Washington Region

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Discipleship Academy – Last few days to register for the Central Maryland District classes
Lay Speaking and classes on church leadership are being offered on April 9 and 16 at the Conference Center. Detailed information can be found on http://www.bwcumc.org/microsites/g/discipleship-academy. Registration is online. Due to space and food constraints, we will not allow walk-in registrations on the day of the event.

Registration closes on March 26 for the April 9 and 16 classes in the Central Maryland District. Please be sure to register on Gateway as soon as you can. Please share this information with your congregation!

Funding Conference registration deadline extended through Thursday; Funding Resource preorder discounts end Saturday.
The registration deadline for the Lewis Center’s Funding Your Ministry in Changing Times event this Saturday in Washington, DC, has been extended through Thursday. If any of your church leaders are planning to attend but have not yet registered, please let them know they may register online or by phone through March 24 at http://www.churchleadership.com/Resources/FCV11/FCV11event.html. On-site registration is also available the day of the event, but attendees who register beforehand will save time and have better selection of conference workshops.
Also, preorder discounts for the Lewis Center’s Funding DVD/CD Resources end Saturday. These Resources include video recordings of plenary presentations from Funding Conferences as well as workshop PowerPoint presentations, templates, handouts, and other resources which are useful in congregational settings. To save up to $45 over regular prices, please click to order today: http://www.churchleadership.com/Resources/FCV11/FCVresources.asp.
For more information about the Funding Conference and Resources, please email Ann Michel, Lewis Center Associate Director, at amichel@wesleyseminary.edu or call (202) 885-8757.

PASTOR’S FORUM – EMERGENCY APPEAL TO HELP WOMEN VETERANS
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 10 AM
Douglas Memorial United Methodist Church
800 11th Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20002
202-397-1562

The Pastor’s Forum is sponsored by the Urban Connection of Greater Washington, a group of 13 United Methodist Churches, who have opened their doors to service meet the needs by providing essential services and programs. We are asking for your support. Many women Veterans experience mental and physical trauma during their deployment or military service. The number of homeless women is increasing and a great number are unable to find employment post deployment, as a result, they are losing their children.

Currently, there are 13 Women Veterans Resource Center satellites in the Washington area offering a variety of services for women Veterans. We are asking churches of all denominations to join in this ministry of serving women Veterans and their families by becoming a satellite.

The Women Veterans Resource Center satellites allow us to minister to these women Veterans with counseling, food, career clothing closet, job readiness skills, housing, drama therapy, computer services and a host of other services.

The Center for Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnership, the Mayor’s Executive Office of Veterans Affairs, the Center for Minority Veterans, the Veteran History Project and other Veteran Agencies are working collaboratively with us to provide information on services available to our women Veterans, and how to access these resources. Our goal is to have you, our churches adequately informed so that you churches can pick up a part of the responsibility to help our women Veterans and their families.
STAND WITH US......

......We are called of God to serve the least, last and the lost.....

Prayer Requests (Due to an issue with Google Blogspot – it won’t let me update the prayer listing without crashing the program. Until this is resolved, the prayer requests will be listed in the regular section of the blog.)
Please pray for the following:
Mrs. Amity Monroe (wife of Art Monroe – pastor at the Morgan Chapel/Mt Olive Charge in Woodbine) has been found to have two bad discs in her neck and will have fusion surgery on Friday. Prayers are needed for a successful surgery and recovery. Well wishes can be sent to amonroejr@hotmail.com.

Mrs. Martha Ann Bishop (wife of James Bishop – pastor at Goshen UMC) had both knees replaced about 2 weeks go. Well wishes can be sent to jabmab1@comcast.net.

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Important Dates

November 1 & 2 & 3, 2011 - Discipler Groups http://www.bwcumc.org/content/discipler-group-roster
November 15, 2011 9:30 a.m.- Discipler Group Make-Up Session, Conference Mission Center
November 15, 2011 - Visioning 2020 with Bishop Schol http://www.bwcumc.org/events/visioning2020
November 29 & 30, 2011 9-11 a.m. & 1-3 p.m. : Gateway Training on Statistical Reports - Conference Mission Center
December 1, 2011 - Evaluations Due
December 1 & 6 & 7, 2011 - Discipler Groups http://www.bwcumc.org/content/discipler-group-roster
December 20, 2011 9:30 a.m. - Discipler Group Make-Up Session, Conference Mission Center http://www.bwcumc.org/content/discipler-group-roster
January 28, 2012 - Washington Region Leadership Day - Conference Mission Center
April 19, 2012 9-12:30 - Pastor Transition Workshop - Conference Mission Center
April 21, 2012 - Prodigal Worship, Queens Chapel UMC, Beltsville, MD
May 12, 2012 9-12:30 Washington Region Transition Workshop for Pastors/SPRC, Conference Mission Center
May 30 - June 1, 2012 - Annual Conference - Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore

Did you know?

If you have questions about taxes, W-2 forms and I-9's, the best place to go to have those questions answered is the GCFA website. www.gcfa.org/ls_CTP/html We suggest you access the information from GCFA, then contact accounting professionals for any additional information.

It is important that you update your leadership in Gateway, especially for Annual Conference. All new leaders should be added to your church. To do this, log into Gateway and click on Committee Overview. Then click on Committee Participation and Update. Click on Local Church Leadership Committee. For more information abut make changes/updates, go to www.bwcumc.org/content/gateway-resources and click on the Introduction to Gateway Manual.

The current address of the Conference Mission Center does not always show up on GPS or MapQuest. We suggest you use the address for Maggie Moo's Ice Cream which is 8170 Maple Lawn Boulevard, Fulton, MD 20759. The Conference Mission Center is located in the parking lot behind Maggie Moo's.

If you send mail to our old address on Gateway Drive in Columbia, it will be returned to you. Please be mindful of our new address when sending timely information.

Your guide and district superintendent (and your RA) enjoy reading your newsletters. If you have them electronically, please feel free to pass them on to us via email.

That if you forget your Gateway user name and password and set up a new account in Gateway that your new account will not be connected to your church and you will not be able to access the forms you need on Gateway. To avoid this from happening, please contact Pam Mullay to obtain your user name and password for Gateway if you have forgotten it.

Clergy Compensation Reports are linked to medical and pension and if the reports are not submitted on time your 2011 medical and pension benefits can be affected.

That if you register anyone other than yourself on Gateway (aside from ROCK) for training, that person's name and email will take over your account and your name and email will disappear from Gateway. To avoid this each person must register for events individually unless stated that group registrations are allowed. We do this to allow for monitoring of CEU credits. If you have someone else register you then they will receive credit for the class in your place.