article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary January 21, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 2 NEWS Making the GradeA church must score at least 100 points on the certification checklist to become a certified Welcoming Congregation. Here are a few examples of tasks or functions...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News Stories February 5, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 3 ROCK 2003 excites youth By Sarah Alsgaard Special to the UMConnection How did ROCK 2003 start off this year? With thunderous applause, screams and...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary November 5, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 20 NEWS Greetings from Bishop May And are we yet alive, and see each others face?Glory and thanks to Jesus give for his almighty grace! Charles WesleyWe are gathered again in Gods...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection October 16, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 20 Shootings prompt prayer vigil by Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff An estimated 100 people gathered for a candlelight prayer vigil on the front lawn of...
DAVID A. HIGHFIELDPart of the largest-ever VIM team from the conference lays tile in a new Methodist church in Costa Rica.CATONSVILLE ? Nearly 80 volunteers, the largest Volunteers in Mission team to ever leave from the Baltimore-Washington Conference, spent Feb. 4-12 in central Costa Rica. They...
By Eunice Arias and Luis Aramayo Luis was closing a workshop with pastors and leaders of the Iglesia Evanglica Nacional Metodista Primivita de Guatemala (the Methodist Church of Guatemala). He asked them to share their new insights about the issue of stewardship. A simple, true and...
Consultation celebrates 50 years of clergywomenBY LAUREN LAYSPECIAL TO THE UMCONNECTIONOn Aug. 13, between 75 and 100 clergywomen from the Baltimore-Conference, including myself, traveled to Chicago for the 2006 International United Methodist Clergywomen?s Consultation.The centerpiece of the...
HAGERSTOWN - Otterbein UMC is in the midst of its fifth annual Lenten program, called 'Grace, Graze and Grow,' which began on Ash Wednesday. Adults, teens and children gather weekly at 6 p.m., first to say grace and 'graze' on a fellowship meal. They then disperse a half hour later to nearly a...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary January 21, 2004 On-line VOL. 15, NO. 2 NEWS Carroll Manor stands as beacon for Baltimore seniors By Maribel Cabrera IbrahimUMConnection CorrespondentWhat started as a home for a few elderly Methodists 132 years ago has...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: News Stories February 5, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 3 Church needs remediation, bishop says BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF Theres a fungus among us. This was the message Bishop Felton Edwin May gave to...
