Members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference considered three resolutions on the first day of the Annual Conference session – one about a local church, one about the Annual Conference, and one about the Global Church. Salem Baltimore Hispanic UMC named a mission church In a vote of 523...
The systems that congregational leaders put into place today will either help youth grow in faith to transform the world or nudge them to step away from the church and their faith, Chris Wilterdink, of Discipleship Ministries, told the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference during the...
The ‘deacon heart’ on full display By Rev. Leo Yates, Jr. 2022 is a banner year for Deacons in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. On June 3, at Annual Conference, three Deacons will be ordained in full connection and three people will...
By Melissa Lauber On May 26 at 12:32 p.m., at the exact time a gunman broke into an elementary school in Uvalde, Teas, two days earlier, the largest bell at the National Cathedral tolled 32 times – once for each of the victims of the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo and Robb...
By Melissa Lauber With praise music blasting across an empty lot and down blocks of boarded-up row houses in Baltimore, United Methodists gathered on May 25 with civic and government leaders to compare dreams. The leaders of Ames UMC and the Resurrection Sandtown Project were still a little...
By Rev. Janet CraswellNational United Methodist Church Once again, our hearts are broken by gun violence: first a racist attack in Buffalo, New York, and then a horrific attack on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Hopefully the littlest children will be unaware of events, but...
After receiving the devastating news of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, I needed to take a breath. I took some time for tears, I took a moment for anger, I took a while for reflection. But on this day after the school shooting, the sadness, rage, and so many questions linger. I...
Last week our country faced a particularly sobering moment when the number of CoVID-19-related deaths in the United States reached one million. Globally, the number of deaths is estimated at 15 million. The grief that persists among the unknown number of people impacted by the loss of these many...
The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps. -- Proverbs 16:9 When we gather as the Church, we do so to tend to our souls, but when disaster and other crises strike, we are also called upon to help keep one another physically safe. Recent headlines of...
The Judicial Council of The United Methodist Church recently ruled that the Council of Bishops can call jurisdictional conferences to elect and assign new U.S. bishops. The ruling follows the postponement of the General Conference until 2024. However, the Judicial...
