By Rev. Dr. C. Anthony Hunt Senior Pastor, Epworth Chapel UMC
This year marks the 94th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth in Atlanta, Georgia. A son of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church currently pastored by Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, the first African-American U.S...
By Melissa Lauber
Amid drastic changes in cultural and religious landscapes, the Church is having to simultaneously serve as hospice nurse and midwife – retiring programs that have become irrelevant to the community and giving birth to new ministries that bring about meaningful...
Salem United Methodist Church in Baltimore will be featured on WBAL TV 11 as part of a Spanish Christmas Special, "Tenporada para Celebar" on December 24 at 7 p.m. and 25 at 5 p.m.
The 'thrill of hope' is ours to claim
I greet you in the hope-filled name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. As we move through the expectation of Advent and into the miracle of Christmas, we come together once more as a people of faith.
The birth of our Savior comes every year, whether...
By Neal Christie
This semester the United Campus Ministry at Frostburg University has had a particular calling as it prepares students for the stress of finals and the end of the semester and looks to the relief and promise of peace for Christmas. Like too many college campus ministries across...
By Mittie Quinn
Tracing their existence to a gathering in a cooper’s shop in Georgetown in December 1772, Dumbarton UMC continues to celebrate its Wesleyan Heritage. Like other 250-year-old Methodist churches in the Baltimore-Washington area, that first congregation hosted Francis Asbury...
By Melissa Lauber
If churches are to be truly vital, they must move beyond an attitude of surviving and instead adopt mission, ministry and mindsets geared toward thriving, said the Rev. Jackie Ford. To do that, congregations need to adopt missional action plans that allow them to “take...
600 United Methodist churches in the BWC, located throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the panhandle of West Virginia, will have the opportunity to offer charging stations for electric vehicles.
Charge has been named the preferred provider to evaluate, recommend, and...
November 21, 2022 | A Message from Bishop LaTrelle Easterling
Oh Lord, my God! When I, in awesome wonderConsider all the worlds Thy hands have madeI see the stars, I hear the rolling thunderThy power throughout the universe displayedThen sings my soul, my Savior God to TheeHow great Thou art...
By Melissa Lauber
One of the gifts that youth might offer the church is to “make church fun again,” Bishop LaTrelle Easterling told the young people from the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Conferences who gathered for conversation Nov. 12 at Calvary UMC in Annapolis.
As...