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BWC adopts 2017 budget of $14.2 million
Posted by Erik Alsgaard on

By a nearly unanimous vote June 2, members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference adopted a $14.2 million apportionment budget for 2017. The budget represents a decrease of 0.8 percent from 2016 and is the fifth consecutive year the apportioned budget has been between $14.1 and $14.3 million...

Diversity of BWC ministries highlighted
Posted by Melissa Lauber on

“How great is our God?” asked Young Adult Council Chair Raimon Jackson as he sang to open the Connectional Ministries report at Annual Conference June 2. Eleven-year-old Nora Meeks, of Silver Spring UMC, responded with her witness of traveling on her first mission trip with the BWC to...

Moore-Koikoi endorsed as episcopal candidate
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The Rev. Cynthia Moore-Koikoi, superintendent of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, has been endorsed as a candidate for bishop by the BWC’s delegation to the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference. She is scheduled to be introduced to the members of the Annual Conference today for a vote to make...

Statement from Foundry UMC
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Issued June 1, 2016 Today during the Clergy Executive Session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church, clergy did not accept the recommendation of the Board of Ordained Ministry to approve T.C. Morrow for provisional membership as a deacon. We are deeply saddened...