Three of our four Eastern PA Conference Camp & Retreat Centers will have their annual open houses this Saturday, May 18, welcoming guests to enjoy their scenic grounds, comfortable facilities and just a taste of summer camp fun in wonderful …
Domestic Violence event to focus on healing ‘toxic masculinity’
By John W. Coleman The Eastern PA Conference Domestic Violence Committee will offer an unusual focus at its second Domestic Violence: The Church Responds seminar on Saturday, Sept. 28. Participants will focus on boys and men, and how to help them heal …
Hurricane relief donation to Puerto Rico surpasses goal
Clergy of the Philadelphia Episcopal Area (Peninsula-Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania conferences) held their annual “Lenten Day Apart” with me at the Aldersgate UMC in Wilmington…
NEJ leaders respond to GC2019 decisions
The UMC’s Northeastern Jurisdiction recently alerted members to two statements published on its website that address historic outcomes of, and poignant reactions to, the 2019 Special Session of the General Conference. One is an Easter message from the NEJ Vision …
Mountville’s oldest church prepares for its 175th anniversary
As you drive along Mountville’s Main Street, the towers of the Gothic-style St. Paul’s United Methodist Church rise above the trees. A large stained-glass window overlooks the roadway. In the afternoon and evening hours, sunlight pours through the colorful glass …
Mrs. Louise B. Lobb
We have been informed of the death of Mrs. Louise B. Lobb, on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at the age of 102. She was the surviving spouse of the Rev. Thornton R. Lobb. The Rev. Lobb served the following Eastern …
See our delegate nominees for GC2020
View and read about the 27 clergy and lay Eastern PA Conference members nominated for General Conference 2020. We’ll vote on them at AC2019.
UMC on ‘wait and see’ mindset after church court upheld Traditional Plan on homosexuality: bishop
Left-leaning congregations and LGBT activists within the United Methodist Church are looking to next year’s General Conference in the hopes they can change the denomination’s stance on homosexuality. Despite failing to change the denomination’s official position against homosexuality and same-sex …
What did the Judicial Council decide?
Rather than rule on the 2019 UMC’s General Conference’s Traditional
Plan as a whole, the Judicial Council decided to rule instead on the
constitutionality of each of its petitions. Learn more…
Mrs. Alice Durbano
Mrs. Alice Durbano, spouse of The Rev. Vincent James Durbano, retired elder, passed away on April 25, 2019. The Rev. Vincent J. Durbano served the following EPAUMC churches: Marcus Hook: Cokesbury East Stroudsburg Friendship Trevose Linwood Heights Cokesbury-Linwood Blended Ministry …