Working with migrants has taught Bishop Felipe Ruiz Aguilar humility. It’s also taught him things he never wanted to know. For example, he said, Mexican mothers putting their teenage daughters on “The Beast,” a train that will take them through Mexico to the US border. The...
Immigration policies stir up people's opinions and for many have become an issue of faith. Recently, Emma Escobar, the BWC's coordinator of Latino Ministries, led a group of United Methodists on a Border Immersion experience. Melissa Lauber sends postcards home to the people of the...
Opening worship at the 2019 Leadership Institute at the Church of the Resurrection near Kansas City featured a full orchestra and mass choir. Photo by Erik Alsgaard. The stained-glass window in the new sanctuary at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, is massive. At 35-feet high...
The Rev. Mike Bennett shares some thoughts on how to find fun hiding places in the new Rehoboth UMC during the children’s sermon on Oct. 6. Rehoboth UMC moved into its new $6.5 million building that Sunday. Photo by Melissa Lauber. We all know that time travel is purely science...
Foundry United Methodist Church has gained renown as a place where U.S. leaders, including Congress members and presidents, come to worship.However, the prominent Washington congregation has another side to its 205-year history — a source not of reminiscence but of repentance. In...
When is a newspaper vending machine not a newspaper vending machine? When it’s transformed into a Blessing Box. Nathan Payton, co-director of children’s ministry at Calvary UMC in Martinsburg with his wife, Chelsea, came up with the ministry as a way of meeting the needs of...
If the mission of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world – and it is – then how, exactly, do you do that? The Rev. Quincy Brown, superintendent of the Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District of the North Georgia Conference, has one possible...
Brent Bayes, Marketing and Sales Director at Asbury Methodist Village, left, and the Rev. Malcolm Frazier, Director of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Asbury, share a vast array of activities at the cite, founded in 1926. "Anticipate more” is the slogan of Asbury Methodist Village in...
In the Baltimore-Washington Conference, new ministries aren’t just thinking outside the box; they’re building new boxes. Erik Alsgaard looks at 'Coop's Soups.'
In a call to the church to resist the current politics of fear and hate, the Rev. David McAllister-Wilson, president of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, said that “the essence of leadership is either to invoke the ‘better angels’ of our nature or let loose the ‘killer angels’.”
