article reprinted from the UMConnection: News November 17, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 21 NEWS Clergywomen’s gathering defines creativity, community, concerns By Linda Worthington UMCONNECTION STAFF Invisible members of the “cloud of witnesses” surrounded...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary SEPT 6, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 16 COMMENTARIES Faith matters: County should let kids take fliers home BY CHARLES L. HARRELLMark Twain once observed that Americans enjoy three precious gifts: freedom of speech...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection AUGUST 15, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 15 Across The Conference VIM group fights floods in West Virginia COCKEYSVILLE Eleven members of Epworth UMC spent the last week of June on a Volunteers in...
'When wefail to obey God'scommandmentswe becomestagnant.' by Tafadzwa MudambanukiGenesis 1:1-2:42 Corinthians 13:11-13Matthew 28:16-20The meaning of the Great Commission rang true to my life last summer when I got a job at United Methodist Communications.Just after my seminary graduation...
By Betty Backstrom*BATON ROUGE, La. (UMNS) - Response efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are helping United Methodist and government officials write the manual for handling disasters of such magnitude, according to a church leader.'We are still in the relief phase in many of the areas...
UPPER MARLBORO - When the invitation came from Brig. Gen. John I. Pray Jr. of the 89th Airlift Wing to come to 'Clergy Day' at Andrews Air Force Base in early May, the Rev. Michael McKinney of Union UMC was happy to accept.'It was a tremendous experience,' he said. About 100 clergy persons from...
BY RICK VANCEUMConnection CorrespondentWhile the term blogosphere may seem like an electronic no-man?s land to some, more than 50 million people, or 11 percent of Internet users, read blogs on a regular basis, reports the Pew Internet and American Life project. The church ignores such an...
All things are possible through GodMark 10:26b-27BY CHUCK LEGERMy father was born in Bell County, Ky., just before the Great Depression. Bell County was then, and remains today, one of the poorest counties in the country.Many years after he left those rural Appalachian mountains, I returned...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News November 17, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 21 NEWS R.S.V.P. How important are secretaries and administrative assistants to the life of your church? What is the most challenging task they perform? Write a letter to the editior and...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary SEPT 6, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 16 COMMENTARIES Now is the time to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by Willie Caraballo-LopezSept. 15 through Oct. 15 has been designated as Hispanic Heritage Month in the United...
