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We pray for people with HIV/AIDS and support them by giving to the BWC's Quality of Life Retreats
On this World AIDS Day, we pray that God will open our hearts to the understanding that we are all affected by HIV/AIDS. Within the BWC, an amazing ministry of compassion...
The time for merely keeping the church doors open has passed. Today’s church requires excellence. It demands a passion for learning and addressing new challenges. It needs people to step up to the next level of leadership if the church is to survive and thrive.
The time before a journey begins is often filled with high hopes and creative expectations. It’s a time for vision and daydreams.
As part of the virtual Laity Session on Nov. 14, members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference spent significant time in learning about tools for engaging in anti-racism work and conversations.
By Melissa Lauber
All Saints Day is a time for remembering and honoring the dead. However, this year, the spirit of resurrection crept into a unique service between Dumbarton and Mt. Zion UMCs in Georgetown, whose members gathered in an historic cemetery to address racism and pray for...
By Melissa Lauber
Conference Lay Leader Delores Martin and Bishop LaTrelle Easterling gathered with more than 500 participants on Zoom, Nov. 14 to celebrate the special ways that the lay people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference answer Christ’s call to serve as “the...
By Melissa Lauber
Amid a storm of uncertainty on the day following national elections, Methodists in D.C. gathered for a vigil of justice and unity and to begin addressing pain caused by deep ideological division.
“This great experiment called the United States of America is...
The Baltimore-Washington Conference recently received a grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish its new Catalyst Initiative, an effort designed to empower local churches to thrive in mission and ministry as they seek to transform knowledge into life-changing action.
by Erik Alsgaard
More than 60 lay and clergy leaders in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, who make up the Connectional Table, participated in a virtual session Oct. 3, to continue their work of anti-bias training.
Noting that this work was “our ministry, not additional...
As the nation celebrates Columbus Day on Oct. 12, now recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in a growing number of states and in Washington, D.C., people of faith remember the people who lived on the land when Columbus and other explorers arrived. The General Conference of The...