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Clergy get big payoff at new Financial Leadership Academy By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Money has a deep and profound effect on how pastors do the work Christ calls them to do, the Rev. Phil Jamieson told the 62 clergy embarking on a two-year learning experience through the Financial...

UMs in Washington share faith agenda with the new mayor By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff On Jan. 2, Muriel Bowser took the oath of office and became the second woman to serve as mayor of Washington, D.C. Within days of her inauguration, Bowser spent time with pastors and laity of the...

Sharp Street UMC serves as home to unfolding black history By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff As the United States commemorates Black History Month in February, people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference do not have far to look to find significant reminders of African-American history...

Faith traditions unite at Communion table By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff The week of Christian Unity became real in tangible and spiritual ways on Jan. 25, at the National Cathedral in Washington,D.C., when Christ set the banquet table and the Rev. Canon Gina Campbell served Communion...

BWC celebrates unprecedented giving Dear Friends: When I look at the apportionment payments made by the churches of the Baltimore-Washington Conference in 2014, I’m reminded of the saying, “We can give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” With a 90.75 percent...

Pastor Gilbert O’Loan Lockwood, 89. of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., a retired Local Pastor, died Jan. 29, 2015, at Autumn Acres in Berkeley Springs. The Revs. G. Edward Grove and Terri Cofiell officiated at a funeral service Feb. 7, 2015, at the Brown Funeral Home. A Memorial Service was held...

Zelah Hall Conley, 98, the wife of the late Rev. Paul Conley, died Jan. 15, 2015, at Asbury Methodist Village. A funeral service was held Jan. 22 at the DeVol Funeral Home. Zelah Hall and Paul Conley married in 1936 and had 57 years together before his death in 1993. The marriage went through a...

The Rev. Elizabeth Pate (Smith) Carlson, 88, a resident of Somerford House in Hagerstown, died Jan. 15, 2015. A memorial service was held Jan. 31 at the Montessori Academy of Chambersburg, Pa. Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery. Born March 3, 1926, in Montezuma, Ga., she was the...

Rev. William E. Polk Jr. The Rev. William E. Polk, Jr., 89, a retired Elder, died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. A funeral service was held Jan. 17, at Grace UMC in Baltimore. The Rev. Amy McCullough officiated and the Revs. Emora Brannan and James McSavaney participated. Polk was was retired from...