Allegheny East and Chesapeake Conferences Work Together in Baltimore

Story by Visitor Staff

This fall, volunteers from across the Columbia Union Conference and beyond, including several members from Chesapeake Conference’s Dundalk (Md.) church (pictured above), provided some 1,048 individual health services at a free medical, vision and dental clinic at Allegheny East Conference’s (AEC) Miracle City church in Baltimore.

Services included dental cleanings, extractions and fillings; vision testing and free glasses; basic medical screenings; and mental health and lifestyle guidance and resources. The clinic is just one of several programs that comprise Reach Baltimore, a collaborative evangelism effort between the Chesapeake and Allegheny East conferences and with support from the Columbia Union Conference, North American Division and It is Written.

“This clinic was such a tremendous blessing as we were able to serve hundreds who were either uninsured or underinsured.

I’m especially grateful for all the volunteers who came from as far as California to help provide these critical services to our community,” says Trevor Kinlock, AEC president.

The community was also invited to attend a wellness day at Miracle City church and a lecture series at Goucher College in Baltimore, featuring historical and archaeological evidence for the stories, places and people in the Bible.

Plans for these events had been underway for three years and culminated in Hope for Humanity, a month of evangelistic meetings designed for the 630,000 residents of Baltimore and the surrounding communities.

G. Alexander Bryant, North American Division president, and John Bradshaw, It Is Written president, co-preached the series, also held at Goucher College. Robert Costa of It Is Written also preached a Spanish language series.

“This is unprecedented for the largest city in the Chesapeake Conference territory. Much prayer, planning and work has gone into preparing for this joint initiative,” says Jerry Lutz, Chesapeake president.