By Melissa Lauber At Salem Hispanic UMC in east Baltimore, Pastor Cassandra “Cassy” Nuñez dreams out loud. Her dreams aren’t bound by the sanctuary. They spill out into the neighborhood where she spends most of her waking hours pastoring to anyone in need of God’s...
By Neal Christie May 1 is Native American Ministries Sunday - Learn more. Since 1989, United Methodist congregations have observed the third Sunday after Easter as Native American Ministries Sunday — May 1 this year. The purpose is to elevate and support the...
The Gospel for this Easter morning as recorded in John opens with Mary Magdalene arriving to find the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. Not completely grasping what has transpired, she runs to tell the other disciples what she has seen and what it might mean for their beloved Teacher. As the...
By Rev. Charles Harrell Since the outbreak of hostilities in late February, the In Mission Together -- Eurasia Committee (IMTEC) in the Baltimore-Washington Conference has been working hard on your behalf, both to provide relief assistance to our Ukrainian brothers and sisters, and to continue...
On a cold, snowy Saturday in March, an intrepid group of 17 United Methodist Men and their spouses from Severna Park United Methodist Church In Severna Park set out for a mini-pilgrimage in Baltimore. Ready and excited to explore the roots of denominational history, the pilgrims arrived at Old...
The history of Mt. Zion UMC, the area’s oldest African American congregation, will be part of a new immersive musical theatre experience that premieres April 16 on Washington D.C.’s Emancipation Day. Produced by New Music-Theater, the production, “Voices of Zion,” ...
By Ella P. Curry, PhD, MTS, RNFor the BWC-PenDel CoVID-19 Re-entry Team Prologue This is a particularly challenging time for many of us. Attitudes and approaches to the CoVID-19 pandemic are shifting. Confusion and uncertainty accompany mixed messages and sometimes contradictory...
By Melissa Lauber Eleven congregations in the Baltimore-Washington Conference have been working as pioneers during the last year, blazing new understandings of what the church might look like in the future. They made up the pilot wave of the Catalyst Initiative, a process of...
By Melissa Lauber For some church leaders, success is about size, increasing metrics and preaching amid all the spiritual bells and whistles to a mega-congregation. But even though she is new to the ministry, Pastor YouJung Jung, of the Prospect/Marvin Chapel Charge in Mt. Airy, has...
O for a heart to praise my God, a heart from sin set free, a heart that always feels thy blood so freely shed for me.A heart in every thought renewed and full of love divine, perfect and right and pure and good, a copy, Lord, of thine.-- from "O For a Heart to Praise My God," United...
