By Bruce Leuthold
On Monday, January 16, 2023, Glen Mar hosted the ninth annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service with AMES Memorial and St. Johns Baptist Church as co-hosts. The event was a community-bridging opportunity where everyone was invited to meet the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of our neighbors and ourselves. It was a relationship-building event with activities on the side. The event was an example of what faith in action looks like and being the hands, feet, and listening ear of God.

By Connie Ballenger
Thanks to Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Whitney and her family moved into a three-bedroom renovated rowhome in Baltimore shortly before Christmas. Habitat workers, many from Glen Mar Church, restored this home with almost 100 percent volunteer labor. It was a project that took many workdays held over the course of 15 months.

By Joan Marshall
Planning for this year’s Cold Weather Shelter proved to be a challenge for Grassroots. Given ongoing community concerns about the risk of a COVID outbreak, many local congregations were hesitant to offer to host guests in their building. At the same time, funding for hotel rooms was uncertain at best.

Thank you to all of you who graciously supported the 2022 Wish Upon A Star project. This year Glen Mar was able to bless 32 families plus 12 youth from the Board of Child Care with gifts and gift cards.

A huge thank you to all who worked behind the scenes, in the scenes, on a pony, hauling wood, filling Margaret’s shoes, doing what we do every year for our community. We did it! We pulled off our fifteenth annual Journey To Bethlehem, which was a big “we need to do this” idea that our (now retired) Minister for Children…