By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Small churches don’t have to do small ministries. At Douglas UMC, just six years ago, the building was in grave disrepair and the 19 members could barely keep the doors open. Today, after creating a number of partnerships, including an innovative...
By Erik Alsgaard & Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff As the 2014 Maryland General Assembly session begins its final few weeks, Bishop Marcus Matthews and other Baltimore-Washington Conference leaders have been making their voices heard and presence felt in Annapolis. The bishop, along...
The theme of the 230th session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference is “Building Bridges: Be Love.” The logo features a bridge from every region in the Conference. From the Western Region, comprised of the Cumberland-Hagerstown and Frederick Districts, is the Burnside Bridge at...
By Andy Thornton Director of Retreat and Camping Ministry With an innovative, new fundraiser, the simple act of cleaning out your closet can send a child to summer camp. Andy Thornton, the director of the Baltimore Washington Conference’s Retreat and Camping Ministry, encourages every...
By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff The Rev. Brett Pinder has the coolest office in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. Sure, Bishop Marcus Matthews has the big corner suite at the Conference Mission Center, and there are offices throughout the Conference with views of lakes, rivers...
By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff Nearly 100 lay and clergy leaders from throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference came together as the Connectional Table on Saturday, Feb. 22, to help guide the ministry and mission of the conference. The main task for the group at this meeting was...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff You are the one. We are the ones that can make a difference in this part of God’s world, Bishop Marcus Matthews is telling the clergy and laity of the Baltimore-Washington Conference as he joins in conversation with them at district meetings over...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Too many United Methodists today still love money more than Jesus. That’s one of the primary reasons they give, on average, only 1 percent of their income to the church. But churches can change that, said giving guru Clif Christopher. The...
March 5, 2014 Friends: Abraham Lincoln once told a story during the Lenten season: “It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the...
Lois Josephine Yeakel, 86, the wife of retired Bishop Joseph H. Yeakel. died March 5, 2014, at Colestock Nursing Home, Quincy Village, in Waynesboro, Pa., following a long illness. She and Bishop Yeakel were married 65 years. A service of Faith and Memories was held at Otterbein UMC in...
