The Eastern PA Conference wants to help hard-hit local churches and communities recover from severe damages inflicted by the remnant of Hurricane Ida as it swept through the Northeast region Sept. 2. Several churches and numerous communities were ravaged by …
Congo Partnership Projects Overview – August 2021 Update
The Congo Partnership & The Eastern PA Conference View and download this update as a PDF. The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference is a vital part of the Congo Partnership, an exciting relationship with the Central Congo Episcopal Area and several U.S. …
Summer Camps celebrate a challenging but successful season
“We’re back!” trumpeted Pocono Plateau at the opening of its Summer Camp in June. “We did it!” beamed Gretna Glen Director Apryl Miller in her Summer Camp review letter in late August. In between those two cries of celebration were …
Despite Ebola lessons, COVID-19 challenges Africans
Health officials across Africa are struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, despite lessons learned in the fight against Ebola. As with the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, they are striving to overcome public skepticism and other barriers, but they …
Hurricane Ida takes out church buildings
After ripping through parts of the Caribbean, Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc across southeast Louisiana early this week, including United Methodist-owned buildings among its targets. But the historic storm continued its destructive onslaught of roaring winds, devastating tornadoes and dangerous flooding …
UMCOR responds to crises in Haiti, Afghanistan
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is responding to suffering and loss in an earthquake-ravaged section of Haiti, providing funds to Methodists and other partners there to help Haitians who have lost their homes and family members and to buy …
Church to host needed Red Cross blood drive
Mount Pocono UMC will host a Red Cross blood drive in its Social Hall on Friday, August 27, at 11-4 PM. “We scheduled the blood drive because many of the regularly scheduled blood drives were canceled due to Covid,” says …
Church pre-school needs help laying floor tiles
Anybody up for a little home improvement mission project at a church? El Mesias UMC, at 3200 N Front St, in Philadelphia’s Kensington community, needs volunteer help to lay adhesive floor tiles in its child development center on any Saturday …
Phila. pastor hired to lead Urban Ministries
Terry Bridges, lay-supply pastor of Midtown Parish UMC in Philadelphia, will become the Eastern PA Conference’s new part-time Coordinator of Urban Ministries Sept. 1. Having served as a minister in Philadelphia Baptist churches for nearly 20 years, Bridges began assisting …
Church keeps resilient backpack ministry going
Wesley UMC in Bethlehem is at it again. The church will hold its ninth “We Got Your Back” school backpack giveaway event this Saturday, August 21, at 8 AM to 12 noon. They will give away backpacks filled with school …