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By Maidstone Mulenga
UMConnection Staff

In its new and innovative way to service churches and leaders, Cokesbury has announced the deploying more than 50 community resource consultants (CRCs) including two to serve the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

Cokesbury, the retail arm of the United Methodist Publishing House, is closing all its brick and mortar stores and moving to community-based resource consultants, improved features at Cokesbury.com and a revamped customer contact center.

Earlier this spring, three Cokesbury stores in this area closed, one in Baltimore, one at Wesley Seminary in Washington and one in the Conference Center in Fulton.

In a letter to Bishop Marcus Matthews, UMPH President and Publisher Neil Alexander announced that Cokesbury has named Tyrone Bullock and Denise Karau as community resource consultants for the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

Tyrone Bullock will be based in Baltimore and can be reached at (443) 949-1675 or by email at . Denise Karau will be based in Washington, DC, and can be reached at (202) 200-8137 or at .

As part of their duties, Tyrone and Denise will visit churches and meet with leaders in the annual conference to discuss their resources needs. They will also set up displays at special events in the conference.

Alexander noted that the consultants will be working with a cadre of colleagues in Nashville to match resources with particular ministry needs and to answer questions about products ranging from robes, curriculum and to small group studies through stewardship resources and Bibles.

“Cokesbury is alive, well, and expanding the ways it will serve churches and their leaders,” Alexander noted.