Conference Advance Specials is a missional stewardship program of second-mile giving by generous churches, groups and individuals to support primarily local ministries. Churches that want to give to support Conference Advance Specials should first fulfill their primary connectional stewardship commitments to …
2019 Eastern PA Annual Conference: Young adult speakers reveal what to ‘tell the coming generation’
By John W. Coleman Three young adult speakers featured at the Eastern PA Annual Conference, June 13-15, evoked its theme, “Tell to the Coming Generation” (from Psalm 78), by telling their older peers what the younger, “coming generation” needs to …
Bishop’s Annual Conference report urges unity in Christ
By John W. Coleman In her June 13 State of the Church Report to the Eastern PA Annual Conference Bishop Peggy Johnson addressed several topics but zeroed in on a singular, hopeful theme. In the words of an old, popular …
Postscripts from Annual Conference 2019
Our Annual Conference celebrated and heard from the coming generation. But controversies over a resolution and election of 2020 delegates also challenged our unity in Christ. Our bishop responds to some concerns.
Good News leader calls for UMC division in 2020
By Jane Bonner* The Rev. Rob Renfroe, President and Publisher of Good News**, spoke to the Annual Breakfast gathering of the Eastern Pennsylvania Evangelical Connection on June 14,, during the Eastern PA Annual Conference. Bishop Peggy Johnson and her husband, Rev. …
Opening Worship Message, AC2019
Message by Samuel Longmire “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.” A couple years ago when I was a …
The FAQs (as in Frequently Avoided Questions): A Millennial Update
2019 EPA UMC Laity Address | June 13, 2019 Good Morning, everyone. I’d like to start by reading a few verses related to this year’s Annual Conference theme—Tell the Coming Generations. The book of Psalms, Chapter 78. Starting at verse …
Conference elects diverse delegates; OKs centrist resolution
By John W. Coleman The 2019 Eastern PA Annual Conference, meeting June 13-15 in Oaks, Pa., elected eight delegates to represent it at the 2020 General Conference (GC2020), May 5-15, in Minneapolis, and elected eight more delegates to join them …
Ordination service marks Annual Conference’s high moment
By John W. Coleman At the start of the Eastern PA Annual Conference’s Service of Commissioning and Ordination on Friday evening, June 14, the opening procession will fill the drab Expo Center hall with color and majesty as clergy in …
Annual Conference 2019
“Tell to the Coming Generation”
Soren Kierkegaard once wrote “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.” The people of God, however…