Teaser:More than 15,000 UMs serve to 'Change the World.' BY SHAUN LANE UMCONNECTION STAFF More than 15,000 people from more than 250 United Methodist churches in the Baltimore-Washington Conference recently locked arms for a common purpose over a 48-hour period: to make a difference in their...
Teaser:70 older adults meet to discuss church growth at the Older Adults Day Apart. BY LINDA WORTHINGTON UMCONNECTION STAFF About 70 men and women, most of retirement age, attended the fall Older Adults Day Apart at West River United Methodist Center on an overcast day during which the sun...
Teaser:View pictures from Change the World events around the conference.Feature Word:TransformFeature Caption:View images of Change the World events around the conference.
Barbara Weaver Warfield Ehlers, 82, the wife of the Rev. William W. Ehlers, a retired Elder, died Aug. 11, 2011. The Rev. Robert Hunter III officiated at a memorial service Sept. 10, at Centre UMC in Forest Hill. She and the Rev. William W. Ehlers were married in 1987, while he was serving St...
Teaser:Small church builds school; summer program enlivens church; 9/11 victims are remembered; church offers hope to those who wait. Small church builds school UPPERCO – Emory UMC, a church of 50 worshippers, is in the final stages of building a school in the Dominican Republic...
Teaser:Dane Smith of Chevy Chase UMC encounters God as a peacemaker as he works to broker peace in Darfur. BY DANE F. SMITH Since January, I have worked as senior advisor to the U.S. government for bringing peace to Darfur, Sudan's western most region. (It is not part of South Sudan, which...
Teaser:Bishop Schol writes this month on the importance of training for leadership. Dear Sisters and Brothers: Learning, understanding and practice is key to achieving excellence. Physicians, lawyers, teachers, dentists, therapists, office workers all go through a program to teach them skills...
Teaser:Women and families in Baltimore find help and hope as they change their lives. First Day of School of Some Susanna Wesley House residents in Baltimore. Image by: Courtesy Susanna Wesley House Source: New World Outlook BY LESLEY A. CARTER On a recent visit to Susanna Wesley House...
Teaser:Essex UMC never suspected how their efforts to feed the hungry would multiply. BY MELISSA LAUBER UMCONNECTION STAFF On more than 104 Wednesday evenings, during the past two years, a handful of volunteers at Essex UMC served 10,000 meals to their neighbors in Baltimore County. At the...
Teaser:Young adults rediscover hope during mission trip to Haiti. BY HANNAH STARNES EWALD When I first heard about the Baltimore-Washington Conference Young Adult mission trip to Haiti I knew I had to go. For years I had dreamt of going on a mission trip out of the country and making a...
