A Message from the Revs. Amy P. McCullough and Lemuel Dominguez Lead Pastor and Associate Pastor, Grace United Methodist Church Grace UMC in Baltimore has been a Reconciling Church since 2010 and since 2019 a flag has hung from the exterior front wall of our sanctuary as a sign...
By: Bonnie McCubbinPhotos by: Bonnie McCubbin & Alison Burdett For two non-consecutive days, June 26 and June 28, 2023 the ground of Old Otterbein United Methodist Church, Baltimore, MD, was scraped back, layer by layer, to reveal what time has hidden. This archeological dig, under...
By Melissa Lauber If you take a map and draw a 40-mile circle around Frostburg UMC, you will discover a landscape of hope, created over the past 47 years by United Methodist and other youth who have spent weeks during their summer break restoring or repairing hundreds of homes. CAMP HOPE...
By Kathy Mellott Emory Grove, located in Glyndon, Maryland, has been a center for summer worship for 156 years. In 1973, a cottage owner of Emory Grove, Rev. George Lovell, realized that there was no worship mid-week. He felt that going from Sunday to Sunday without praising God was unacceptable...
Paul J. Eichelberger has been voted in as the new Treasurer/Director of Administrative Services for the Peninsula-Delaware Conference when William Westbrook retires this summer, after 29 years in that position. Eichelberger currently serves as the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the...
On June 8, vandals broke a glass window with a brick at Fowler UMC in Annapolis and came through the basement. “You would think they were coming to steal, but they just came to destroy,” said the Rev. Jerome Jones. “They destroyed all the computers, threw down the big Methodist...
It was 137 years ago when two Methodists from the racially segregated Delaware Conference had the idea to bring higher education to African Americans in Somerset County, Md. With nine students and two educators, they started a school that grew into the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore...
Give me Jesus. Give me Jesus. You may have all this world, give me Jesus. The Holy Spirit was moving as the congregation sang “Give me Jesus,” during the Ordination Service on June 3, 2023 during the 239th Session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Baltimore.
A friendly group of approximately 75 attendees gathered after the disaffiliation vote for the annual BWARM/MFSA dinner on Thursday, June 1. The mood was subdued after the heaviness of the afternoon voting, but it soon shifted as the program began.
By Bonnie McCubbin “For all the saints, who from their labors rest,” rung out to open the annual Memorial Service, in the Key Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel in Baltimore on Thursday, June 1 at 7 p.m., to honor clergy, clergy spouses, and lay members to Annual Conference, as well as...
