| Well-known coach speaks at church event MT. AIRY About 200 people of all ages heard the testimony of 2002 Student Sports Magazines National Coach of the Year David Carruthers at Calvary UMCs recreational ministry program March 23. The event focused on living and competing as a Christian in todays world. Carruthers, football coach at Urbana High School, shared his commitment to Christ and included an altar call in his message. The community event included two other speakers: Denise Ginsburg of Damascus, founder of the girls basketball camp JCs Court, and Calvary UMC basketball coach Bill Eckard. The church is one of few churches in the area doing recreational outreach ministries. Lucinda Nelson, director of the churchs outreach ministries, is happy that a large number of non-members attended the event. We want them (people in the community) to be drawn into the church some other way, said Nelson. Pastor advocates for health care for all WASHINGTON, D.C. Health care access is a moral imperative, the Rev. Jackson H. Day, a conference ordained elder and an executive of the United  Methodist Board of Church and Society, told members of the House of Representatives at a hearing April 30. Speaking on behalf of the National Council of Churches, he urged the representatives to pass a resolution that would guarantee health care to all Americans, reported Joretta Purdue of the United Methodist News Service. Many religious faiths hold that humanity deserves the sacredness and dignity appropriate to life created by God, Day said. He advocated passage of the Health Care Access Resolution, directing Congress to enact legislation by October 2004 that would provide access to comprehensive health care for all Americans. To learn more, see http://umns.umc.org/02/may/198.htm. Biblical womens experiences good today COLUMBIA More than 90 women and men gathered in the conference center April 13 for Feel the Gentle Breeze, sponsored by the conference Commission on the Status and Role of Women. In addition to hearing keynoter, the Rev. Youtha Hardman-Cromwell, the participants chose two of three workshops.  As an advocate for victims of domestic violence, the Rev. Susan Hallager, pastor of Crosswalk, a new church start, addressed a full classroom on Binding up the Brokenhearted.
Nan McCurdy, a conference missionary to Nicaragua led a workshop on Gender and Justice: We Can Be Martha, Mary or Both. Judy Worthington, director of Congregational Health Partnership at Inova Health System, in the Arlington District of Virginia Conference, taught a workshop on Ruth and Naomi: Every Womans Journey through Life. | 
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