United Methodist leaders have reached an agreement with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to extend existing UMC-sponsored Scouting charters through June 30, 2022 to provide for uninterrupted ministry with young people through Scouting…
Ebersole, Thomas
Thomas Ebersole to West Lawn UMC The Rev. Tom Ebersole has served EPAUMC churches for 20 years. His pastorate began in 2002 with a 6 year appointment to Valley Forge United Methodist. A move to Messiah United Methodist in Lafayette …
Wailoo, Alisa Lasater
Alisa Lasater Wailoo to Germantown: First UMC Alisa, an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, served as Lead Pastor at Capitol Hill UMC in Washington DC for 13 years. She’s previously served as the Protestant Chaplain at Georgetown Law Center, …
Chung, Bumkoo
Bumkoo Chung to Coatesville: Olivet UMC The Rev. BumKoo Chung was born in Seoul, South Korea, where his father was a minister in the Korean Methodist Church. In 1984, his family moved to Argentina to do missionary work among Korean …
Salvacion, Mark
Mark Salvacion to Bryn Mawr: St. Luke Mark I. Salvacion is a Provisional Elder in the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference and has served Historic St. George’s UMC in Old City, Philadelphia since 2017. Beginning in 2019, Mark has also served …
Keretzman, John J.
John J. Keretzman, II to Bethel UMC John was ordained a Deacon in 1988 and received his Elders Orders in 1991. He has served the following appointments: The former Grace UMC in Coatesville, Willow Street: Boehm’s, Frackville, Elverson, Quarryville: Memorial, …
EPAUMC gets live tour of Congo Partnership mission sites via Zoom
View the Congo Partnership tour’s recorded video on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1tIj4EdlY The Peter D. Weaver Congo Partnership, now 20 years old, welcomed the Eastern PA Conference on a live video tour of its Mpasa Medical and Nutrition Center on …
Conference hires 2 disaster recovery project staff
EPAUMC has hired two staff to manage its disaster recovery efforts in communities still struggling to rebound from hurricane-related storms in recent years—namely hurricanes Ida in 2021 and Isaias in 2020. Those efforts—named Project Restoration—are supported by donations from churches …
This Holy Mystery: A UM Study of Holy Communion
The EPAUMC Board of Ordained Ministry will again offer an exploration of Holy Communion on two Saturdays, March 19 and 26, at 9 to 11:30 AM via Zoom. The Revs. Candy LaBar and Gary Knerr will lead the study again…
Hendren aiming for stability at Wespath
Prudent investing is complicated at any time. But as Andrew Hendren works to get his sea legs as the new top executive at Wespath Benefits and Investments, the outlook is downright dizzying…