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By Christie Hoffman*Special to the UMConnection
Youth workers and ministry leaders listen to Daniel Barnett during a time of worship at the recent training event and retreat, held Wesley Freedom UMC in Sykesville. Photo by Christie Hoffman.
Youth workers from across the Baltimore-Washington...
By Linda WorthingtonUMConnection Staff
“Legacy, legacy, legacy,” was the operative word-of-the-day when the Baltimore-Washington Conference United Methodist Women gathered at the Mission Center March 25 to celebrate its 150-year anniversary.
“We pray, study and march,&rdquo...
By Erik Alsgaard
Immigration makes headlines in the United States and around the world. With more than 25.9 million refugees and asylum seekers in the world in 2017, how and if people cross borders and for what reasons have become a political football.
To help untangle some of the mess that is...
By United Methodist News Service correspondentsMarch 19, 2019 | CHIMANIMANI-CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe (UMNS)
Cyclone Idai left a path of destruction in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, killing at least 180 people and damaging United Methodist schools, churches, hospitals and homes.
The cyclone made...
Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling today called for prayers for the people of Mozambique and Zimbabwe following a devastating cyclone.
Anyone can have a gambling problem and it is often clergy or lay ministers who are on the "front line" of dealing with the problems. Erik Alsgaard looks at how special training is available to help.
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her...
Journeys together are wonderful ways to build community and learn more about who we are in light of the diversity that is incumbent in community. Since 2006, I have had the privilege of leading groups of scholars from Wesley Theological Seminary and St. Mary’s Seminary and University in...
The Baltimore-Washington Conference is the most diverse conference in United Methodism, in terms of race, gender, age, geography, and theology.
After countless years and prayers, the Beacon Center at Emory UMC in Washington, D.C., opened March 13 with speeches, dignitaries, a ribbon cutting, hugs and tears. Erik Alsgaard has the story.