When disaster strikes, early response teams can make all the difference. Angela Overstreet, a manager for the UMCOR United States Disaster Response Training Program, is coming to Eastern Pennsylvania to teach us how to help those impacted by disaster. When …
A call to prayer for Jurisdictional Conference
Delegates from across the Northeastern Jurisdiction will gather in Pittsburgh, PA from July 10 to 12 to set the missional focus of the jurisdiction, consider the boundaries of annual conferences, and assign bishops. The conference, themed “Overflowing with Hope” (Romans …
EPA & GNJ Mission Pilgrimage renews & inspires
Travelers from EPA & GNJ have just returned from a pilgrimage lead by Rev. Hun Ju Lee, District Superintendent of the North District. This cross-cultural encounter traced the missionary journey and ministry impact of Henry Gerhard Appenzeller, a missionary sent …
Thank you, John Coleman, for telling our stories
John Coleman will retire from his journalistic journey on the EPA&GNJ staff June 30 and step into something new. As we reflect on his nearly 11 years of service, we want to say thank you, John, for all that you have done …
EPA Latino Commission events bless minds, bodies, souls
June has been a busy but blessed month for the Eastern PA Conference Latino Commission, as it engages members in three transformative experiences for their minds, bodies and souls. First, 20 Latino clergy and laity gathered June 8 at the …
Doing small things with great love
Shores of Grace Philadelphia “Not all of us can do great things,” said Mother Teresa, “but we can do small things with great love.” With vastly increased funding and policing, Philadelphia’s new mayor is beginning to do great things in …
Beth Stroud returns to FUMCOG a reinstated Elder
‘We Don’t Know How’ Thanks to her reinstatement by clergy members of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference May 21, the Rev. Dr. Irene Elizabeth “Beth” Stroud can preach and serve Holy Communion as an Elder again. She did so for the …
Go deeper this summer at the next 2024 Laity Academy
Have you been hearing a quiet whisper, or maybe a not-so-subtle shout for you to take the next step in discipleship? The Laity Academy Summer Session II, scheduled for August 2-3, at Eastern University’s Palmer Theological Seminary in St. Davids, …
Camp’s suburban farm feeds urban families
The Carson Simpson Farm Christian Center is located in suburban Hatboro, PA. Since he arrived as its director in 2020, Jonathan Curtis always wondered about that odd name because it didn’t have a farm. Well, now it does…albeit a small …
Celebrating a new class of transformational leaders
Lay and clergy leaders from across the Eastern PA Conference gathered June 2 at Bickley’s New Beginning United Methodist Church in Philadelphia to celebrate the 2024 class of new Certified Lay Ministers, serving in three EPA districts. This cohort of …