The Rev. James K. McCants, 83, a retired pastor serving at Sharp Street UMC in Baltimore, died Oct. 18. A family funeral was held in South Carolina Oct. 24, and a memorial service was held at Sharp Street UMC Nov. 2. Bishops John R. Schol and Forrest Stith participated. McCants came into the...
BELTSVILLE - When members of Emmanuel UMC launched an English as a Second Language (ESL) program in September, they did not anticipate the overwhelming response they would receive from the immigrant community. Fifty-four students registered to take the once-a-week English classes. 'This big...
ANNAPOLIS - Lay members of United Methodist churches are instrumental in founding and maintaining the Banneker-Douglass Museum, housed in the old Mt. Moriah AME church building on Franklin Street in Annapolis. St. Mark UMC's Betty Mack is one of them. The museum, she says, 'springs from the...
HAGERSTOWN - When John Wesley UMC went to the Gulf Coast to do Katrina relief the week of Oct. 8-12, four United Methodist pastors made the trip. The church that hosted them has a special connection to the Baltimore-Washington Conference. It was given the organ and furniture from the Canton UMC...
COLUMBIA - Martha Knight, conference treasurer, was elected to the Executive Committee of the National Association of Annual Conference Treasurers, and will represent the North East Jurisdiction on the leadership team. NEW YORK - Bishop Felton E. May, retired, was named as interim general...
It was just one of those days. There were more e-mails than there was time to answer them; the voice mail was filled with complaints and frustrations; and tension and dissonance were present at meetings throughout the day. The day was a hard day to pray during, and a harder...
For United Methodists, church meetings are never just meetings. Rather, when United Methodists gather, we become church, not by the things that each of us brings, but by the miracle of grace that God works among us through the raw materials of our words, our actions, our music, our prayers, our...
By Elliott WrightUnited Methodist News Service The Drew University Theological School in Madison, N.J., will be the new home base for Communities of Shalom, a United Methodist program that engages congregations and communities in working together for community development, peace, and...
ABERDEEN - Grace UMC's new Youth Praise Band, Elypsis, got its start at a community Easter egg hunt in an Aberdeen park. The band has grown musically as they play at occasional worship services and coffee houses and it is making a video to play at ROCK 2008. The band members write much of the...
OXON HILL - St. Paul UMC, thought to be the oldest African-American congregation in the conference, celebrated its 216th anniversary with a week of activities on the theme 'Moving Forward with Christ.' The celebration ended with a revival and 'Everybody's Birthday Party,' with tables laden with...
