As part of the virtual Laity Session on Nov. 14, members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference spent significant time in learning about tools for engaging in anti-racism work and conversations.
By Melissa Lauber All Saints Day is a time for remembering and honoring the dead. However, this year, the spirit of resurrection crept into a unique service between Dumbarton and Mt. Zion UMCs in Georgetown, whose members gathered in an historic cemetery to address racism and pray for...
By Melissa Lauber Conference Lay Leader Delores Martin and Bishop LaTrelle Easterling gathered with more than 500 participants on Zoom, Nov. 14 to celebrate the special ways that the lay people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference answer Christ’s call to serve as “the...
By Melissa Lauber All Saints Day is a time for remembering and honoring the dead. However, this year, the spirit of resurrection crept into a unique service between Dumbarton and Mt. Zion UMCs in Georgetown, whose members gathered in an historic cemetery to address racism and pray for...
By Melissa Lauber Amid a storm of uncertainty on the day following national elections, Methodists in D.C. gathered for a vigil of justice and unity and to begin addressing pain caused by deep ideological division. “This great experiment called the United States of America is...
Weekly prayers from the bishop and Cabinet.
Churches throughout the BWC are beginning to reflect upon and take action to learn about and address racism in their congregations’ history and in their communities today. The men at Poolesville UMC are seeking to offer humility, love and healing, to their small community. By Link...
By Melissa Lauber How will God use the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference to be vessels of peace, vessels of love, vessels of change? This question sparked lively online engagement as Bishop LaTrelle Easterling met in eight sessions Oct. 26-29 with 331 clergy and 603 lay people. The...
The Baltimore-Washington Conference recently received a grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish its new Catalyst Initiative, an effort designed to empower local churches to thrive in mission and ministry as they seek to transform knowledge into life-changing action.
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” -- 2 Chronicles 7:14 The spiritual discipline of fasting has been a...
