By Carrie MadrenUMConnection Correspondent If you weren’t looking for it, you might not encounter Asbury-Jessup UMC, a small, white wooden church near Route 32 with bright red double doors just yards from Guilford Highway and close to a massive industrial park. But it’s...
Meliissa Lauber UMConnection Staff How will the people of the Baltimore- Washington Conference finance their vision for the church’s future? On Jan. 26-29, about 200 lay and clergy members met at four regional sessions to consider the feasibility of embarking on a $15 million...
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” said the Rev. Martin Luther King in 1968. Later that year, King was shot down on a balcony in Memphis. For Bishop Marcus Matthews, the events of 1968 and this idea of justice are forever etched in his mind. As the...
By Sharon Dean General Council on Finance and Administration The General Council on Finance and Administration reports 20 annual conferences, including the Baltimore-Washington Conference, paid 100 percent of their General Church apportioned funds in 2012 and overall apportionment payouts...
One of our key partners in Zimbabwe, the Rev. Masimba Gurupira, was recently honoured for his service as a district superintendent. By Pastor Taurai Emmanuel Maforo Zimbabwe West Annual Conference Communicator Incessant ululations, clapping of hands and vibrations of the African drum...
But in this service we come together to acknowledge that, in order for America to have a future, we will first need to find a deep and abiding faith in God. It is this faith that calls and compels us to humility and compassion and concern for the nobodies. It is this faith that helps us...
Sylvia Jean Frum, 88, the wife of retired Elder, Rev. Charles L. Frum, and mother of C. Wayne Frum, pastor at Bunker Hill UMC, died at her home Jan.4, 2013. The Rev. Scott Ferguson officiated at her funeral Jan. 7 at the Crow-Hussell Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W. Va.. Sylvia Wolfe was...
The Rev. Orin “Bill” Dooley, 81, died Nov. 7, 2012, after a long bout with cancer. At his request, there was no memorial service. Dooley’s ministerial record indicates he served at Lisbon UMC 1963-1968; as an associate at First UMC in Hyattsville from 1968 to 1970; in Seat...
United by a common desires to end gun violence and the senseless murder by firearms of 33 Americans each day, the nation's religious communities came together Jan. 15 at the United Methodist Building in Washington, D.C. The date that the group, Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence...
The Rev. Don Howard, 87, a retired Elder, died Dec. 21, 2012 of cardiovascular disease. A memorial service was held Jan. 19, at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center in Columbia. Don Edwin Howard was born July 2, 1925, in Marlow, Oklahoma, the son of wagon-train migrants from the Eastern Shore. He...
