Beloved of God: As The United Methodist Church, we are a people who span multiple continents across the world. Even as we claim a singular rootedness in our Wesleyan theology, we experience and express that theology and our faith in diverse ways. Yet there...
To the Pastors and Laity of the Baltimore-Washington Conference: Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. The Special Session of General Conference held in 2019 created a path for churches to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church. That path is codified in...
By Melissa Lauber A mother, who is a doctor, wanted her young daughter to see the Black History Month art exhibit at Asbury UMC in Washington, D.C. But her daughter was immunocompromised, and attending an event where a lot of people might be present might have put her health at risk. Carol...
The MidAtlantic United Methodist Foundation offers an Advance Financial Academy to churches in the Baltimore-Washington, Peninsula-Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania Conferences. Recently, the 19-member Class of 2022 began implementing projects they created as a result of their training with the...
By Melissa Lauber At American University in Washington, D.C. students are beginning “to tell a new story” about race and justice. Their witness, being lived out at Kay Spiritual Life Center on campus, took on an added poignance on Feb. 1, the day of the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who...
The BWC's Young People's Ministry recently provided a grant of $1,000 to Glen Mar UMC in Ellicott City for their MLK Day of Service. The story below is from this year's event. By Bruce Leuthold On Jan. 16, Glen Mar UMC hosted its ninth annual MLK Jr. Day of Service with Ames Memorial...
By Melissa Lauber See videos from: First UMC in Hyattsville, Md. Gethsemane UMC in Capitol Heights, Md. Grace UMC in Wilmington, Del. Middlesex UMC in Carlisle, Pa. Two years ago, four United Methodist churches embarked on a journey with Wesley Seminary’s Source Collaborative to discuss...
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling and the Cabinets of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Conferences met this week to begin the work of clergy appointments. Recognizing that this is a difficult and extraordinary time that we’re living through, the bishop is sending out...
We celebrate the five recipients of this year’s BWC Young People's Ministry Missional Innovation Grants, which total $25,000. They include: The Four Church Collaborative Youth Program (FCC)as a collaboration between Wards 4,5,6, and 7 represented by Mount Vernon UMC, Petworth UMC...
By Melissa Lauber Amid drastic changes in cultural and religious landscapes, the Church is having to simultaneously serve as hospice nurse and midwife – retiring programs that have become irrelevant to the community and giving birth to new ministries that bring about meaningful...
