| Christ clown silently speaks message  SMITHSBURG If Deborah Mooney cant make an impression through her job as a nurse, or as children/youth coordinator at Christ UMC in Waynesboro, Pa., she dons a bright blue wig, a round red nose and paints her face white.
Voila! Rainbow, a Christ-clown emerges, bringing her silent, pantomimed message to an audience that may be patients in Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center in Baltimore, a childrens birthday party, or a class to recruit others to the art of clowning, reported The Herald-Mail Online. Mooney, of St. Pauls UMC, has been clowning for almost as long as she has been nursing 28 years, she said. She usually works alone, but sometimes incorporates her youth group into her Christ clown ministry. Much of her clowning material comes from life experiences, hers and others, and sometimes she goes to her most valuable resource for stories, she said. That would be the Holy Bible. UM pastor called to serve Quakers  SANDY MOUNT The Middle Atlantic Region of the American Friends Service Committee recently welcomed Baltimore-Conference elder, the Rev. Mark Lancaster, as regional director for the social justice organization. Lancaster is on extension ministry from Sandy Mount UMC.
He left the position as executive director of the ecumenical Ministry of Money to answer his call to the Quaker organization. With many wonderful experiences behind me in my professional career and spiritual journey, I know that I can never be fully human unless I constantly seek ways to be bound to the rest of humanity no matter where they live, what religion they practice, what color their skin, or what beliefs they hold dear, Lancaster told MARStar, the organizations newsletter. Church raises funds for AIDS work WASHINGTON, D.C. In its most successful year of raising money to support HIV/AIDS organizations, Foundry UMC raised $83,000 in the 11th annual Concert for Life Sept. 26, reported Barbara Cambridge, chair of the missions work area. The Foundry choir and a professional guest orchestra performed music based on two millennia of Psalms compositions. One hundred percent of the proceeds go to the beneficiary groups that include ministries in South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the Whitman-Walker Clinic and the Childrens National Medical Center in Washington. D.C. Councilman Jack Evans, who co-chaired the event, said, The rate of HIV/AIDS infection remains devastating for many citizens in Washington and around the world. The Concert for Life is both a glorious evening of music and an opportunity for the entire community to respond to a crisis that touches us all. 
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