On Feb. 7, Wesley Theological Seminary hosted its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. The featured speaker was the Rev. Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta and a leader in the...
The MidAtlantic United Methodist Foundation offers an Advance Financial Academy to churches in the Baltimore-Washington, Peninsula-Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania Conferences. Recently, the 19-member Class of 2022 began implementing projects they created as a result of their training with the...
By Melissa Lauber
At American University in Washington, D.C. students are beginning “to tell a new story” about race and justice. Their witness, being lived out at Kay Spiritual Life Center on campus, took on an added poignance on Feb. 1, the day of the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who...
By Rev. Antoine LoveChairperson, Black Methodists for Church Renewal
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’”
On Feb. 1, in Memphis, Tenn., at the...
By Bishop LaTrelle Easterling
In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and Black History Month, Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula Delaware Conferences, preached the following sermon on Feb. 1, 2023 at...
After prayer and consultation with the Cabinet, Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling has made the following appointments. Unless otherwise noted, all appointments on this page take effect on July 1, 2023.
Posted Sept. 7
Rev. James Cogman, to West Montgomery UMC in Dickerson
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The BWC's Young People's Ministry recently provided a grant of $1,000 to Glen Mar UMC in Ellicott City for their MLK Day of Service. The story below is from this year's event.
By Bruce Leuthold
On Jan. 16, Glen Mar UMC hosted its ninth annual MLK Jr. Day of Service with Ames Memorial...
By Melissa Lauber
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First UMC in Hyattsville, Md.
Gethsemane UMC in Capitol Heights, Md.
Grace UMC in Wilmington, Del.
Middlesex UMC in Carlisle, Pa.
Two years ago, four United Methodist churches embarked on a journey with Wesley Seminary’s Source Collaborative to discuss...
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...