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Church provides new home for busy food pantry
“Black Creek UMC is famous for our homemade food!” proclaims the website of the small, friendly church in aptly named Sugarloaf, Pa. “Folks come from all over to try our famous cooking and enjoy a good time with family and …
Feb. 2023 Book Study: Tod Bolsinger’s Tempered Resilience
In Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change, Tod Bolsinger, author and leadership expert, will help us explore adaptive leadership qualities we can develop in changing times. Learn how to overcome the external challenges we face and the internal …
CoNAM learns about oppression of Indigenous people in 2 events
The coincidence of Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving Day both happening in November may be troubling to some who know the grim history of brutal oppression and exploitation of Indigenous Americans by early European invaders and settlers. EPA’s Committee …
State of the NEJ Episcopal Address by Bishop John Schol
As the Northeastern Jurisdiction, we gather together to be in ministry with the world. Yet there are those who are troubled among us. There are United Methodists among us today and in our congregations who feel harmed, unheard and unseen…
Courageous Dialogues offer space for grace to those with hearts to hear
You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger, for human anger does not produce God’s righteousness. James 1:19-20. The Eastern PA Conference’s Camp & Retreat Centers may be …
Bishop Schol returns to EPA, meets with clergy
The United Methodists of Eastern PA welcome Bishop John Schol back to provide continuing coverage as our episcopal leader through 2024. At the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference, Nov. 1-4, he was reassigned to EPA and also to the Greater New Jersey …
Celebrate, give on UM Student Day, Nov. 27
The official date for celebrating United Methodist Student Day this year is Nov. 27, although churches may celebrate on any day of their choosing. Our gifts to the Student Day special offering support over 70 much-needed loans and scholarships for undergraduate …
Veterans Day: Honoring former Buffalo Soldier, revered church scoutmaster
As America honors its military veterans on Friday, Nov. 11, Wharton-Wesley UMC in Philadelphia, is proud that one of its own served during World War II in a U.S. Army unit with a special inherited history. Louis M. Stukes Sr., …
Jurisdictions see shift in bishops, more cooperation
Even as The United Methodist Church faces mounting disaffiliations, those who plan to remain United Methodist are collaborating more across jurisdictional lines. Jurisdictional conferences also saw more women and more people of color become bishops and the most “firsts” since …