UMC
Who is attributed with saying, "Do all the good you can, By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can, In all the places you can,
At all the times you can, To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can"?
Who is John Wesley?
St. John's joined forces with Dumbarton, Foundry & Capitol Hill UMCs founded this network and support individuals who suppot full inclusion of LGBT persons in the UMC.
What is BWARM (Baltimore-Washington Area Reconciling United Methodists).
In 1987 St. John's served as a sanctuary chruch to house undocumented persons from this country.
What is El Salvador?
This person was in the National Spelling Bee in 7th grade.
Who is Barbara Larcom?
This Baltimore filmaker often worked with actor & drag queen Divine.
Who is John Waters?
In this year the Methodist Church granted women full clergy rights.
What is 1956?
This mission of the church was featured in City Paper's article, "Shelter from the Storm" in 2010.
What is Heart's Place Shelter?
What major event occurred on December 16, 1981 that altered the life of the church?
A five-alarm fire that seriously damaged the church building
When I was growing up (in a place with colder winters than Baltimore's), my Dad grew an orange tree in our back yard.
Who is Kim Leith?
This native Baltimorean holds 28 gold medals!
Who is Micahel Phelps?
The humanitarian relief and development arm of The United Methodist Church that assists United Methodists and churches to become involved globally in direct ministry to persons in need.
What is UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief)?
"Simply put, we work to advance justice and inclusion for all LGBTQ people in The United Methodist Church and beyond." St. John's signed on to this movment in 1985 and became the 13th church to do so at the time.
What is the Reconciling Ministries Network?
In 1886 Rev. Klein, a Methodist missionary affiliated with St.John's, established a congregation in this Asian country.
What is Japan? Specifically Yolohama, to be exact. :)
After two years of spraining ankles and legs snow skiing in New England, became a lodge snow bunny where hot buttered rum was much more fun than cold feet.
Who is Carol Berman?
In the 1940s this Baltimore brewing company invented the six-pack. Operating under the rational explanation that four beers wouldn’t be enough and eight was too many, the six-pack gained popularity as a beverage standard.
What is National Bohemian? (aka "Natty Boh" hon) :)
This UMC program combines strengths of the US-2 and Mission Intern programs that began in 1951 and 1977, respectively. This program engages young adults passionate about social justice to serve either in one’s own country or internationally; literally ‘from everywhere, to everywhere’.
What is Global Misson Fellows (GMF)?
It all started in 1987 with six ambulance-stretcher cots and a crockpot of turkey soup thanks to Carol & Rich Berman.
What is Heart's Place Shelter?
St. John's owned this on East Monument Street near the present site of Johns Hopkins Hopsital.
What is a burial ground? (interesting fact: there was also a vault built in the cellar of the church and the sexton allowed "fifty cents for opening the vault to receive or deliver a coffin.")
Our Methodist youth group in Malaysia met in our home. When they went to the kitchen to get refreshments, they found a cobra living under the stove
On this day, June 23, in 1784, in Baltimore, 13-year-old Edward Warren, went airborne in this making it the first successful manned launch of its kind in the United States.
What is hot air balloon?
John Wesley wrote this medical text for the everyday person. This book detailed current knowledge about home remedies.
What is Primitive Physic?
Nan McCurdy and Phil Mitchell organized a trip to this country and founded this organization. Since 1985 at least one delegation has visited each year and continues to offer financial support.
This friendship-city project connecting the peoples of Baltimore, MD and this Latin American country. "They operate within a worldwide network of linked communities in poorer and wealthier nations working toward global justice and peace."
What is Casa Baltimore/Limay?
In 2007 a partnership between this bookstore & St. John's was established under the 2640 Cooperative which is a "noncommercial, cooperatively managed space for radical politics and grassroots culture."
What is Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse?
This person love to bake & surprise friends and relative with special treats (pumpkin bread, brownies).
Who is Elizabeth?
The first of its kind of factory was founded in 1828 by German immigrant Francis Beehler. The company’s motto was, “Born in Baltimore, Raised Everywhere!.”
What the Beehler Umbrella Factory?