Carson Simpson Farm in Hatboro, EPA’s Philadelphia-area Camp & Retreat Center, will host a free, lively, half-day, outdoor worship festival on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 12 to 5 PM. WorshipFest will feature an outpouring of music and messages from a …
COSROW to host event on women’s heart health, June 25
EPA’s Commission on the Status & Role of Women (COSROW) will shed light this month on a topic too long lost in the shadows of medical ignorance: heart illness in women. Deena Weems Thornton (left), Portfolio Advisor for Health & …
New Certified Lay Ministers persevere together while apart
Six new Certified Lay Ministers (CLMs) “graduated” in a Service of Recognition June 5, at Salem UMC in Orwigsburg. After months of class sessions on Zoom, they met each other in person there for the first time. Yet, despite so …
UMC, BSA* Relationship Update webinar set for June 16
A Letter from Steven Scheid, Director, Center for Scouting Ministries General Commission on UM Men (GCUMM), The United Methodist Church The following letter is being sent to scouting representatives in UMC congregations. There is no indication as of this email of …
EPA churches asked to become Covenant Partners with DRC missionaries
EPA Churches are invited to being supporting United Methodist Global Ministries missionaries Gaston and Jeanne Ntambo, who serve with Wings of the Morning in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We now have an official conference relationship with their longtime …
Church grateful for flood recovery aid from partner churches
“Our hearts are full,” announced the Rev. Catherine Bowers, in thanking partner churches and others for their support in the ongoing efforts of Otterbein UMC in Mont Clare to recover from Hurricane Ida-caused flood damages last September. “You have made …
Morton to manage Leadership Development in EPA
The Rev. Steve Morton, North District Superintendent, will become the Eastern PA Conference’s new Leadership Development Manager July 1. Morton, who has led the North District since 2018, will now help plan and coordinate a leadership development program to equip …
Gifts of the Spirit event may inform and transform
Saturday, May 28, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM on Zoom. In this course we will take a deep dive into the gifts of the Spirit. The goal will be to offer us a theological understanding of the gifts of Spirit. Then we will learn practical applications to help us enable and encourage usage of these God-given gifts in our various ministry contexts.
EPA honors churches, leaders for the fruit they bear
“Be purposeful and fruitful.” That creative challenge is in the last line of Bishop John Schol’s April 4 essay titled “ Direction: A Key Ingredient for Successful Leadership – Part 2: Mission.” He reminds us of the Eastern PA Conference’s mission: “Recruit …
Ordinands’ fruitfulness projects respond to individual, church, community needs
As the COVID pandemic in late 2020 took a heavy toll on many lives—including health, housing, businesses, jobs and family incomes—members of Wooddale UMC in East Stroudsburg and nearby rural Analomink UMC saw their communities increasingly in dire need of …