Pennsylvania still has racial and income-based disparities in funding for school districts across the state. Join the Stand Against Education Apartheid Rally Wednesday, June 21, 12-2 PM, at the State Capitol in Harrisburg. The Social Principles of The United Methodist …
Come for the Fun: UM Days at Dorney Park, June 23-25
Eastern Pa members can join members of other, neighboring conferences for fun and fellowship at United Methodist Days at Dorney Park, June 23-25.
UMM Report to the 2016 Annual Conference
Friday, June 17, 2016 The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Organization of United Methodist Men (EPCOUMM) would like to start by acknowledging all the support it gets from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, its Bishop, and officials. This was a difficult year for EPCOUMM …
Laity to learn about laundromat library ministry
Lay members attending the 2017 Annual Conference will learn about a lay-led ministry that is no doubt helping to open young minds through the adventure of reading books. And like many other treasures, those books are being found in rather …
More of what to expect at Annual Conference
AC2017 will feature musical variety The Annual Conference Worship Planning Team will offer a creative, intergenerational mix of musical styles–from traditional hymns played on the organ to praise songs by adult and youth bands–during conference session gathering times this week. …
Covering Annual Conference in prayer
The theme for Annual Conference 2017 is “Rise Up and Pray.” We want not only to know the theme but to live it out as we also live into it. As in past years, we will precede the start of Annual Conference on Thursday morning…
Bishop’s Report on the UMC Commission on a Way Forward
To the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference As you know, a 32-member Commission on a Way Forward was appointed by the Council of Bishops to assist the bishops in their charge from the 2016 General Conference to lead the church forward amid …
A response to the opioid epidemic
When we hear the word “epidemic” we typically think of a disease like Ebola or some virus or infection that spreads rapidly and causes much illness and death. In the case of the current opioid epidemic…
Study commission to follow Bishop’s forum on religious freedom, LGBTQ rights, church unity
Bishop Peggy Johnson convened on May 20 a forum in response to the *Religious Freedom Resolution (#2016-18) “committed” to her by the 2016 Annual Conference in lieu of legislative action. The resolution asked the Conference to formally denounce attempts to …
6 new Certified Lay Ministers graduate (Class of 2017)
Six lay members of the Eastern Pa Conference became Certified Lay Ministers (CLM) May 7 in a service of recognition at Montgomery Square UMC. They are the seventh class to complete the CLM process. The Conference now has 51 active Certified Lay …