| Susanna Wesley House successful BALTIMORE A former Calverton resident and her two sons are one of the first families to occupy the Susanna Wesley House on Park Avenue in historic Mt. Vernon, following its reopening last December. The project of the conference United Methodist Women, operated in a partnership with the Womens Housing Coalition, now includes suites of rooms for nine women and their children. It is a step toward total independent living for the former homeless women. I love living at Susanna Wesley House, said the Calverton mother who was reunited with her children. My 16-year-old son likes being here too. He finally has a room of his own. Susanna Wesley House always needs monetary contributions, personal items for the women, bedding, paper and plastic products and non-perishable food. For more information, contact Joyce McCallister, (410) 256-6156. Man of the Year in Annapolis  OWENSVILLE Leonard Green, a member of Chews Memorial UMC, was recently honored as Man of the Year by the Annapolis District United Methodist Men.
Green has served his local church in many capacities, including lay leader, chairman of pastor-parish relations and the administrative board. He is committed to visiting and ministering to the sick at their homes, nursing homes and hospitals. At the conference level, he has been a regular volunteer in the prayer room, on the Prayer Line, from its inception in June 1997. He is a devoted and caring man of God, said Michael Goins, president of the Annapolis District UMM. Hispanic UMW forms in Bethesda 
BETHESDA The president of the Washington West District United Methodist Women, Marlene H. Bowles, inaugurated a new unit March 21 in Spanish. She presented flowers to the leaders of the newly organized group during a ceremony in the chapel of Bethesda UMC, where the Bethesda Hispanic Mission meets regularly. Amita Watson helped with the translation to install Beatriz Arce as president, Rosa Maria Martinez as secretary and Maria (Maruja) Gutierrez as treasurer. Church launches new charity FREDERICK Members of Centennial Memorial UMC accepted a $6,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Frederick County to redesign 2nd Street and Hope and turn it into a new, independent charity. The grant, and funds raised by the church and the charitys board of directors, will cover architects drawings and plans to renovate the church to provide a shower room, laundry room, restroom, dayroom and nurses office, to more fully meet the needs of the homeless and needy people of Frederick, reported Leona Sauser, a church member on 2nd Street and Hopes board of trustees. The not-for-profit entity grew out of the churchs Shalom Zone. The congregation already supports a Saturday night worship service and supper program for more than 100 people, and a mid-week Bible study. Construction will begin following church administrative council approval and securing sufficient funding to carry the project through, Sauser said, hopefully this summer.
 SILVER SPRING Justice for our Neighbors, a conference-supported legal services ministry with immigrants and asylum seekers, held an open house March 21 in celebration of its new offices at Woodside UMC.
At a recent Conference Council on Ministries meeting, Panravee Vongjaroenrat, who heads the legal services, reported that UMCOR sponsors three of the 16 Justice for Our Neighbors clinics in the nation in this area. One is based at Emory UMC in Washington, D.C., and the other is at the Baltimore Hispanic Mission. | 
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