PASADENA - When Magothy UMC no longer needed its parsonage, they found a way to make it serve the community and become a model for other homes. The Anne Arundel County Department of Social Services leased the three-bedroom house from the church and with volunteer labor turned it into Harmony...
DAVIDSONVILLE - Davidsonville UMC opened its new preschool facilities in August. Crossroads Child Care Center is open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, year-round. It currently enrolls 24 preschoolers and offers a program for after-school care for elementary-age...
By JEFF ODOMSpecial to the UMConnection Marge and I were asked to represent the Baltimore-Washington Conference and our bishop at a Hurricane Katrina Thank You Celebration in New Orleans Sept. 6-7. The meeting was hosted by the three Gulf Coast Annual Conferences that were most affected...
The United Methodist Commission on Religion and Race joins United Methodists and other people of faith in calling for equal justice and healing from the racial crisis in Jena, La., where six African-American teenagers face charges for allegedly beating a white youth at school. And yet, we know...
As clergy, family, friends and district officials gathered in the sanctuary of Woodside UMC to install the Rev. Vivian McCarthy as the Washington West District superintendent, they were greeted with the energetic music of Bethesda UMC's Common Ground, the Strings of Damascus UMC, and the...
The Rev. Edgardo Rivera keeps a photo in his Bible. It's of himself - at age 2 in the small town of Vieques, Puerto Rico. As a boy, Rivera would sit on his front porch by the sea and stare out at the horizon.As a new Adventure Gbwc_superusere in the Baltimore and Washington regions, Rivera still...
By Elliott Wright Bishop Felton E. May (retired) will serve as interim general secretary of The United Methodist Church's international mission agency, the General Board of Global Ministries. Directors of the board, meeting in Stamford, elected the bishop after they confirmed a...
COLUMBIA - The Rev. Bob Paulen, retired, was a big winner at the World Masters Championships, sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Association, held in Riccione, Italy, Sept. 3-15. Paulen participated in the 70-74 age group. In the international event, he was one of the 4x400 relay team which won the...
SILVER SPRING - Michael Virts, a member of the conference Native American Ministries (CONAM) and a Cherokee, recently led a group of volunteers on a mission to Navaho Land in Arizona. The idea for a mission group to a Native American community came up at one of CONAM's prayer breakfasts, held...
United Methodists are being called to take action to oppose a proposal to bring slot machines to Maryland. On Oct. 29, in a special legislative session, state lawmakers will consider a proposal by Gov. Martin O'Malley to bring almost 10,000 state-operated slot machines to Maryland to finance...
