Our Undies for Easter campaign is enroute to becoming a big success! The conference-wide effort to collect 2,000 pairs of men’s briefs for persons incarcerated in the Philadelphia Prison System and donate them to the head chaplain there before Easter …
EPA Latino Ministries coordinator to retire
The Rev. Lilian Lucrecia “Luky” Cotto has announced her retirement after three years as Coordinator of Latino Ministries in the Eastern PA Conference, effective July 1. She began that part-time, Connectional Ministries job in 2019, working with leaders of the conference’s …
Church helps nurse children back to health in Congo
For more than three years, The United Methodist Church has fed over 1,000 malnourished children in Bukavu, Kisangani, Kindu and Tunda. The effort — part of the Maternal and Child Health Program in East Congo — has been getting financial support from …
Debate about church future heats up
Two years after a diverse group of United Methodists introduced a proposal for separation, a global pandemic continues to keep the denomination uneasily together. However, with General Conference scheduled for later this year, preparations are accelerating for the future United Methodist …
“Learning for Leaders” Book Club feat. Kay Kotan – Recordings
January 12 – February 9, 2022 View all recordings.
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Report: book group and undies for easter programs – 01/25/2022
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Chairperson: Marilyn Schneider Report submitted by: Marilyn Schneider Email:mschneider2222@gmail.com Phone: (610) 578-0446 Date submitted: 01/25/2022 Recent Events & Activities Undies for Easter Campaign launched 1/21/22 to provide briefs for men entering the PHL prison system. …
Committee on Native American Ministries Report: November 2021 Program – 01/25/2022
Committee on Native American Ministries Chairperson: Sandi Ciancuilli and Sherry Wack Report submitted by: Sherry Wack Email:sherrywack222@gamil.com Phone: (484) 868-2044 Date submitted: 01/25/2022 Recent Events & Activities CONAM REPORT JANUARY 2022 Since our last report in October 2021 we have …
Phila. church hopes good overcomes evil after hate mail and burglary
Literally adding insult to injury, Emmanuel UMC in Philadelphia, a historic African American church, received a hateful, insulting message scrawled on notepaper this week, less than a month after the church was broken into…
Clothed in Love*: Undies for Easter
Donate much-needed men’s underwear briefs to Philadelphia prison inmates for Easter
Each inmate arriving into the Philadelphia Prison System is given ONE pair of underwear. Can you imagine living with only one pair of underwear?
Bishop to discuss new appointment-making process, Jan. 24
“I have always experienced making appointments as a sacred act filled with prayer, listening, conversation and discernment,” writes Bishop John Schol in a letter to EPAUMC clergy this week. He plans to discuss with them plans for a new way …