by cbaker | Jun 7, 2018 | Pastor's Pondering, Updates
Last week the Baltimore Washington Conference of the UMC met in Baltimore for its annual session of business, worship and “holy conferencing.” They are more than 625 churches in Maryland, the District of Columbia and two counties in West Virginia that make up the...
by cbaker | May 30, 2018 | Pastor's Pondering
May 28 The United Methodist Church was born just over 50 years ago on April 23, 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren (E.U.B.) Church and The Methodist Church united to form the new denomination. In the midst of a nation divided over the Vietnam War, the civil...
by cbaker | May 22, 2018 | Pastor's Pondering
New Sermon Series: Blessed Are the Peacemakers “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” (Matthew 5: 9) I don’t know about you, but reading the newspaper, checking social media or listening to the news on the radio...
by cbaker | May 16, 2018 | Pastor's Pondering
Pastor Ponderings At the last General Conference, held in 2016, the United Methodist Church as a whole was headed towards a messy division over the matter of human sexuality. The General Conference was deeply divided over how to respond to inclusion of LGTBQ persons...
by allsaints | Jan 30, 2018 | Pastor's Pondering
The Cyprus Friendship Program (CFP) is an all-volunteer, people-to-people, program focused on developing trust and understanding through relationships between Turkish and Greek-speaking residents of Cyprus. In a land deeply divided by politics and culture, CFP works...
by allsaints | Jan 23, 2018 | Pastor's Pondering
Pastor Ponderings The Trustees have started a renovation project on the ladies’ restroom on the main level. The pick tile and flowered wallpaper have been removed and permanently retired. After the dust settles and the caulk dries, there will be a new, fresh...
