Offering ‘Hands of Hope’ to the community

Mt. Zion UMC in Darby, which has operated a small community food pantry for 10 years, went big on Saturday, August 15. Members gave out 300 large, heavy, boxes of free food to grateful neighbors in the church parking lot …

A bountiful banquet of resourcing for ministry

By the Rev. Dawn Taylor-StormEastern PA Conference Director of Connectional Ministry One of the experiences I took for granted before the pandemic are church potluck dinners. I fondly remember potlucks at the local church overflowing with dishes from each person’s …

‘Fight for Floyd’ groups seek remedies to racial injustice

By John Coleman Nearly 300 participants joined an Eastern PA Conference video-conference on Zoom June 1 seeking ways to “Fight for Floyd,” following the brutal, racist killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police just a week earlier on May 25. …

CONAM provides liturgy to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 11

The Eastern PA Conference Committee on Native American Ministries (CONAM) submitted a resolution asking the 2020 Annual Conference to call upon churches to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day annually in October in place of the traditional Columbus Day as an act …

Whites Confronting Racism

Anti-racism education arouses new awareness, action By John W. Coleman I considered myself fairly aware before joining Whites Confronting Racism, but the breadth and depth of what I learned was pretty amazing. Among the things I was struck by was …