| Coach nets 700 wins in 41-year career CHEWSVILLE Bethel UMC church member, Robert Cokey Robertson, has an enviable record. The former Hagerstown Community College professor and coach of St. Maria Goretti High School for the past 17 years, has 700 victories while coaching boys basketball for 41 years. Hes ethical and moral. He has his beliefs and he sticks with them, said assistant coach Scott Mowbray in the Hagerstown Morning Herald. Robertsons 700 wins were completed as head coach at Goretti High School in the Baltimore Catholic League. Furnishing homes is my passion MONTGOMERY VILLAGE If youre an Hispanic immigrant living in Montgomery Village and needed help furnishing your home, you probably have met Barbara Wells, a member of Covenant UMC, said Suzanne Brown. According to Brown, the churchs coordinator of lay ministries, Wells is truly an angel to many. Wells devotes her free time to collecting furniture and delivering it to those in need. In the past five years, she has found homes for more than 50 mattresses and more desks, chairs and kitchen tables than she can remember, reported the Gazette. Many of the families Wells helps are Hispanic, but anyone who asks is assisted. This is my passion, Wells said. I get joy from the people who give and from the people who receive. Artist makes pieces of history HAVRE DE GRACE When Havre de Grace UMC began its $1.9 million restoration project, the 100-year-old stained glass windows were slated for the trash bin. However, thanks to a longtime member of the church, the windows are seeing new life. Sandy Chase, a local seamstress and artist, volunteered to transform the stained glass into ornaments, candle holders, bowls, lamp shades, crosses, sun catchers and jewelry. Chase has worked with glass for more than 20 years, according to the Havre de Grace Record. She began selling her pieces about a year ago. Chase sells the items and contributes the earnings to the restoration fund. So far she has raised about $4,000. Not only does the project help the church financially, it also helps members get their own little pieces of history, the Record reported. Church offers aid to protect children WILLIAMSPORT Approximately 50 adults and children attended the first Escape School at Williamsport UMC Feb. 24. The hour-long presentation was facilitated by church member Terica Welch. Escape School is a national program on child abduction prevention. Welch provided information for parents, grandparents and children up to age 12 on how to stay safe and learn to identify strangers, not by what they look like, but by how they act. The church is planning to hold several more Escape School presentations, said Joan Knode, chairwoman of the evangelism committee. For information, contact the church at (301) 223-7040. NEJ association elects both Caraballos COLUMBIA Conference Hispanic coordinator, the Rev. Willie Caraballo-Lopez, was elected as a regional coordinator for the Hispanic/Latino Association of the Northeastern Jurisdiction at its assembly March 14 and 15 in Andover, Mass. His wife, Lydia Caraballo-Muoz, was elected as the groups youth coordinator. Several leaders in the jurisdictional meeting requested that The United Methodist Church be more sensitive to the plight of immigrants. Pastor Juan David Rocha of the Baltimore-Washington Conference shared his testimony with the 100 attendees at the conference about how he had to flee from Colombia, South America, after receiving multiple death threats, according to a press release. | 
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