Elimination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) federal policy is being considered, and a decision to end it may be announced by the Trump Administration on Tuesday, September 5. I ask that we as the people called United Methodist, and others, …
UM churches answer racial violence with prayers, protests
[box color=”blue”]If your UM church has participated or plans to participate in events in response to racial unrest in Charlottesville and elsewhere please let us know so we can report it. Send us information and photos to communications@epaumc.org or use …
Efforts begin to return Carlisle children’s remains
ALL CARLISLE GATHERING PHOTOS TAKEN BY CHARLES FOX / PHILLY.COM PHOTOGRAPHER At the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., hidden behind the tall chain-link fences draped with black cloth and the signs that read, “Cemetery closed, please respect Native American …
Bishops, pastors respond to recent racial turmoil
Several Eastern PA Conference leaders are participating this week in peaceful local rallies to respond to the racial turmoil and violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend when white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members staged a “Take …
Advocate NOW for Affordable, Quality Health Care
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating proposed changes to our nation’s health care system that should alarm all of us and incite our urgent response. The White House administration and Senate Republican leadership …
Read the new issue of Wellspring online
49 Eastern PA churches sign up for Abundant Health Challenge The July-August issue of Wellspring, the Eastern PA Conference Health and Healing Council’s bimonthly newsletter, is online with 12 pages of valuable information, insights and even inspiration about living abundant …
Bishops join protest of proposed Medicaid cuts
Bishop Peggy Johnson and Bishop Violet Fisher (retired) offered prayers during a protest rally to protect Medicaid on Tuesday evening, July 18, in front of the Springfield office of U.S. Representative Patrick Leo Meehan (R-Pa., 7th District). The faith-based grassroots …
UM advocate urges help for trafficking victims
The Rev. Dai Morgan, legislative advocate for our three Pennsylvania annual conferences, reports monthly on his activities and key state and federal political issues and actions…
EPAC members ‘Rise Up’ to face prayerful concerns
2017 Eastern PA Annual Conference “What troubles have we seen,” begins the third, ominous verse of Charles Wesley’s venerable hymn, “And Are We Yet Alive,” which heralds the beginning of every Annual Conference. What mighty conflicts past, fightings without, and …
Liberty, justice, equality dominate conference resolutions
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The U.S. Congress adopted that Pledge of Allegiance to the nation …