Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the...
The Rev. William Waring Ehlers, 95, died Feb. 28, 2019. A funeral service was held March 12 at the Burrier-Queen Funeral Home & Crematory in Winfield. William Waring Ehlers was born Feb.23, 1924, in Baltimore, the son of the late William Charles Ehlers and the late Marian Crumbacker...
Preaching in the opening worship of the 2019 Special Session of the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, Council of Bishops President Bishop Kenneth H. Carter today called on United Methodists to make every effort to maintain unity for the sake of God’s mission as the...
Guest post by the Rev. Laura Blauvelt* General Conference starts tomorrow… I have a grandbaby not quite three years old who lights every corner of my world. It’s the way she runs towards me hollering, “GRANDMA!” and jumps into my arms with squeals that says...
Fred Carney, 89, the husband of the Rev. Vernice Carney, a retired Elder, died Feb. 14, 2019. A Celebration of Life service was held in the Interfaith Chapel at Leisure World Feb. 21. Fred Douglas Carney Sr. was born Oct. 5, 1929, in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, to Jolly Gray Carney and...
As the special session of General Conference prepares to convene in St. Louis, people within the Baltimore-Washington Conference and The United Methodist Church have a number of viewpoints about finding a way forward on the church’s response to homosexuality. Members of the Steering...
As the special session of General Conference prepares to convene in St. Louis, people within the Baltimore-Washington Conference and The United Methodist Church have a number of viewpoints about finding a way forward on the church’s response to homosexuality. Members of the board of...
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling and the Council of Bishops invite every local United Methodist church to use this special prayer in church on Sunday, Feb. 24. We continue to pray for all those at the Special Session of General Conference in St. Louis. Gracious and loving God, who leads, teaches and...
Everybody hears the call of God differently. In the Bible, the child Samuel was awakened by a voice in the night; the apostle Paul was knocked off his horse. In early Methodism, John Wesley’s heart was strangely warmed, and, in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, God is calling teenagers...
Connectional giving in the Baltimore-Washington Conference is strong. In 2018, 83.6 percent, or 521 of the conference’s 623 churches, paid 100 percent of their mission shares and the overall collection rate was 90.6 percent. Speaking at a meeting of the Council on Finance and...
