Palmer Theological Seminary, at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA, serves up a “Wesleyan flavor” to its weekly United Methodist chapel services on Tuesday evenings, featuring mostly EPAUMC clergy speakers. The services happen at 6:05 PM in McInnes Hall, Room 251, …
Campus ministry offers students healthy food, fellowship during pandemic
EPAUMC’s Open Door Christian Community, a United Methodist campus ministry at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is sponsoring Winter Wellness Wednesdays this season…
United Methodists extend BSA charters through June 2022
United Methodist leaders have reached an agreement with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to extend existing UMC-sponsored Scouting charters through June 30, 2022 to provide for uninterrupted ministry with young people through Scouting…
EPAUMC gets live tour of Congo Partnership mission sites via Zoom
View the Congo Partnership tour’s recorded video on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1tIj4EdlY The Peter D. Weaver Congo Partnership, now 20 years old, welcomed the Eastern PA Conference on a live video tour of its Mpasa Medical and Nutrition Center on …
Conference hires 2 disaster recovery project staff
EPAUMC has hired two staff to manage its disaster recovery efforts in communities still struggling to rebound from hurricane-related storms in recent years—namely hurricanes Ida in 2021 and Isaias in 2020. Those efforts—named Project Restoration—are supported by donations from churches …
This Holy Mystery: A UM Study of Holy Communion
The EPAUMC Board of Ordained Ministry will again offer an exploration of Holy Communion on two Saturdays, March 19 and 26, at 9 to 11:30 AM via Zoom. The Revs. Candy LaBar and Gary Knerr will lead the study again…
Hendren aiming for stability at Wespath
Prudent investing is complicated at any time. But as Andrew Hendren works to get his sea legs as the new top executive at Wespath Benefits and Investments, the outlook is downright dizzying…
Church disaffiliations, court cases mount
With a proposed United Methodist separation on hold, a growing number of congregations are moving ahead with their own plans to leave the denomination. Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church, one of the largest churches in the Alabama-West Florida Conference, is …
North District’s new Lenten resource studies Fathers & Daughters
The Rev. Steve Morton, North District Superintendent, offers all churches another Lenten study led by district clergy–this one focusing on a rarely explored topic: biblical relationships between fathers and daughters. The original 7-week Bible study–an annual passion project for Morton– …
PA Council of Churches seeks church leaders’ views about its mission
The Pennsylvania Council of Churches, led by UM clergyman the Rev. Larry Pickens, seeks input from pastors and laity as it looks at its future and how it can best serve churches across the Commonwealth. It invites both groups to join …