It’s finally here! After 5½ years, the Eastern PA Conference has a new website with new colors, new pages, new features, a new more contemporary style, new functionality, and a whole new look. “New” is the key word here. In …
Communications Resource Team Report: Communications Meeting Notes – 11/12/2020
Communications Resource TeamChairperson: Rev. John Bletsch Report submitted by: John ColemanEmail: jcoleman@epaumc.orgPhone: (443) 745-5654Date submitted: 02/13/2021 Files
Style and Reference Guide
Style and Reference Guide Produced by UMCommunications
Local Church Communicators Survey
Local Church Communicators, please download, complete and return our short questionnaire, so that we can better communicate, serve and share resources with you and your church. Thanks! Download: Communicators Survey
Local Church Crisis Communications Plan
A Local Church Crisis Communications Plan produced by UM Communications. This document is a template that local churches can adapt to meet their own specific circumstances and needs. Review the template closely and determine where the plan may need to be modified. The …
NEWSpirit Communications Policy for Reporting and Promoting News and Events
NEWSpirit Communications will endeavor to report in its media all known events sponsored by the Eastern PA Conference, its Districts, Local Churches, Conference Administrative and Connectional Ministry Groups and Conference-Affiliated Groups. News and events of other Non-Conference Affiliated Groups that …
Communications Ministry Team Report: Recent Communications Activities & Plans – 04/21/2020
Communications Ministry Team Chairperson: Rev. John Bletsch Report submitted by: John Coleman Email: jcoleman@epaumc.org Phone: (443) 745-5654 Date submitted: 04/21/2020 Recent Events & Activities In March we started a new special webpage, Coronavirus Ministry Response, offering news and information, connectional …
Eastern PA wins 5 UMC communications awards
The Eastern PA Conference Communications Office won five awards for journalistic excellence from the United Methodist Association of Communicators (UMAC) March 23 at the professional organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Those awards included two, shared top writing awards for …
New online church website, marketing courses offered
More and more churches are realizing they need new ways of presenting themselves—and their light—to the world, of putting their lamps on lampstands, rather than hiding them under “bushel baskets” (Matthew 5:15). Websites and marketing are two ways of making …