Anne Ewing, 78, a longtime, active member of First UMC of Germantown and a recipient of its Racial and Social Justice Award, died of cancer March 17. She was a teacher and activist who labored to improve public education, health …
Call to Prayer for GC2016: Pray for those who may determine NEJ episcopal areas
Pray for those who may determine NEJ episcopal areas. On the fifth day of General Conference there is a gathering of the Interjurisdictional Committee on the Episcopacy…
Eastern PA giving to Africa University exceeds 100%
The Eastern PA Conference’s generous apportioned giving in 2015 is celebrated in two recent newsletters published by the Africa University Development Office at the UMC’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. Articles in The Acacia (Jan.-Feb. issue) and Africa …
Opening of the first Greater Lebanon Area LifeTree Cafe
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The West Lebanon, Annville Cleona Connection church group is pleased to announce that the first Lebanon area LifeTree Cafe will be opening on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 7:00 PM! LifeTree is a proven method used …
Mid-Town Parish welcomes new home at long last!
A long, long-awaited, hoped-for, prayed-for, yearned-for moment finally arrived March 10 and 11, when Mid-Town Parish UMC in Philadelphia received its modular, pre-fabricated buildings that will soon become its new church facility. The structures came crawling in on huge flatbed …
February 2016 EPA Financial Update
Overall, EPA will bill $17.5 million to its churches in 2016, $10.9 million for benefits and insurance, and $6.6 million for Conference and Denomination ministries. Of this amount, the EPA churches have paid $2.1 million to the Conference through February 2016, slightly ahead of the payment rate for 2015. The Connectional Ministries Fund received $441 thousand, or 12% of the annual billed amount. Read more
Call to Prayer for GC2016: Prayers for our church and its global Discipline
Prayers for our church and its global Discipline–At our General Conference, which will be held in Portland, Oregon (May 10-20), there will be conversation about a Global Book of Discipline.
Rev. Richard Voigt
We were just informed of the death of the Rev. Richard Voigt, 83, Retired Elder, who passed away on February 19, 2016. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to his surviving spouse, Mrs. Linda A. Voigt, at 1050 Dogwood Drive, …
Eastern PA leader comments on Bishops’ accountability covenant
“Accountability is a fundamental way of life among the people called Methodists,” said Philadelphia Area Bishop Peggy Johnson in a just-published UM News Service story on a task force recommendation that the Council of Bishops adopt a covenant of accountability …
Photos from Southeast District Tools for Ministry 2016
Photos by Sabrina Daluisio