Racial Justice Conversation Guide – This article is presented by GCORR, culled from the resources available on their website at www.gcorr.org. Please use and share this information as a follow-up to the Bishop’s request for action in response to the crisis and …
Information about Clergy Serving in Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural Appointments
The UMC Book of Discipline: Paragraph 425.4 Cross-racial and cross-cultural appointments are made as a creative response to increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the church and in its leadership. Cross-racial and cross-cultural appointments are appointments of clergypersons to congregations …
A global mission invite to visit orphans via Zoom
The Rev. Wendy Bellis invites other churches and members to join Morrisville UMC in a global, online “Vision Mission Trip,” a virtual visit to orphans in three countries through the convenience of Zoom. The orphans are served by Zoe Empowers, a …
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Report: February 2021 report – 02/12/2021
Prison Ministry and Restorative JusticeChairperson: Marilyn Schneider Report submitted by: Marilyn SchneiderEmail: mschneider2222@gmail.comPhone: (610) 578-0446Date submitted: 02/12/2021 Recent Events & Activities Successfully provided Healing Communities Training via 3, 2hr ZOOM sessions (Oct 21, 24, 28) to 22 attendees representing 10 …
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
Quadrennial Report of The General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, General Conference 2020
View this report on the General Commission of the Statas and Role of Women (GCSRW) website. “In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal.” Galatians …
A national focus in February on teen dating violence
President Joseph Biden has continued a recent, annual tradition with a White House Proclamation that observes February 2021 as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Announced Feb. 3, the proclamation reads in part: This February, during National Teen …
Global Ministries Team Update: Annual Report – 02/11/2021
Global Ministries TeamChairperson: Barbara Drake Report submitted by: Barbara DrakeEmail: bedrake15@aol.comPhone: (610) 446-1394Date submitted: 02/11/2021 Recent Events & Activities The Global Ministries Team prepared a Fall 2020/Winter edition of our newsletter, Wellspring, to explain the combination of 3 previous committees …
Domestic Violence Committee Update: Domestic Violence Committee – 02/11/2021
Domestic Violence CommitteeChairperson: Jody Anderson Jacqueline Hines Report submitted by: Jacqueline HinesEmail: pastorjacquelineumc@gmail.comPhone: (410) 963-1721Date submitted: 02/11/2021 Recent Events & Activities The Domestic Violence Committee has had regular meetings. Our last workshop held on October 9 and and 10th 2020 …
Readers flock to Conference’s new book study of Caste
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance.” —From Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents On Feb. 23 …