Bishop LaTrelle Easterling and the Cabinets of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Conferences met this week to begin the work of clergy appointments. Recognizing that this is a difficult and extraordinary time that we’re living through, the bishop is sending out...
We celebrate the five recipients of this year’s BWC Young People's Ministry Missional Innovation Grants, which total $25,000. They include: The Four Church Collaborative Youth Program (FCC)as a collaboration between Wards 4,5,6, and 7 represented by Mount Vernon UMC, Petworth UMC...
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...
