Our Undies for Easter campaign is enroute to becoming a big success! The conference-wide effort to collect 2,000 pairs of men’s briefs for persons incarcerated in the Philadelphia Prison System and donate them to the head chaplain there before Easter …
EPA Latino Ministries coordinator to retire
The Rev. Lilian Lucrecia “Luky” Cotto has announced her retirement after three years as Coordinator of Latino Ministries in the Eastern PA Conference, effective July 1. She began that part-time, Connectional Ministries job in 2019, working with leaders of the conference’s …
“Learning for Leaders” Book Club feat. Kay Kotan – Recordings
January 12 – February 9, 2022 View all recordings.
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Report: book group and undies for easter programs – 01/25/2022
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Chairperson: Marilyn Schneider Report submitted by: Marilyn Schneider Email:mschneider2222@gmail.com Phone: (610) 578-0446 Date submitted: 01/25/2022 Recent Events & Activities Undies for Easter Campaign launched 1/21/22 to provide briefs for men entering the PHL prison system. …
Committee on Native American Ministries Report: November 2021 Program – 01/25/2022
Committee on Native American Ministries Chairperson: Sandi Ciancuilli and Sherry Wack Report submitted by: Sherry Wack Email:sherrywack222@gamil.com Phone: (484) 868-2044 Date submitted: 01/25/2022 Recent Events & Activities CONAM REPORT JANUARY 2022 Since our last report in October 2021 we have …
Phila. church hopes good overcomes evil after hate mail and burglary
Literally adding insult to injury, Emmanuel UMC in Philadelphia, a historic African American church, received a hateful, insulting message scrawled on notepaper this week, less than a month after the church was broken into…
Clothed in Love*: Undies for Easter
Donate much-needed men’s underwear briefs to Philadelphia prison inmates for Easter
Each inmate arriving into the Philadelphia Prison System is given ONE pair of underwear. Can you imagine living with only one pair of underwear?
New Pocono Plateau director seeks to learn in order to lead
Carmen O’Shea, new director of Pocono Plateau Camp & Retreat Center, shared in a letter to campers, friends and supporters, the joy of her new ministry assignment, as she settles into a learning mode and faces its many challenges and …
Tools for Ministry set for March 5 on Zoom
It’s time to open the proverbial tool box again to help build and repair church ministries—to fix what’s broken and improve what’s working. That requires leadership development and training more than anything else. So the Eastern PA Conference will sponsor …
AJ Levine returns to introduce us to witnesses at Jesus’ cross
The Eastern PA Conference Congregational Development Team (CDT) Book Club will welcome back in March internationally renowned author, scholar and professor Amy-Jill Levine for a new four-week book study via Zoom, on Wednesdays, March 2 to March 23, at 11 …