New Life UMC’s Prayer and Praise Service Lifts Spirits

 New Life UMC at Drexel Hill celebrated its 6th annual Prayer and Praise Celebration on July 13 welcoming all commuters for prayer, praise and worship at SEPTA’s 69th Street Terminal Transportation Center Station in Philadelphia. The celebration was a hands-on …

Jurisdictional Conference Repents of Systemic Racism

Delegates explore history of structural racism in the Methodist Church In the space where episcopal elections would have taken place, delegates gathered for a holy conversation about race and the way that structural and systemic racism colors both our past …

Doing small things with great love

Shores of Grace Philadelphia “Not all of us can do great things,” said Mother Teresa, “but we can do small things with great love.”  With vastly increased funding and policing, Philadelphia’s new mayor is beginning to do great things in …

Beth Stroud returns to FUMCOG a reinstated Elder

‘We Don’t Know How’ Thanks to her reinstatement by clergy members of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference May 21, the Rev. Dr. Irene Elizabeth “Beth” Stroud can preach and serve Holy Communion as an Elder again. She did so for the …

Go deeper this summer at the next 2024 Laity Academy

Have you been hearing a quiet whisper, or maybe a not-so-subtle shout for you to take the next step in discipleship?  The Laity Academy Summer Session II, scheduled for August 2-3, at Eastern University’s Palmer Theological Seminary in St. Davids, …

Camp’s suburban farm feeds urban families

The Carson Simpson Farm Christian Center is located in suburban Hatboro, PA. Since he arrived as its director in 2020, Jonathan Curtis always wondered about that odd name because it didn’t have a farm. Well, now it does…albeit a small …