The Body Keeps the Score, published in 2014, has become a best-selling book again, as many people are exploring the experience of trauma and its effects on countless lives and relationships. The Eastern PA Conference’s Domestic Violence Committee will delve …
Project Restoration Youth Day of Service a success; 3 more to come
While off from school, about 15 youth from three South District churches came to Otterbein UMC in Mont Clare on Monday, Sept 26, to help the church recover from 2021’s Hurricane Ida flood damage. It was the first of four …
Laity Sunday: Rise Up and Testify to God’s Grace!
Laity Sunday is observed on the third Sunday in October (October 16, 2022). Each year The United Methodist Church celebrates the ministry and witness of laypersons everywhere through a special service. The Greater New Jersey Conference’s Breakthrough Resource is offering …
New Conference Lay Leader wants to first listen, then lead
William Preston “Bill” Thompson, our new Eastern PA Conference Lay Leader, wants to speak up for the concerns of laity. But first he wants to listen. He likes to share a favorite maxim of his dad’s about having two …
17 laity complete North District cluster’s regional academy
Eastern PA Conference churches in the northwestern part of the North District resumed their annual, regional Laity Academy at Elysburg UMC in September after a two-year hiatus caused by the Covid pandemic.
Bishop Hassinger to keynote COSROW’S Wisdom-Seeking Women
The Eastern PA Conference Commission on the Status & Role of Women (COSROW) invites all women of faith to participate in an online spiritual renewal retreat over two-evenings, Oct. 21-22, at 6:30 to 9 PM, via Zoom. The Upper New …
Exton UMC to remember Centralia “From Ashes to Rebirth” Oct. 22
The Revs. Meagan Ackerman of Exton UMC and Rose Marquardt of Zion UMC in Aristes will once again tell the history of Centralia UMC, the coal-region predecessor of present-day Exton UMC in Chester County. The two churches will come together to share their connected stories.
Camp & Retreat Centers burst into fall with Worship Fest and more
The Eastern PA Conference’s four Camp & Retreat Centers have transitioned into autumn like the vivid fall foliage that will soon overtake their grounds.
Esposito to direct Wesley Foundation campus ministry at Drexel
The Rev. Diana Esposito is the new Executive Director of the Wesley Student Foundation of Philadelphia, where she directs the Open Door Campus Ministry at Drexel University. The ordained deacon has been a campus chaplain at Drexel for six years, …
EPA youth help ‘IGNITE’ youth rally in Wildwood, NJ
Just steps from the Atlantic Ocean, amid swirling gusts of an early autumn wind, the Holy Spirit was aflame as more than 700 enthusiastic youth, adult leaders and event staff converged on the sprawling Wildwood Convention Center from Sept. 30 …