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2019 Session to reimagine young people's ministry

Posted by Melissa Lauber on Jan 10, 2019

“We are One: United to Love,” will be the theme of the 235th session of Baltimore-Washington Conference when it gathers Wednesday, May 29, through Saturday, June 1, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel.

Guidelines announced for electing delegates

Posted by Melissa Lauber on Jan 10, 2019

This winter, clergy and lay people are invited to a season of discernment to assess if they wish to serve as delegates to the 2020 General Conference of The United Methodist Church and the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference.

In a dramatically new way of pursuing God’s kingdom, the Baltimore-Washington Conference has issued its inaugural batch of $39,600 in Missional Innovation Grants to 10 recipients.

This year marks the 90th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, and the 51st year after his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. As was the case in 1968, the nation and world today are wrought with social, economic, political and religious upheaval. Over the past...

'Resurgence' offers practical hope to churches

Posted by Melissa Lauber on Jan 10, 2019

There’s a verse in Deuteronomy 2:3 where the Israelites have been wandering in the wilderness, seeking to move into the Promised Land. God eventually tells them: “You have been going around in circles in these hills long enough. Head north.”

About two weeks before Christmas, Christie Latona, Director of Connectional Ministries for the Baltimore-Washington Conference, Emma Escobar, Coordinator of Hispanic/Latino Ministries for the BWC, and Julie Wilson, Chair of the BWC's Immigration Task Force, were south of San Diego, Calif., at...

When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the...

The Federal Government's partial shutdown is being felt throughout the country and especially in the BWC. Here's how some churches are starting to respond.

The Rev. Ernest “Ernie” Thayil, 87, an ordained Elder, died Jan. 4, 2019, at Frederick Memorial Hospital after suffering a stroke a week earlier. At the time he was serving in retirement at Bethesda UMC in Sykesville. A Celebration of Life service will be held in May.Ernie William...