By Erik Alsgaard “The things that happen at camp just don’t happen anywhere else.” That’s Chris Schlieckert, director of Camp Manidokan since 2007. He stood in the dining hall June 14 while outside 30 staffers from the Baltimore-Washington Conference &mdash...
For the second year in a row, the Baltimore-Washington Conference unanimously adopted a budget. Without debate on the floor nor amendment, conference members approved a $17.3 million ministry spending plan for 2015. The Rev. Ann Laprade, chair of the Conference Council on Finance and...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Bishop Marcus Matthews says thank you. All the time. I was a little surprised and flustered when he asked me to deliver the thank you’s on Saturday morning at annual conference. But I shouldn’t have been. There’s rarely a meeting or...
By Linda Worthington UMConnection Staff The Africa University choir sang, drummed and danced the people in to Bible study each morning of annual conference to listen with hearts and minds to James “Jim” Salley bring new understanding to the Scripture of the Good Samaritan, Luke...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Opting for additional study, Baltimore-Washington Conference members affirmed the dangers of fossil fuels but postponed a response to companies using them. The Rev. Jackson Day proposed the conference establish a task force to explore the impact of...
By Linda Worthington UMConnection Staff At the “Service of the Saints,” May 30, Bishop Joseph Yeakel, retired, called to worship the families and friends of those clergy, clergy spouses and lay members who have died since the last annual conference. During the service he...
By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff For the second year in a row, the Baltimore-Washington Conference unanimously adopted a budget. Without debate on the floor nor amendment, conference members approved a $17.3 million ministry spending plan for 2015. The Rev. Ann Laprade, chair of the...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff A mid the enthusiasm of student partners from Connexions in Baltimore speaking out and dancing for justice, the spoken word poetry of the Rev. Wanda Duckett, vignette reports on a variety of ministries, and the commissioning of Richmond Williams, who will...
By Linda Worthington UMConnection Staff In the celebration, ceremony and solemnity of the Ordination and Commissioning Service, family and friends filled the ballroom of the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott Hotel May 31 for the ordination of their loved ones, 19 in all, including 10...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff On May 30, 855 members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference gathered in small groups in the ballroom at the Waterfront Marriott Hotel to participate in holy conferencing as they attempted to discern God’s will on issues of human sexuality...
