By Rev. Dr. Lillian C. SmithPastor, Cheverly UMC in Cheverly, Maryland What if our current efforts for church revitalization are missing something? What if some of what we have focused our attention on to effect congregational revitalization and vitality needs to be preceded and...
By Melissa Lauber Jesus stood boldly in the public square and preached for justice, peace and equity. United Methodists should do no less, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling told a group gathered on Nov. 18 at the BWC Mission Center and online to explore legislative advocacy. “People of faith are...
By: Charlie Moore (ZIM VIM Team Leader) Community United Methodist Church, Crofton, MD I returned home on October 23rd from my second trip to Zimbabwe in the prior 6 weeks. A lot of my time during these visits was spent identifying potential future projects for our ZIM VIM Team. Carol was...
By Rev. Dr. Leo Yates, Jr. Picture it: hands are signing, longtime friends are hugging, and greetings are shared by Deaf and hard-of-hearing United Methodists who traveled to Dallas, TX to attend the conference hosted by the United Methodist Congress of the Deaf (UMCD), a Deaf caucus of The...
By Melissa Lauber“ … These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,” read the Rev. Bill Brown, with hushed anticipation from Acts 17:6 to a group of people gathered Nov. 4 at the Baltimore-Washington Conference Mission Center. He was hoping a...
A community steel drum group had lost their rehearsal space, a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Pastor Lucinda “Cindy” Kent offered the group a solution: use her congregation’s downstairs fellowship hall. “I told them, ‘I don't want to be your landlord. I...
In a message to the laity and clergy of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling invites area United Methodists to imagine, dream and vision a new way forward. She and a task force of conference leaders are proposing a restructuring of the Conference. The change in...
<h6class='meta'></h6class='meta'> The following are guidelines and a format for submitting a resolution to be considered by the members of the 2024 Annual Session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, to be held May 29-31 in Baltimore. The resolution should address a...
Bishop William Boyd Grove, a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, died Oct. 27. He served as an episcopal leader in the Northeastern Jurisdiction from 1980 to 1996. Upon learning of his death, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling noted that she had the joy and privilege of being in a covenant...
By Melissa Lauber Lucinda “Cindy” Kent dwells in possibility. This fall, she starts her new position as the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Conferences’ Property with Purpose Coordinator, a newly created position to assist churches in discovering new ways to...
