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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Financial Planning Seminar

 

Financial Planning Seminar

The Board of Pension and Health Benefits invites all Clergy, Spouses, SPRC Chairs and Church Financial workers.

Financial Experts will be addressing:

  • HSA Tax information

  • Social Security

  • Pre-Funding

  • Pension Planning

PLUS:
Make an appointment today to meet privately with Josie Martinez! 

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Resources for Local Church Ministry

Replanting the SeedReplanting the Seed is a program designed to recruit ethnic minority youths, young adults and second career individuals into ministry within the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. Participants will be provided the opportunity to explore the call and preparation for various ministries within the church. Leadership will be provided by Bishop Johnson, Representatives from BMCR and Black United Methodist Ministers of Eastern Pennsylvania United Methodist Church.  This important event will take place on Saturday, October 8. 

This is one of many resources available for Eastern Pennsylvania Conference churches, pastors, and members in their efforts to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

To read and share more of these resources, click here:
Resources for Local Church Ministry (2011-09-28).

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Create a DREAM Sabbath for your community

Latino youth from Eastern Pennsylvania Conference churches gather together to worship and to become "Dreamers" working in support of the DREAM Act.  
Bishop Peggy Johnson invites our churches to hold a DREAM Sabbath to focus a service or part of a service on the DREAM Act. Read her blog by clicking here.  Visit the website of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition to sign up to participate and check out a packet which will include theological reflections, sermon starters, stories of DREAM students, bulletin inserts, myths and facts about the Act, and a petition that people can sign to support the DREAM Act. 

 

The Rapid Response Team of EPA is requesting that churches in our conference pray for the Dreamers during the days between Sept 16 and Oct 16th.  

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

An evening with the bishop

Bishop Johnson signing"An Evening with the Bishop", a live internet feed for ALL YOUTH AND YOUNG AT HEART...

Join Bishop Peggy Johnson for an evening of worship and a Q&A session with your fellow youth and young adults from around the conference - all from the comfort of your own home onTuesday October 4th, at 7:15 pm.  The evening will begin with worship music from 7:15 to 7:30.   At 7:30pm, Bishop Johnson will speak and Q&A time will follow! Questions will be accepted via text and email.

No vans, permission slips or drivers needed!  You can have youth come to your church to participate or they can log on from their own home!  This would be a wonderful opportunity for Confirmation classes!  At 7:15pm on Tuesday October 4th, simply go to http://mocolive.moravian.edu for a live feed of the evening! 

Monday, September 26, 2011

Good Schools PA adopts new name and mission

Good Schools PA adopts new name and missionIt's hard to believe that Good Schools Pennsylvania was formed in September 2001 as a three-year campaign to change the way Pennsylvania funds and supports public education.  Our accomplishments include raising awareness of the inequities in funding public education in Pennsylvania, working with the General Assembly to conduct a study to determine the real costs of providing a quality public education to all students, and seeing that data turned into a new school formula to distribute state aid.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Service welcomes Gary Nicholson as Northwest District superintendent

On the evening of Saturday, September 10, Bishop Peggy Johnson, members of the Cabinet, and laity and clergy from across The Northwest District and the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference came together at Lickdale: Trinity United Methodist Church to celebrate the appointment of The Rev. Gary L. Nicholson as Northwest District superintendent.

About 200 persons were able to attend despite many road closings and detours due to recent flooding in the area. 

Among them was a very proud Rev. Blake E. Nicholson, Jr. retired elder of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, and father of the new superintendent.  “I’m proud!  I thought his message was wonderful, and a witness to what the Lord has done in his life,” he said.  “Too bad Anne (Gary’s mother) didn’t live to see the day.  She would have appreciated being there.   I think he’ll make a wonderful DS.”

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Sept. 21: Prayer Gathering, Procession and Public Witness to end gun violence

A Prayer Gathering, Procession and Public Witness will be held in Philadelphia on September 21, the International Day of Prayer for Peace.  Heeding God’s Call, the faith-based and grassroots campaign to persuade gun retailers to adopt a Code of Conduct intended to diminish ‘straw purchasing’ and illegal gun trafficking,  and Neighborhood Partners to End Gun Violence (NPEG) will host a Prayer Gathering, Procession and Public Witness on Wednesday, September 21, the International Day of Prayer for Peace. 

The event, Stop Straw Purchasing: Stand Against Illegal Guns will begin at 4pm at 16th and Catherine Streets in Philadelphia, the site of a shooting in July, and process north on Broad to Dilworth Plaza at City Hall. Tee shirts commemorating each 2011 Philadelphia shooting death to date will be carried by walkers. United Methodists have played leading roles in Heeding God’s Call’s growing campaign. 

Monday, September 19, 2011

Urgent need for flood buckets

Students from Penn unload flood buckets

 

Students from the University of Pennsylvania help to uload flood buckets brought from Mission Central to Camp Innabah.  Read more: http://www.epaumc.org/news/stories/umcor-flood-buckets

There is an urgent need for flood buckets in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.  All churches are encouraged to assemble flood buckets to help with the clean up of homes and businesses in southeastern Pennsylvania.

UPDATED LIST OF FLOOD BUCKET COLLECTION POINTS AROUND THE CONFERENCE

DIRECTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING FLOOD BUCKETS

According to Debra Deprinzio, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Disaster Response Coordinator:

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Healing the Wounds of Racism training CANCELLED

Healing the Wounds of Racism

The Healing the Wounds of Racim event scheduled for September 16-18, 2011 has been cancelled.  If you have registered for this event, please contact Gloria Knoeller at (610) 666-9090, ext. 222 to have your money refunded or to have your registration transferred to October 21-23, 2011.

REGISTER NOW FOR OCTOBER 21-23 TRAINING

If you have any questions regarding the scheduling and/or cancellation of Healing the Wounds of Racism events contact Rev. Hilda Campbell at  (484) 480-5663.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Flood buckets come to Eastern PA from UMCOR

unloading flood bucketsThe fraternity/sorority community from the University of Pennsylvania, attending leadership training at Camp Innabah, helped the Conference Disaster Response Team to unload a shipment of flood buckets from Mission Central.  The flood buckets will be used for clean up area homes and businesses due to the recent flooding caused by hurricanes and rain storms.

Debra DePrinzio, Eastern Pennsylvania Diasaster Response Coordinator, recently picked up a shipment of flood buckets which arrived for our conference from UMCOR.   

She said, “On Saturday, I drove out to Mission Central in Mechanicsburg to pick up flood buckets. They loaded up the 15' box truck I rented and gave us 336 buckets that were recently shipped from UMCOR’s Sager Brown Depot in Louisiana.   We are storing the flood buckets at Camp Innabah with the help of Christy Heflin and her staff.

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