Prison Ministry and Restorative JusticeChairperson: Marilyn Schneider Report submitted by: Marilyn SchneiderEmail: mschneider2222@gmail.comPhone: (610) 578-0446Date submitted: 02/12/2021 Recent Events & Activities Successfully provided Healing Communities Training via 3, 2hr ZOOM sessions (Oct 21, 24, 28) to 22 attendees representing 10 …
Communications Resource Team Report: Communications Meeting Notes – 11/12/2020
Communications Resource TeamChairperson: Rev. John Bletsch Report submitted by: John ColemanEmail: jcoleman@epaumc.orgPhone: (443) 745-5654Date submitted: 02/13/2021 Files
Quadrennial Report of The General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, General Conference 2020
View this report on the General Commission of the Statas and Role of Women (GCSRW) website. “In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal.” Galatians …
A national focus in February on teen dating violence
President Joseph Biden has continued a recent, annual tradition with a White House Proclamation that observes February 2021 as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Announced Feb. 3, the proclamation reads in part: This February, during National Teen …
Bishop Johnson one of 16 U.S. bishops planning to retire
Bishop Peggy A. Johnson has announced her plans to retire after the Northeastern Jurisdictional (NEJ) Conference. “I have prayerfully considered this decision,” Bishop Johnson wrote in an open letter Feb. 13, “and I feel that it is in the best interest of the church and my family not to take another episcopal assignment in order to continue serving until 2024 (my mandatory retirement date).”
Churches serve as warming centers, shelters
UM churches scrambled to open as warming centers and overnight shelters as historic winter storms have left nearly 3 million homes in Texas and other states without electricity in subfreezing temperatures. Read More
A remembrance of Bishop F. Herbert Skeete
My knowledge of Bishop F. Herbert Skeete began with my ordination as a deacon in 1982 and an Elder in 1984. He was my first bishop as an ordained clergy member in The United Methodist Church. Over the years, I …
Observing a Long Lent
It is difficult to believe that the Season of Lent is upon us once again. It seems like it was just Christmas. I continue to receive delayed Christmas cards every day; so it still feels like the holiday season….
Grandview UMC Lancaster votes to leave UMC
Grandview UMC in Lancaster, Pa., will become Grandview Methodists on March 31, no longer a part of the Eastern PA Conference of The United Methodist Church but a new church serving “a wider Christian community.” Church leaders announced that carefully …
Mrs. Eulala Stinger
We have received word of the death of Mrs. Eulala Stinger on January 22, 2021. She was the surviving spouse of the Rev. William Stinger, a retired local pastor. Her full obituary can be read here: https://memorials.groffeckenroth.com/Stinger-Eulala/4506097/ Rev. Stinger served the …