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MAP sets course for church's future
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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...

Frostburg Campus Ministry addresses recent shooting
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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...

Dumbarton UMC: Looking Backward to Live Forward
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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...

Pen-Del churches gather to reimagine and revitalize
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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...

Churches to provide EV charging stations
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  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...

Bishop and youth talk about the future
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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...