January 8, 2015 Dear Friends: As of Jan. 7, the churches of the Baltimore-Washington Conference were $562,000 or 3.7 percent below the forecast for what is needed in apportionments. The books for 2014 close Jan. 13. Any church that hasn't contributed their full portion of connectional giving...
Submitting Annual Conference Resolutions Resolutions to be considered by the members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference at the May session are due to the Conference Secretary, the Rev. Mary Jo Sims, ( ) by Jan. 15. Each resolution must address only one topic using the format found on the...
114th Congress has 43 United Methodists By Albert J. Menendez Jan. 5, 2015 | WASHINGTON (UMNS) There are 43 United Methodists serving in the 114th Congress, a decline of two from the 113th Congress. In the Senate, United Methodists increased from nine to 10, while the denomination's presence...
Nettie Wright, 97, wife of the late Rev. Harold B. Wright, died Jan. 4, 2015, in Hagerstown. The Rev. Ken Dunnington officiated at a memorial service Jan. 24, at Reisterstown UMC Nettie Lawson Wright was born Sept. 16, 1917, in Washington, D.C., to the late Irving E. and Alice V. Orem Lawson...
Advent birth gives this parsonage family a story to tell By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff It is a Christmas he will always remember. In the moments surrounding his daughter’s birth, Pastor Kyle Durbin was running across the church yard. He could hear his congregation singing...
By Melissa Lauber & Evelyn Rivera Special to UMConnection “Bienvenido! ” Welcome.” It’s a phrase Bishop Marcus Matthews and leaders of the Baltimore-Washington Conference hope United Methodists will be learning in the coming year. “If we are to be the...
Seeking just a resolution at the start of 2015 By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff Happy 2015! Here’s hoping it’s better and brighter than 2014, to which, I might add, I bid a fond adieu. Last year was stressful, was it not? From racial tensions erupting after incidents in...
Heavy hearts sing an all too familiar song of lament By Michael Parker* “Southern trees bear strange fruit; blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” These are the opening words of the...
2014 YEAR IN REVIEW In the Year of Our Lord, 2014, we learned several things, including these new words: “photobomb” (to interrupt another person’s picture by inserting yourself in it); “overshare” (as in giving out too much information); and “bashtag&rdquo...
Annual Conference resolutions due Jan. 15 By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Resolutions to be considered by the members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference at the May session are due to the Conference Secretary, the Rev. Mary Jo Sims, ( ) by Jan. 15. Each resolution must address only...
