As we prepare for the slow, cautious process of reopening our churches after these many weeks of seclusion, we can find some helpful advice from the Word of God taken from Genesis 6-9, the account of Noah and the ark…
Clergy seek racial justice, peace at protest rallies
Eastern PA Conference clergy and laity have joined peaceful marchers in recent rallies for racial justice in Philadelphia and other cities, protesting the brutal killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis, Minn., police May 25. While violence and looting may have …
Conference tries to grow Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural ministry
‘This is not a project but a journey’ The Eastern PA Conference Commission on Religion and Race (CORR) holds its annual Ministry in a Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural Context (CR/CC) Workshop Saturday morning, June 6, for pastors and church leaders beginning or ending …
Conference suspends summer camps for 2020
‘Many tears have been shed’ By John W. Coleman The four Camp & Retreat Centers spread across the Eastern PA Conference have made the painful decision to suspend onsite summer camp this year, which was to begin in June. That action …
Workshop for New CR/CC Ministry Appointments, June 6
Ministry in a Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural Context: Workshop for New CR/CC Ministry Appointments. Online Zoom event. 9 AM – 12:30 PM.
‘Go-Sow-Lo’: Sermon for Trinity Sunday
Bishop Peggy Johnson: Jesus’ Great Commission means making disciples is the main goal of the church. It is what we should always be doing and never get distracted. Watch the video.
Church help feed their communities during coronavirus shutdown
By John W. Coleman Many churches around the Eastern PA Conference committed to feeding their communities are meeting the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic with extra food donations, volunteers and creative solutions, including moving their operations outdoors. But the need …
April 2020 EPA Financial Update
Connectional Ministries Fund Church giving for the Connectional Ministries Fund (CMF) was $896,551 through April 2020. Local church giving to CMF was $138 thousand less than budget and $278 thousand less than April 2019. Expenses through April 2020 was $951,141 …
Celebrating Asian/Pacific American heritage
The Rev. Grace S. Pak is the director of cross-racial and cross-cultural (CR/CC) leadership at the UMC’s General Commission on Religion & Race. She has worked closely with the Eastern PA Conference’s Commission on Religion & Race and Cabinet to …
“POWER: A Sermon for Pentecost Sunday”
By Bishop Peggy A. JohnsonMay 31, 2020 PentecostActs 2: 1-21 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind and …