methodist

Every month the students at Dayton Oaks Elementary collect and deliver groceries to senior citizens at the Morningside Park Apartments in Jessup.

Anne Arundel religion briefs

Loch Raven Village Book Club meets monthly Panera Bread, Loch Raven United Methodist church will once again host its annual Festival of the Arts, Santa has breakfast with community children at Arnolia United Methodist Church, Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra performs concert at Loch Raven High School, Chorus of the Chesapeake (Dundalk Chapter) and The Upper Chesapeake Chorus - Sweet Adelines perform at Parkville High School,

Anne Arundel religion briefs

The choir from Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church will be performing in a benefit concert for the American Cancer Society at Bethany United Methodist Church in Ellicott City on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 3 p.m.

Roland Park Place, a retirement center, is looking to sell a church it owns next door. Roland Park Place really wanted to raze the church and put in parking lot for employees and guests, but the local community association said no. Now, while it tries to sell the church, Roland Park Place is also asking the community's blessing to put temporary parking behind the church.

Join the St. Peter's Episcopal Preschool community on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., to commemorate the school's 40th anniversary with an Autumn Celebration.

Junior Girl Scout Troop 2352 from Lisbon was the top selling troop for Girl Scout cookie sales in Howard County for the second consecutive year.

You can take a walk through a pumpkin patch to choose the perfect pumpkin for carving and go on a hay ride at Triadelphia Lake View Farm in Glenelg. You can get lost in a field of corn at Mullinix Corn Maze in Glenwood.

Mack Statham, 78, of Laurel, organist at First United Methodist Church and a composer whose "Trilogy of Dreams" was performed each of the last six years at Laurel's Sing for King commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Day, died Sept. 2.

Churches are a big part of Aberdeen's history. In the Aberdeen Room Museum we have a large display, and a large file of documents and photos of the many churches in the Aberdeen area.

Dayton Oaks Elementary School will start the new school year with a new principal, Carol DeBord, and a new assistant principal, Heather Tracy.

Volunteers of all ages are helping homeowners throughout Baltimore County fix up their homes for free

Hiss United Methodist Church holds and ice cream social and Brunch on Us to help the needy, vacation Bible school at Loch Raven United Methodist Church holds Coaster World

Has Elvis been reincarnated? You may think so if you attend the Michael Hoover performance at the Lisbon United Methodist Church on July 21 at the 10 a.m. service.

Ellen R. Brown, a retired church secretary and volunteer who cared for an historic chapel with her husband, died June 29 from complications of dementia. She was 84.

Members of the newly formed Bethany Korean United Methodist congregation, the first of its denomination in Howard County, gather weekdays at 5 a.m. for a dawn prayer service and on Sundays at 11:30 a.m. to worship.

Volunteers from United Methodist Church packed went to Murfreesboro, Tenn., for a service project; new Lion's Club meets in room 105 at Hiss United Methodist Church , YuJung Hwang and DaeSung

Area churches schedule vacation Bible schools during summer months.

Julia L. "Judy" Flowers, who worked 40 years in a Randallstown florist shop, died Sunday from pneumonia at Hospice & Community Care in Lancaster, Pa. She was 84.

Joseph Ellsworth Smith, a longtime auto mechanic and a Baltimore County school bus driver for 35 years, died Wednesday and at HeartFields Assisted Living at Bowie.

Eugenia "Jean" Bosley, a homemaker who was honored as a "shining star" for 35 years of child care in her church's Sunday morning nursery, died of multiple organ failure Monday at her Ruxton home. She was 93.

St. John's United Methodist Church is still an active church, despite turning over its former sanctuary to the 2640 Collective, a community arts group.

The Rev. Dr. Alfred A. Vaughn, who pastored United Methodist Churches for nearly 40 years, died May 21 from heart disease at his Cedonia home. He was 90.

Anne Arundel religion briefs

Eleanor E. Jaeger, a former department store sales associate and longtime active church member, died Sunday from complications of a broken hips at the Knollwood Nursing Home in Millersville. She was 99.

A Port Deposit-area retired milk inspector, who died after an accident that took place on his farmland Monday, will be remembered Friday and Saturday.

Area churches list Holy Week services

St. Patrick's Day and Easter activities fill the month of March.

Perryville community notes

Leta Dunham got a breakfast order to go on Roland Avenue Wednesday morning: a grande triple skim latte in her cup, and on her forehead, an ashen reminder that we are all destined to dust.

Mildred E. "Millie" Banwell, an artist who was a longtime supporter of the Lighthouse Shelter in Annapolis and an active member of Calvary United Methodist church, died Sunday of pulmonary fibrosis at Hospice of the Chesapeake in Pasadena. She was 75.

Shrove Tuesday feasts precede Lenten season

With all of its artifacts detailing its past, the church, says Gloria Brown, its historian, has a story to tell about itself and about African American life in Annapolis.

A very blustery, cold day didn't stop dozens of people from stopping in Havre de Grace Sunday for the city's 14th annual Christmas Open House of Historic 19th and 20th Century churches.

In the bright basement of a Towson parishioner's home, which in recent years has become a hub of holiday activity and goodwill, a dozen local residents gathered to wrap more than 600 Christmas presents to be delivered this week to a pair of Baltimore City elementary schools.

Former pastor of the Westminster United Methodist Church, the Rev. John Paul Buchheister Sr.; died last Saturday of cardiac failure at age 87.

The Rev. John Paul Buchheister, a retired pastor who had been a United Methodist Church district superintendent, died of cardiac failure Saturday at Oak Crest Village. He was 87 and had lived in Lutherville.

West Howard County briefs

Annual giveaway's goal a present for every child

Hundreds expected to enjoy free holiday meals

Howard County datebook

Aberdeen gearing up for the annual Christmas Street festivities