Teaser:Several BWC members were recently elected to serve on churchwide committees, boards and agencies. As part of the connectional system, members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference were elected to provide leadership for the denomination by serving on a number of General and Jurisdictional...
A study of 33,228 United Methodist churches discovered that the number of small groups a church offers has a direct influence on that church’s vitality. According to the Call to Action report, in churches of different sizes, geographies, cultural groups and theological expressions...
Teaser:Sarah Hidey reflects on the shooting in Colorado and how the church must overcome evil with good.Feature Word:OvercomeFeature Caption:Sarah Hidey reflects on the shooting in Colorado and how the church must overcome evil with good.
Teaser:Rev. Rodney Smothers represented the BWC in recent episcopal elections. BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF At the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference July 16-20 in Charleston, W. Va. three bishops were elected from among 19 endorsed candidates. On the fifth ballot, Sandra Steiner...
Feature Word:ShareFeature Caption:A Kensington church sends food to storm-wracked West Virginia.
BY BARBARA DUNLAP-BERG UMNS A UMNS photo by Kathleen Barry After a lone gunman entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., early on July 20, killing at least a dozen people, the stunned community rallied to support survivors, pray for those who lost loved ones and prepare for a vigil...
Teaser:Bishop Marcus Matthews will serve the BWC beginning Sept. 1. BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF Updated July 23, 12 p.m. Bishop Marcus Matthews is beginning his term as episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference with a call to prayer. As an order of the day, he invites...
Gordia Lanman, 98, the wife of the late Rev. Harold Lanman, died June 7, 2012, of complications from a stroke at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. The Rev. Mark Derby officiated at service June 16 at Grace UMC in Gaithersburg. "She and the Rev. Harold Lanman, retired and widowed...
Teaser:The South Central Jurisdiction's episcopacy committee votes to place Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe in involuntary retirement. BY HEATHER HAHN UMNS OKLAHOMA CITY — By a vote of 24 to 4 with two abstentions, the South Central Jurisdiction’s episcopacy committee voted by more than the...
UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE Only six weeks after the 2012 General Conference, denominational leaders met together to discuss creating more highly vital congregations in The United Methodist Church. The UM Vital Congregations Initiative held a conversation on the campus of Garrett-Evangelical...
