesleys Chapel...
