| Saving stations seek empty parsonages in Baltimore, D.C. http://www.savingstation.org/ BY LARRY HYGH JR.
UMCONNECTION STAFF Leading more people to Jesus Christ will be the number one goal of 10 summer saving stations in 2002, says Tim Warner, associate council director. According to Warner, the summer saving stations in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., are multi-purpose tent ministries. We want to grow our United Methodist presence on the streets of Baltimore and Washington as a healing factor in the city, said Warner, who added hed like to triple or quadruple the more than 225 people who were delivered from drug and alcohol addictions last summer.  Warner also hopes that the saving stations will help strengthen the family unit. Were going to better establish helping relationships in the family structure of marginalized people in the city, he said.
According to Warner, the Washington effort, which includes eight stations throughout the city, is scheduled to start Fathers Day weekend. There are three weeks in August that have not been picked up by churches in Washington to conduct a saving station Plans are in place for saving stations in Baltimore, said Warner, who is working jointly with the Cabinet to determine the locations and dates of the tent ministries. Stay tuned, said Warner, who encourages United Methodists in the city and surrounding suburbs to make a commitment to ministry in the city this summer. There are many needs and opportunities for people to volunteer to work with summer saving stations, he said. They include evangelism, drug deliverance ministries, tent logistics, security, food and childrens ministries. Warner says he is also looking for three parsonages in the Baltimore area and three parsonages in the Washington area to use this summer. The first parsonage in each city will house the New Vision Summer Company, five college students who will lead sidewalk Sunday schools, perform community youth ministry, knock on doors and hang fliers in the community. The other two houses will be used as transitional houses, one for men, and one for women. http://www.savingstation.org/ | 
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